Hacking

Hacking

Silk Road 2 Loses Over $2.6 Million in Bitcoins in Alleged Hack

Customers are furious after black market drugs site Silk Road 2 says it lost their coins to hackers.

Policy & regulation  ·  13 February 2014
Exchanges

Charity Boss Suspects Stolen Coins Were Used in 180 BTC Donation

Bitcoin100's director suspects a large donation may have come from an exchange hack, but it's impossible to be sure.

Policy & regulation  ·  5 February 2014
Bitcoin

CoinTerra Battles With Performance Issues and Security Breach

CoinTerra’s TerraMiner IV units are about 20% slower and consume 20% more power than originally promised.

Tech  ·  3 February 2014
Hacking

Are Passwords Robust Enough to Protect Your Bitcoins?

Security is a cat-and-mouse game between those protecting systems, and those breaking them: passwords are no exception.

Policy & regulation  ·  9 January 2014
Bitcoin

5 Security Tips for Bitcoin Beginners

Bitcoin makes transferring your money incredibly easy, but that ease comes with certain risks.

Business  ·  28 December 2013
Hacking

Telegram Offers $200k in Bitcoin for Cracking its Encrypted Messages

Telegram is offering a $200,000 prize in bitcoin to anyone who manages to beat its encryption protocol.

Tech  ·  20 December 2013
Bitcoin

Merge Avoidance: Privacy Enhancing Techniques in the Bitcoin Protocol

Bitcoin Core Developer Mike Hearn discusses privacy leaks and a new technique that he has named 'merge avoidance'.

Tech  ·  16 December 2013
Hacking

Bitcoin Talk Hacked Again, Members Urged to Change Passwords

BitcoinTalk was recently hacked, and the administrators have posted a note regarding the possibility of compromised passwords.

Policy & regulation  ·  3 December 2013
Bitcoin

Directory.io Prank Proves Bitcoin Protocol’s Strength

A website that listed bitcoin private keys with corresponding public addresses has been revealed as a prank.

Tech  ·  2 December 2013
Exchanges

Polish Bitcoin Exchange Bidextreme.pl Hacked, Bitcoin and Litecoin Wallets Emptied

Polish bitcoin exchange Bidextreme.pl has been hacked and its customers’ bitcoin and litecoin wallets emptied.

Policy & regulation  ·  20 November 2013
Bitcoin

Hackers steal $1.2 Million of bitcoins from Inputs.io, a supposedly secure wallet service

Approximately $1.2m worth of bitcoin have been stolen from a wallet service intended to be high-security.

Policy & regulation  ·  7 November 2013
Hacking

Crowdcurity brings crowdsourced hacker testing to bitcoin

Crowdcurity wants to reward those who find security holes in bitcoin sites.

Business  ·  16 October 2013
Hacking

BitcoinTalk forum hacked by ‘The Hole Seekers’

Popular digital currency forum BitcoinTalk has been hacked by a group calling themselves "The Hole Seekers".

Policy & regulation  ·  3 October 2013
Bitcoin

Raspberry Pi-powered briefcase converts loose change into bitcoin

The Defcon hacker conference saw bitcoin being sold via a briefcase, where loose change was exchanged for QR codes.

Business  ·  8 August 2013
Hacking

Here come the geeks, and this time they’re rich

Bitcoin is due to change the face of finance, but could have interesting social effects too, according to a leading security researcher.

Markets  ·  13 May 2013