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A dusting attack or dust attack is an attack on a cryptocurrency wallet that sends tiny amounts of cryptocurrency (known as "dust") to that wallet in order to uncover the identity of the wallet's owner. [1] Information can then be used to obstruct receiving legitimate payments [2] or phishing scams. [1]
GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform, suddenly shut down on 26 October 2013; subscribers, unable to log in, lost up to $5 million worth of bitcoin. [55] In late February 2014 Mt. Gox , one of the largest virtual currency exchanges, filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo amid reports that bitcoins worth US$350 million had been stolen. [ 56 ]
BitConnect was described as an open source, all-in-one bitcoin and crypto community platform but was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. 2018 KodakCoin: Kodak and WENN Digital Ethash [84] KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs. Petro: Venezuelan Government: onixCoin [85 ...
A Miami man is facing charges after authorities said he teamed up with a California man in a scam to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency. ... peel chains,” pass-through wallets ...
A woman reported that a person, using the voice of a Rutherford County Sheriff's Deputy, scammed her into paying $7,500 into a bitcoin account.
From January 2017 to September 2018, the amount of tethers outstanding grew from about $10 million to about $2.8 billion. In early 2018, Tether accounted for about 10% of the trading volume of bitcoin, but during the summer of 2018, it accounted for up to 80% of bitcoin volume. [25] More than $500 million of Tether was issued in August 2018 ...
A fraudulent bitcoin advertising scheme that attracted thousand of victims with unauthorized celebrity images has been traced back to Russia, according to The Guardian.
The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoin, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen.[1]In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein that contained addresses and private keys associated with the stolen funds. [3]