Hardware Wallets

How to Best Protect Your Money From Hackers as Crypto Markets Boom

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Time Stamp: November 2, 2021 7:13 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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“I got hacked and don’t even know how it happened,” mourned one crypto user on Twitter. “I left my wallet open in my browser on MetaMask and they got into my wallet. Lost all saitama, floki and hokk.”Sponsored Sponsored A small crypto investor, @ltjyaussie says he has always been careful with wallet security issues but did not know what hit him this time around. The Cyprus-based investor was a victim of a systematic attack. Against all his perceived defenses, he still got taken for a ride. He’s just one of

EOS Price Prediction 2021, 2025, 2030

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Time Stamp: July 25, 2021 3:00 AM - Modified On: July 25, 2021 - Published By:
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What is EOS? EOS is one of the best-known cryptocurrencies today that allows building decentralized apps (DApps) in a simple and scalable way. EOS cryptocurrency was developed by a company called Block.one. Founded by software programmer Daniel Larimer and entrepreneur Brendan Blumer, who still hold the roles of CTO and CEO, the company began to work on the project in 2017. In June of 2018, the EOS officially went live after a year-long Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The ICO raised more than $4 billion, despite the prohibition to participate from

Message by LEDGER’s CEO – Update on the July data breach. Despite the leak, your crypto assets are safe.

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Time Stamp: December 21, 2020 12:49 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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12/21/2020 | Blog posts, Security Dear Ledger clients, As you know, Ledger was targeted by a cyberattack that led to a data breach in July 2020. Yesterday, we were informed about the dump of the content of a Ledger customer database on Raidforum. We believe this to be the contents of our e-commerce database from June 2020. At the time of the incident, in July, we engaged an external security organisation to conduct a forensic review of the logs available. This review of the logs enabled us to confirm that

Massive Ledger Data Leak Increases SIM Swapping Threat

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Time Stamp: December 21, 2020 2:10 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has suffered another massive data breach for the second time this year. The exposure of thousands of clients’ personal information has increased the threat of SIM swapping as an attack vector. For the second time this year, personal data from Ledger wallet buyers has been dumped online. The leak was posted by several members of the crypto community who found files allegedly containing the ‘full database’ of Ledger customers containing emails, phone numbers, and even physical addresses. Ledger Data Leaked (Again) Ledger played down the data

Efforce (WOZX): Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s Cryptocurrency

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Time Stamp: December 12, 2020 10:52 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Every so often a cryptocurrency is released that makes you a do a double take. Efforce (WOZX) is certainly one of those cryptocurrencies. Efforce was founded by world famous Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and WOZX cryptocurrency token went from a price of 10 cents USD to over 3$USD in its first days on the market. In just the first 13 minutes of trading, WOZX had an unrealized market cap of 950 million USD.Although this price action made the headlines both inside and outside of the cryptocurrency space, it seems that

Ethereum Classic Under Multiple 51% Attacks | Bitcoin News Summary Aug 10, 2020

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 1:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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 Ethereum Classic has suffered its second 51% attack in less than a week, bringing the ongoing security of the network into question. During the attack, the offending miner managed to double-spend $5.6 million worth of ETC after spending only $200,000 to acquire the hash power for the attack. The ETC team was advising its clients to halt interactions with the network while corrective steps were taken. The US branch of global cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has halted all trading and orders following an incident. CEO Catherine Coley tweeted, “Your funds

Mobile DeFi and the Shift Toward Self-Sovereignty

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 1:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Many speculate that mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency is dependent solely on improving ease of access and user experience. In reality, there’s an even bigger obstacle: a mentality shift. Self-sovereignty and personal autonomy are the endgame of this technology, and with that goal comes a significant increase in personal responsibility for one’s funds. This is totally at odds with people’s traditional financial experience so far; the legacy system takes away your autonomy and replaces it with convenience, offering useful tools related to fraud protection and password management. By comparison, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance