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Justin Sun offers 5% bounty as Poloniex losses cross $100 million

The Tron founder said Poloniex hackers have seven days to return a bulk of the funds in exchange for a white hat bounty or law enforcement would be engaged for a remedy. Justin Sun provided three wallet addresses to which hackers could transfer the stolen funds. Sun also added that an internal investigation was underway and affected assets would be fully reimbursed as the platform maintains a “healthy financial position”. We are offer ing a 5% white hat bounty to the Poloniex hacker. Please return the funds to the following ETH/TRX/BTC wallets. We will give you 7 days to consider this offer before we engage law enforcement. ETH Wallet: 0x176F3DAb24a159341c0509bB36B833E7fdd0a132 TRX:… — H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@justinsuntron) November 10, 2023 Blockchain security firm PeckShield alerted community members to outflows from Poloniex hot wallets on Nov. 10. As crypto.news reported, the losses were initially estimated at around $33 million but this number was later updated to over ...

Atani secures $6 million in funding for its new crypto broker

On October 24, the Spanish crypto FinTech startup Atani announced the successful closing of a $6 million investment round. The funding round has been spearheaded by Cometa, a venture capital fund based in Mexico, and has seen participation from JME Ventures, Conexo Ventures, and CDTI, as well as a group of knowledgeable business angels specializing in Web3, including Neil Cunha-Gomes, who serves as the Head of FinTech and Crypto for EMEA at Softbank as per the latest information shared with Finbold. Atani is the crypto currency broker where over 300,000 investors may buy and sell any crypto currency. Safely trade thousands of tokens on the best exchanges in the world, do in-depth market research, and keep track of their holdings with just one account. Established in 2019, and it already has regulatory license from the Bank of Spain, as a Virtual Assets Service Provider, services customers from over 200 countries, and handles over $1.5 billion in trade volume every month. With thi...

BitBoy Crypto holds $80 million in XRP, yet asks community for donations

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Ben Armstrong, also known as ‘BitBoy Crypto’, has recently become entangled in a lawsuit against his former partners from HIT Network, regarding assets seizure that were registered under their company’s name, but Armstrong claims belong to him. The former BitBoy Crypto employee is now asking for donation s from the crypto community using emotional videos sharing his story, and on September 21, he shared a multi- million aire XRP address, in response to supposed requests for a donation address by the XRP community . “Several people have asked about an $XRP donation address for my legal fund (…) XRP Address: ‘rJmXYcKCGJSayp4sAdp6Eo4CdSFtDVv7WG’ (…) Thanks for the support”. — Ben Armstrong (@BenArmstrongsX) Source: Ben Armstrong (@BenArmstrongsX) Thousands of dollars in XRP were already sent in the last 24 hours to the given Ben Armstrong address, with lots of these payments being from known centralized exchange accounts. Payments history from “rJmXY…Vv7WG”. Source: ...

YouTuber finds abandoned mansion and Bitcoin mine of 'crypto millionaire'

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An urban explorer says they have discovered a crypto million aire’s $4.2 million abandoned mansion that Features a derelict basement suited for Bitcoin mining and a room filled with boxes of unused protective medical equipment.  YouTuber Freaktography uploaded the exploration video of the abandoned mansion in late July. He claimed a “crypto king” once lived there after discovering a garage basement with boxes of graphics cards and cooling fans strewn across the floor, lines of shelving suited for computers, and multi-foil insulation covering the windows.  The garage above the supposed abandoned Bitcoin mine is padlocked shut from the inside whilst the entire mansion is also boarded up. Freaktography says, “Whoever owns this place has made it completely inaccessible, even to themselves.” Piles of boxes of unused face masks and disposable medical gowns have been left behind (via Freaktography). The unknown crypto milllionaire’s abandoned mansion includes a la...

Crypto Prime Brokerage FPG Halts Withdrawals After Suffering a $15 million Cyber Attack

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Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Floating Point Group (FPG), an institutional trading desk that specializes in cryptocurrencies, reported having suffered a cyber attack that caused it to lose over $15 million in cryptocurrency on Sunday. FPG Falls Victim to Cyberattack, Freezing Operations Barely six months ago, FPG announced that it had engaged an external auditor , Prescient Assurance, for a series of cybersecurity audits and penetration testing and was able to successfully earn a SOC 2 certification.  For a thorough cyber security audit of FPG’s FlowVault platform, the company also worked with CertiK, a pioneer in blockchain security, to conduct high-level audits. FPG was planning to make the audit results public for independent verification via Certik’s website once they were finished.  While hacks and breaches have become relatively common occurrences in the crypto industry, FPG was not expecting it having don...