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Hackers Who Hijacked Mt. Gox CEO’s Blog Tricked People into Installing Bitcoin Stealer

14

Mar

2014

Last week, hackers breached and defaced the blog of Mark Karpeles, the CEO of the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. They claimed to have exposed Karpeles lies about hundreds of thousands of customer Bitcoins being stolen. However, experts say the attackers had a different agenda. The hackers published a post on the CEOs blog with a […]

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MtGox Faced 150,000 Attacks Per Second: Report

11

Mar

2014

TOKYO – Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday. The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and admitted that it has lost half a billion dollars in the digital currency, […]

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Are Bitcoin exchanges just Nigerian scam emails for gullible nerds?

04

Mar

2014

The next time the deposed prince of Nigeria has a massive inheritance to send you, will he offer to give it to you in Bitcoins? Cornell associate computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer has written a lengthy post that details why we shouldn’t believe bankrupt Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox’s official explanations for how it lost nearly […]

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