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Title: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: CryptoGirl on December 30, 2017, 01:14:22 PM

1. CoinDash ICO Hack
A hacker changed the address, causing donations worth $10 million to go to an unknown party.

2. Parity Wallet Bug
A bug was found in its multi-signature wallets, compromising several companies’ ICO fundraisers. Resulting in at least 150,000 ethers being stolen from user accounts. At the time, the ethers were worth roughly $30 million, but they're worth closer to $105 million as of mid-December.

3. Enigma Project Scam
Blockchain startup Enigma saw its website, mailing lists and an administrator account on its Slack channel compromised when fraudsters launched a fake token pre-sale in August, defrauding potential investors of more than 1,500 ethers.

4. Parity Wallet Freeze
A Parity user accidentally found a bug in the software code, freezing more than $275 million in ether.

5. Tether Token Hack
Tether claimed that roughly $31 million’ worth of tokens were taken from their virtual treasury and sent to an unknown bitcoin address.

6. Bitcoin Gold Scam
Shortly after the launch of a bitcoin fork called bitcoin gold, some bitcoin users had their cryptocurrency wallets drained after using a service seemingly endorsed by the project's #DevelopmentTeam , marketed as a way to authenticate whether a user was eligible for bitcoin gold funds, the website’s operators instead stole more than $3 million in bitcoin, bitcoin gold, ethereum and litecoin.

7. NiceHash Hack
NiceHash reported being hacked early in December, later confirming that about 4,700 in bitcoin was stolen. At the time, that was worth approximately $78 million.

8. EtherDelta DNS hijack
Late in December, an attack on Etherdelta DNS allowed hackers to redirect users into a fake website, which led to the theft of an unknown amount of Ethereum and ERC20 tokens.

Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: abdmuiz on January 22, 2018, 11:48:22 AM
a hacker does have many ways to break through the current security system (ftp://security system)
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Wasure on January 31, 2018, 04:56:37 PM
Holy crypto. I just withdrew my tokens from etherdelta right before that happened (which I was trying to do for several weeks). I guess I actually do have some luck for a change.
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: skillerx23 on February 12, 2018, 04:14:09 AM
Holy Hackers Is it possible to keep cryto and blockchain away from hacking?
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: CryptoZenWorld on July 01, 2018, 07:01:18 PM
Holy Hackers Is it possible to keep cryto and blockchain away from hacking?

In my personal opinion, hacking is everywhere. We can't prevent it if we don't stay alert. We need to know how to become safe. and for safety always need to use useful tools and techniques.
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Paha87 on August 16, 2018, 08:28:28 PM
Scammers everywhere, how to protect them? A good question I think, from whom what opinion?
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
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Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Altcoins_letsgetit on February 24, 2019, 05:31:39 PM
2017 was a new start for the whole crypto industry, but now it's finally going up
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Bega482 on November 13, 2019, 12:09:49 PM
I just withdrew my tokens from etherdelta right before that happened (which I was trying to do for several weeks). I guess I actually do have some luck for a change.
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Uina on November 17, 2019, 02:03:27 PM
I can't remember if I have some tokens on Etherdelta as the only exchange I have now is Binance.
Sadly, we can't really avoid hacking as those evil ones will do everything they can to penetrate any security system just to get money. The only thing we can do for now is to strengthen the security so they can't easily access the system.
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: btcto200k on November 18, 2019, 02:20:23 PM
Oh man, oh man. People should really consider improving their security.
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
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Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Goodcat49 on January 19, 2020, 11:30:18 PM
Hi there, why not to make the 2019 review now then?
Title: Re: 2017 in Review: Blockchain & Crypto Hacks & Scams & Attacks
Post by: Anna Larina on May 04, 2020, 07:10:16 AM
Kind of a long retrospective, maybe we can predict smth by analyzing those situations.
But yep, so many things happened since then.
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