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ForkLog 8 18.08.2021

Angarsk suspects detained in mining-equipment theft

Police in Angarsk have detained four suspects in the theft of cryptocurrency mining equipment.

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ForkLog 9 17.08.2021

Saint Petersburg resident’s iPhone stolen and cryptocurrency withdrawn worth 1.5 million rubles

A resident of Saint Petersburg reported to the police a theft of his phone and subsequent theft of funds, including cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 13 17.08.2021

Data on organizers and users of a drug-trafficking forum put up for sale in bitcoins

An unknown hacker breached a major CIS drug-trafficking forum, Legalizer, and published data on the platform's organizers and users.

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ForkLog 11 16.08.2021

Poly Network offers $500,000 bounty for vulnerability discoveries

The Poly Network developers announced the launch of a bounty programme to find bugs in the protocol’s core functions.

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ForkLog 10 16.08.2021

Imprisoned drug dealer charged with laundering funds via Bitcoin

U.S. authorities charged Maryland resident Ryan Faras, who was convicted of drug trafficking via the dark web, with laundering funds through cryptocurrency while in prison. The Baltimore Sun reports.

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ForkLog 10 16.08.2021

T-Mobile Opens Probe Into Potential Data Leak Affecting 100 Million Users

T-Mobile has begun assessing the situation after a post on one of the hacker forums about the sale of data belonging to 100 million users.

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ForkLog 14 13.08.2021

Poly Network unveils plan to reimburse users after breach

Poly Network developers published a roadmap for reimbursing users affected by the recent breach.

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ForkLog 33 13.08.2021

Cybercriminals Have Built a Service to Check ‘Dirty’ Bitcoin

Researchers at analytics firm Elliptic discovered a dark-web service that allows checking potential links between Bitcoin addresses and criminal activity.

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ForkLog 14 13.08.2021

Russia ranks fourth globally in total losses from hacker attacks

In 2020 Russians lost $15.2 billion due to cybercrime attacks. This is the fourth-highest figure worldwide in terms of losses after the United States — $28 billion, Brazil — $26 billion and the United Kingdom — $17.4 billion.

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ForkLog 17 13.08.2021

Poly Network hacker rejects $500,000 bounty for return of funds

The developers of Poly Network offered the hacker who stole $611 million a $500,000 bounty for returning the funds. The hacker declined the bounty.

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ForkLog 16 13.08.2021

Scammers have begun advertising ‘morgentokens’ on behalf of Morgenshtern

Several sites have appeared online promoting tokens allegedly on behalf of the rapper Morgenshtern.

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ForkLog 22 12.08.2021

Poly Network hacker returns all stolen funds except USDT

The Poly Network hacker has reimbursed the project all stolen funds except $33 million in USDT, which Tether froze after the attack.

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