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The top crypto hacks


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There are a lot of hackers gained much by hacking big companies. I want to share tops cyrpto hacks of all time starting with

 Tether, $30.9 Million, November 19, 2017

On November 19, an external attacker  accessed to a Tether Treasury Wallet and siphoned off $30.9 million in tokens.

The hacker used a Bitcoin address for the transaction, so the theft was basically irreversible.

Ethereum, $31 Million, July 20, 2017

 A hacker got $31 million (153,037 ETH) out of three very large wallets, which belonged to Swarm City. Hacker managed to change the ownership of the wallets by exploiting a parity-enhanced, multi-signature vulnerability.

NiceHash, 4,736.42 BTC, December 6, 2017

There had been a high-profile cyber-attack on the mining service which revealed that a wallet with 4,736.42 BTC had been hijacked.

Bitfinex, 119,756 BTC, August 4, 2016

On August 4, unknown people stole about 119,756 Bitcoin from customer accounts. Thiefs took coins from customers’ wallets, despite the presence of multiple layers of security.

Mt. Gox, 744,408 BTC, June 19, 2011

The Mt. Gox hack led to the largest actual loss of BTC in history, A hacker (or group of hackers) purportedly accessed a computer belonging to one of the auditors, and exploited a security vulnerability to access Mt. Gox’s servers. The hacker(s) then changed the nominal value of the Bitcoin to 1 cent.

Read more: Top 5 Cryptocurrency Hacks of All Time | 99Bitcoins

 

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36 minutes ago, kurian said:

You forgot Hufflepuff?? For us on PD he's still a mystery. 

Yeah. That Hufflepuff is still a legend. I want to see it in the news that all bitcoin accounts were hacked and put on one BTC address. Sounds great hacker if that happen. 

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