List of major credit card #theft and fraud incidents
on 02016-08-03The #Bitfinex CFTC settlement where they agreed to switch from cold #Bitcoin wallets to multisig, paving the way for the massive #theft two months later.
on 02016-08-03The massive #Bitfinex #theft was facilitated by CFTC regulations requiring them to stop using cold wallets; they lost nearly 1% of all #Bitcoin, about US$67M worth last I checked, although Ⓑ dropped 20% immediately from US$600 to US$480 before recovering to US$570 the next day, making it difficult to fix the value of the loss with much certainty.
on 02016-08-03the Democratic National Committee email leak that forced Deborah Wasserman Schultz to resign as the DNC chairwoman was probably email stolen by crackers from #Russia, not leaked by insiders, or stolen by a Bulgarian, as “Guccifer 2.0” claims he is. #theft #security
on 02016-07-24“it’s 2016 and there’s killer robots with C-4 on the streets, 3-D printed sea-slug drones in the water, the drinking water is poisoned, school is a prison pipeline” about how a friend of theirs got their Twitter account stolen by some teenage boy and then persuaded him to give it back. #theft
on 02016-07-21How pirates and crackers worked together to on a #theft of millions of dollars in #diamonds: copying bills of lading over internet connection to the #shipping company’s CMS and tracking the ships in real time with GPS #security
on 02016-03-18