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How to Protect Yourself From This Massive Ongoing Cryptocurrency Hack — lifehacker.com
It seems no sooner does someone come up with a method to keep your digital data safe than hackers find a way to subvert it. Today's case in point: Bad actors have stolen more than $130 million in cryptocurrency from users of offline hardware wallets,
BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement — theintercept.com
A political activist serving the longest federal prison sentence of any 2020 Black Lives Matter protester was transferred without warning to a detention facility thousands of miles away from their supporters and attorney. Malik Muhammad’s transfer from the
How Firms Like Coinbase Are Building Coding Agents to Complement Anthropic's Claude Code — theinformation.com
Coinbase and some other tech-savvy firms such as Shopify and Ramp have built their own AI coding agents for internal use, giving their employees an alternative to pricey options from firms like Anthropic and OpenAI. Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange,
Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets — techcrunch.com
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain monitoring firms.
‘This is insider trading by definition’: Trump sells $100,000 monthly subscription service to Wall Street to further monetize the presidency — fortune.com
Donald Trump has created a way for Wall Street to pay to win. Trump Media & Technology Group’s premium data product, released its new subscription service for earlier access to Truth Social posts for $100,000 a month. According to reports, five Wall Street
Capital One had 300 Trump accounts — then its money-laundering team stepped in — fortune.com
Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend. The court filing is tied to a lawsuit
Wall Street finds new edge behind Trump's presidential paywall — axios.com
Data: Financial Modeling Prep, Binance; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals For years, Truth Social was President Trump's money-losing megaphone. Now his company is charging Wall Street up to $1.2 million a year for a split-second edge on posts that can — and
A $116 million bitcoin theft: hackers break into one of the safest places to store cryptocurrencies — elpais.com
Forty-one minutes is all the time it took for hackers to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin from one of the systems considered the safest in the world to store cryptocurrency: cold wallets (a crypto wallet that does not connect to the internet and
FBI Agent Allegedly Turns Himself in for $1 Million Crypto Theft — bloomberg.com
An FBI agent has allegedly turned himself in for stealing about $1 million in cryptocurrency from foreigners the agency was investigating.
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