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Binance Security Incident: Withdrawal Status, Timeline and FAQs
Binance's incident timeline and FAQ: it says customer funds are safe, while recovery and losses remain unclear.
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Binance Hit by Largest Suspected AI-Assisted Crypto Exploit on Record With $5.8B in Outflows and Exchange-Wide Withdrawal Freeze
Reports a suspected AI-assisted exploit of Binance with $5.8B in outflows and a withdrawal freeze; attribution is unverified.
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Bitcoin Price Slides Below $79,000 as Binance Loses $5.8 Billion in Massive Hack
Suspected Binance hack of up to $5.8B drove BTC below $79,000, with Tether and Circle freezing $1.8 to $2.4B in stablecoins.
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Tampered Ledger reported in Singapore a month before news broke: Asia Express
Singapore police say tampered Ledger devices began appearing there on September 10, a month before the story broke; South Korea may delay its crypto tax law again.
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WirexOne Visa Card Security Vulnerability
Users report Wirex's forced migration to WirexOne removed PIN-change on Visa cards, raising a card security concern worth checking.
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Binance-linked wallets move $2.77B as hack fears hit crypto markets
Onchain data shows $2.77B leaving Binance-linked wallets across five chains, a key fact in the unfolding exchange hack.
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Binance Says User Funds Are ‘Completely Safe’ After $3.5 Billion Drains From Its Hot Wallets
Unchained counts about $3.5B leaving Binance-labeled Ethereum wallets, against Binance's claim that user funds are completely safe.
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Singapore Police Link S$3.5 Million in Losses to Ledger Wallets Bought From Local Stores
Singapore police link S$3.5M in losses to Ledger wallets bought from local retailers, with preliminary findings of malicious hardware inside some devices.
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Binance hit by $5.8B hack as Tether and Circle freeze billions
Binance is investigating a multibillion-dollar hot wallet breach, with Tether and Circle freezing over $2.36B in stablecoins; the figures are still shifting.
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Tether Says It Froze Over 1.567B USDT Linked to Suspected Binance Hack
Tether says it froze over 1.567B USDT tied to the suspected Binance hack, but frozen funds are not automatically recovered.
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How Wallet Permissions Linked Two Accounts in the Suspected Binance Hack
Records show delegated code on Binance 14 could move its own assets and control another wallet, a key clue in the suspected hack; how the permission was obtained is unknown.
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Polymarket Resumes Trading, Vows to Reimburse Traders After Third-Party Provider Compromise
Polymarket resumed trading after a third-party provider compromise, with outside estimates of $2.2M to $2.65M in losses and a reimbursement pledge.
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Bubblemaps Traces $2.7 Million Outflow From Polymarket Breach
Bubblemaps traced about $2.7M of outflows from the Polymarket breach, and Polymarket has pledged full reimbursement and resumed trading.
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Polymarket suspends trading after third-party breach leads to user losses
Polymarket halted trading after a third-party provider breach drained user accounts; a security incident worth tracking.
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SEC Charges BG Wealth and DSJ Exchange in Alleged $130 Million Crypto Fraud
SEC charges BG Wealth and DSJ Exchange over an alleged $130M crypto fraud that lost investors over $100M.
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Polymarket Hit by Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Third-Party Script Found Draining Portfolios and Wallets (At Least $800k+ Stolen. FULL ANALYSIS)
Polymarket users were drained via a compromised third-party monitoring script, with at least $800k reported stolen; Polymarket halted trading.
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India's ED Announces Searches in $524 Million Crypto Transfer Probe
India's ED announces searches in a $524 million crypto transfer probe, naming Binance and Bybit as platforms used for alleged foreign payouts without charges against either.
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Polymarket Probes Suspicious Israeli Election Trades
Polymarket is investigating suspicious Israeli election trades, with some accounts cashing out over $100K.
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Crypto Launderers Behind North Korea’s Fake Workers
Treasury sanctioned ten people and an entity, including two Russian crypto middlemen, for laundering proceeds of North Korean fake IT worker schemes.
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New quantum model slashes hardware needed to break bitcoin keys by 17 times
Alice & Bob's new model cuts the hardware needed to break bitcoin keys by 17 times, raising urgency for quantum-resistant security.
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A Subexponential Time Algorithm for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm
A GitHub write-up claims a subexponential algorithm for elliptic curve discrete logarithms; the claim is extraordinary and needs expert checking before anyone relies on it.
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Someone lost $50,059 to address poisoning on Oct 28. In the week before, every new entry in their wallet history was fake
Address poisoning drained $50,059 USDT after 48 fake look-alike wallet entries appeared in the victim's history the week before.
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Chainalysis traces North Korean crypto cash-outs through Garantex
Chainalysis traces North Korean cash-outs through Garantex, a useful look at laundering routes after sanctions.
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Solana wallet Solflare pledges to pay missed rewards on staked $160 million after validator goes offline
Solflare will pay missed rewards on about 1.56M SOL staked through a validator that went offline, and has not named the firm holding its keys.
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Bitcoin Core Skips Usual Embargo to Disclose Three Bugs an AI Scan Found
Bitcoin Core disclosed three bugs found by an AI scan, skipping the usual embargo because they were classed as easily discoverable.
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Wagyu Confirms Data Leak Exposing Monero Swap Records
Hudson Rock found 4,580 Wagyu swap orders linking public-chain deposits, Monero destinations and client IP addresses, confirming a data leak at the Monero swap service.
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AI found a way to crash bitcoin nodes on Windows and Macs. It's now public
Three Bitcoin Core node-crash flaws found by a language-model scan are now public, the first disclosed under Core's new rules for easy-to-find bugs.
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Security failure at Indian certificate firm bites Ethereum as developers rush out fixes
A certificate-issuer key error at eMudhra let some Ethereum Teku and Besu setups trust forged certificates; developers are rushing out fixes, though default mainnet nodes were not exposed.
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Tampered Ledger wallets cost Singapore users $2.7M: Police
Singapore police report at least $2.7M in losses from tampered Ledger wallets, with earlier cases than Ledger's public alert.
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zkLink Nova Bridge Exploit Drains About $779,000 in One Transaction
A zkLink Nova bridge exploit drained about $779,000 via a forged batch root, and the Ethereum escrow still showed unpaused.