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Covington & Burling has agreed to disclose to the SEC the names of six clients whose information may have been exposed in a cyberattack on the law firm, ending a broader legal battle with the agency over its client list. The US Securities and Exchange Commission had originally asked the court to intervene in a […]
Suspected North Korean Lazarus Crypto Hack Came From Fake Job Offer – Bloomberg
In late July, a programmer at Estonia’s CoinsPaid, the world’s biggest crypto payment provider, met over video link with a recruiter who had reached out on LinkedIn with a lucrative job offer. During the 40-minute job interview, the engineer was asked to download a file to take a technical test, which he did on his […]
Kevin Rose’s NFT Wallet With 40 High-Value Collectibles Hacked
Kevin Rose, CEO and co-founder of non-fungible token (NFT) collective Proof, tweeted on Wednesday that his personal wallet had been hacked. In a tweet, Rose advised his 1.6 million followers to avoid buying any Chromie Squiggles, a generative art NFT project by Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon, aka Snowfro. Source: Kevin Rose’s NFT Wallet With […]
Crypto Hack Lawsuits Rise as Theft Victims Try Untested Claims
Lawsuits against cryptocurrency exchanges, digital wallet providers, and mobile service companies following cyberattacks reached a new high in 2022, as hacking victims increasingly test unproven legal claims to recoup their crypto losses. At least 50 individual lawsuits and proposed class actions have been brought since 2017 by victims—and occasionally companies—against entities they blame for failing […]
FTX Bankruptcy: US DOJ Probes How $372 Million Vanished in Hack After Filing – Bloomberg
Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours after the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last month. The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the stolen assets that is separate from the fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a […]
Back From the Hack
Evil robo-computer hackers mess with Securities Docket but are defeated by forces of good.