The cryptocurrency exchange BigONE has admitted to a cyberattack on the digital deposits it manages, in which Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other tokens worth a total of US$27 million were stolen. However, the operators assure that no private keys or user data were affected. In addition, the crypto exchange is taking responsibility and will reimburse affected
Three of Donald Trump’s sons have reacted sharply to the announcement by one of their father’s business partners that an official cryptocurrency wallet for the US president is to be published. Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and, unusually, even Barron Trump declared within minutes on the short messaging service X on Tuesday that their family
Due to “worrying developments” in the use of cryptocurrency ATMs, an Australian authority responsible for combating financial crime has issued stricter rules for the devices. These special ATMs may now only be used to deposit or withdraw a maximum of 5,000 Australian dollars at a time. In addition, transactions must be better monitored and fraud
The savings banks’ online banking had to contend with massive disruptions on Sunday. The release of transactions with the S-pushTAN app failed. However, the problem is said to have been resolved meanwhile. The first reports appeared on the Allestörungen portal at around midnight, rising to more than 4,500 by midday on Sunday. Since then, the
Amazon’s cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest four billion US dollars to build its first data centers and other cloud infrastructures in Chile. This was announced by the South America Director of AWS, Juan Pablo Estévez, to the news agency Reuters. The new facilities, which will provide “significant” computing power for services
Alekesei Andriunin, founder of crypto market maker Gotbit, has pleaded guilty to market manipulation before a court in Boston. He received a comparatively lenient sentence for this. The prosecution accuses Andriunin and Gotbit of conspiracy, electronic fraud (“wire fraud”) and fraudulent manipulation of the cryptocurrency trading volume. In addition to Gotbit and Andriunin, Fedor Kedrov