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Looter Behind $61M Curve Hack Starts Returning Assets, Raising Hope for Recovery
4.8.2023
The exploited protocols offered a 10% bounty Thursday for returning the rest of the assets until the end f this week
Tech Entrepreneur Ilya Lichtenstein Admits to Masterminding $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist
4.8.2023
Tech entrepreneur Ilya Lichtensteind, a Russian-American citizen, has admitted to committing the original 2016 Bitfinex hack, CNBC reported.
Earlier, Lichtensteind and his wife Heather Morgan had confessed to attempting to launder $4.5 billion worth of Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex.
Until...
New York Man Admits to Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Hack From 2016, Pleads Guilty With Wife to Money Laundering
4.8.2023
In an unexpected revelation, Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, confessed to being the original hacker behind the 2016 cyberattack on crypto exchange Bitfinex, a theft that was once worth $4.5 billion. Lichtenstein made the admission while pleading guilty to laundering the stolen bitcoin in a Washington, D.C....
Curve, Metronome and Alchemix offering 10% bug bounty on Vyper hack
3.8.2023
The exploit on July 30 resulted in the theft of roughly $70 million in cryptocurrencies, bringing the bounty close to $7 million
Curve Price Prediction as Traders Fret About Possible Curve Finance Founder Liquidation – Where Next for CRV?
3.8.2023
Curve (CRV), the native token that powers the CurveDAO (a decentralized autonomous organization) and decentralized exchange (DEX) Curve Finance, is hovering about 3% higher on Thursday near $0.60, still down about 18.5% from its pre-Curve Finance hack highs in the $0.74 area....
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Individual charged with money laundering admits to hacking Bitfinex in 2016: Report
3.8.2023
The identity of the hacker or hackers behind an exploit which removed more than 100,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016 had only been the subject of speculation until Aug. 3
Curve emergency DAO terminates rewards for hack-related pools
2.8.2023
The Curve emergency DAO removed CRV rewards for alETH, msETH, pETH, crvCRVETH, Arbitrum Tricrypto, and multiBTC pools
Curve Debacle Triggers Transaction Frenzy, Sending Ethereum ‘MEV’ Rewards to Record High
31.7.2023
On July 30, over 6,000 ETH ($11M worth) in so-called Maximal Extractable Value rewards were paid out to Ethereum validators, the most ever for a single day
White Hat Hacker Recovers $5.4 Million For DeFi Platform Curve Finance Amid Recent Exploit
31.7.2023
An ethical hacker has recovered 2,879 ETH worth around $5.4 million for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance amid its recent hack losing over $47 million.
On July 30, the same day of the hack, it was reported that an ethical hacker seized some assets by front-running...
Crypto Hacks and Exploits Cost Traders $303M in July; Worst Month of 2023
31.7.2023
Some $52 million of assets were siphoned from Curve Finance just this weekend
Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit.
31.7.2023
Twitter accounts impersonating Curve Finance have also started to promote a fake refund scheme further targeting victims of the hack
Pro-XRP lawyer Jeremy Hogan’s scam tweet bonanza finally falls silent
28.7.2023
For the better part of the last four days, hackers used Hogan's account to promote fraudulent XRP giveaway scams
North Korea's Lazarus Group Suspected in $37 Million Hack on CoinsPaid
27.7.2023
North Korean hackers at the infamous Lazarus Group are suspected to be behind a $37 million attack on crypto payment system CoinsPaid.
The attack, which happened on July 22, successfully drained funds from the company’s own reserves, while customer deposits were unaffected, CoinsPaid said in...
Crypto payment gateway CoinsPaid suspects Lazarus Group in $37M hack
27.7.2023
CoinsPaid said it is now working with Estonian law enforcement and several blockchain security firms are assisting to minimize the impact of the July 22 exploit
Alphapo payment provider hack now estimated at over $60M — ZachXBT
25.7.2023
The on-chain sleuth ZachXBT claims to have found an additional $37 million in losses suffered from the unconfirmed attack
Era Lend on zkSync exploited for $3.4M in reentrancy attack
25.7.2023
The lending app was drained of funds using a “read-only reentrancy” bug, a type of vulnerability that is often difficult for auditors to spot
ZkSync's Largest Lender Struck by $3.4M Exploit
25.7.2023
EraLend, the largest lending protocol on Ethereum scaling blockchain zkSync, has been hit by a $3.4 million reentrancy attack, according to blockchain security firm CertiK
New York Couple Set to Plead Guilty in $4.5 Billion Bitcoin-Laundering Case
22.7.2023
A married New York couple is preparing to plead guilty to charges of conspiring to launder billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC), which was stolen during the notorious 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, who were charged in February last year after...
NY Couple to Forfeit Billions in Crypto and Cash in Plea Deal Over Bitfinex Hack Laundering Case
21.7.2023
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the New York-based couple implicated in the alleged laundering of $4.5 billion in bitcoin pilfered from the 2016 Bitfinex cyber-attack, have reached a plea bargain, as revealed by recent court records. The pair is scheduled to appear before U.S. judge Colleen...
'Razzlekhan,' Husband Make Plea Deal in Bitfinex Hack Laundering Case Worth Billions
21.7.2023
The pair will forfeit the proceeds from nearly 120,000 bitcoins they allegedly laundered from the hacked crypto exchange