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• 11:13, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Authereum Metatransactions Order (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/authereummetatransactionsorder.php}} thumb|AuthereumNow you can give access to your funds from anywhere with just a single username and password. A great feature for the average user who isn't the best at making secure passwords, operates often on computers which are public or contain malware, and often will use the same password for multiple accounts. Free yourself from the...")
• 11:13, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Authereum.jpg
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• 11:13, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page VBITEX Hacked (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/vbitexhacked.php}} thumb|VBITEXYou know you're dealing with a safe trading platform when different sites say it's based in different countries and there are no withdrawal fees listed. Unfortunately, this platform was breached and it appears that any users who had funds would have lost them. This didn't get much coverage, and there doesn't appear to be any record of how much wa...")
• 11:13, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Vbitex.jpg
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• 11:12, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Josh Jones' Crypto Stolen By Hamilton Teen (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/joshjonescryptostolenbyhamiltonteen.php}} Josh Jones left his funds on an exchange platform, secured through a two-factor authentication on a cell phone. The cell phone carrier was tricked into swapping the phone to another one by a 17 year old teen in Hamilton. Authorities eventually determined who the teen was when he (without employing any sort of privacy methods) spent some coins to buy a user...")
• 11:12, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BZx Fulcrum Flash Loan/Oracle Manipulation (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bzxdecentralizedlendingplatformattack.php}} thumb|BZxThis is really two separate attacks. In the first case, the hacker created a loan which had no collateral, and the company behind the smart contract (supposed to be decentralized) is taking responsibility for paying this loan over time. The second case was more serious, and involved exploiting an "oracle" or central infor...")
• 11:12, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Altsbit Hot Wallets Hacked (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/altsbithotwalletshacked.php}} thumb|AltsbitAltsbit was a relatively new cryptocurrency exchange based in Italy, which had just recently rebranded and launched a new trading API. On February 5th, 2020, they found that their hot wallets containing the majority of user funds were emptied. Due to their use of commas instead of periods when reporting the totals, clost to half of me...")
• 11:12, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Altsbit.jpg
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• 11:11, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page FCoin Collapses (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/fcoincollapses.php}} Whether people want to call something poor auditing or an exit scam, the end result is that investors lose their funds. Any model which deals with partial reserves, or is unaware of the reserve level, is subject to this risk. China (just like Canada) lacks any sort of solid regulatory framework for exchanges at all. It’s only fitting we should see yet another exchange collap...")
• 11:11, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Lightning Torch Theft (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/lightningtorchtheft.php}} thumb|LightningLighting is a payment network which allows instant and low cost bitcoin payments. The lightning torch was a proposal to keep passing the same funds around from person to person, with each intermediate hop picking the most trustworthy next person to take the torch. While most people behaved honestly, inevitably, in such a scheme, some...")
• 11:11, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Curve Drainable Hack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/curvedrainablehack.php}} thumb|Curve FinanceAn original version of the Curve Finance protocol had an exploit which would allow the protocol to be drained by an attacker. This was not exploited, but instead was caught before the contract was deployed. This is a global/international case not involving a specific country. == About Curve Finance == "Curve is a decentralized...")
• 11:10, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Curvefinance.jpg
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• 11:10, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BZx Fulcrum White Hack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bzxfulcrumwhitehacked.php}} thumb|BZxThe bZx Fulcrum smart contract hot wallet had a $2.5m vulnerability which was not exploited. After refusing to pay out a requested bounty, the team aimed to cover up the exploit. No funds were lost in this case. This is a global/international case not involving a specific country. == About BZx == "bZx (formerly known at b0x) was concei...")
• 11:10, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bzxfulcrum.jpg
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• 11:10, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Mark Cheng Kidnapped (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/markchengkidnapped.php}} thumb|NoneMark Cheng was a cryptocurrency consultant who lived in Singapore. He met with a friend at a hotel in Thailand for a business deal. When taking a cab, they stopped and he was forced to get into another vehicle. He was then allegedly drugged, beaten, and tortured for 12 hours, with a large ransom demanded. At the end of the ordeal, he gave u...")
• 11:10, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Markcheng.jpg
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• 11:09, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Malicious Chrome Extension HackedZec Theft (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgermaliciouschromeextensionhackedzectheft.php}} thumb|LedgerLedger, based in France, is on of the most popular manufacturers of Ledger hardware wallets. A malicious Ledger browser extension for Chrome was found at the number 1 spot, which requests the user's seed phrase and sends it to the extension creator, who then uses it to steal funds from users. At least one user lost...")
• 11:09, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Binance/Bitcoin Gold Double Spend Hack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/binancebitcoingolddoublespendhack.php}} 51% attacks are one attack that exchanges can hardly avoid - the only way is to have a slower withdrawal or insure against the losses. By adjusting their escrow period from 12 blocks to 20 blocks, Binance has increased the expense to repeat the attack from $1,200 to ~$2,000. Still, they are lucky at the minimal scale of the attack at this stage. This exchan...")
• 10:57, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Shitcoin Wallet Malicious JavaScript (Created page with "Test")
• 10:55, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Shitcoinwallet.jpg
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• 10:54, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Wallet Theft rytoke (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgerwallettheftrytoke.php}} thumb|LedgerThe Reddit user rytoke reports losing significant funds ffrom their Ledger wallet. Limited details are provided. No funds were recovered. This is a global/international case not involving a specific country. == About Ledger == "Based in France, Ledger is the largest cryptocurrency hardware wallet company." "Ledger is a hardware crypto...")
• 10:52, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page MetaMask Banned From Google Play (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/metamaskbannedfromgoogleplay.php}} thumb|MetaMaskThe MetaMask wallet application was again banned on Google Play at the end of December 2019. There were no reports of phishing versions of the application appearing in it's place this time, and no funds appear to have been taken from users. The application was reinstated around a week later. This is a global/international case...")
• 10:52, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BitClub Network Ponzi (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bitclubnetworkponzi.php}} thumb|BitClub NetworkThe Bitclub Network supposedly operated a large mining pool and sold different investment contracts for 5 years to investors, extracting profits of over $722m from participants. The system was widely known and trusted in the space. Unfortunately, the entire system was a ponzi scheme and no actual mining was done to generate...")
• 10:52, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bitclubnetwork.jpg
• 10:52, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Bitclubnetwork.jpg
• 10:52, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page RG Coins Shuts Down (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/rgcoinsshutsdown.php}} thumb|RG CoinsBulgaria has no plan for crypto-asset trading platforms, and this left the market wide open. Rossen Yosifov launched RG Coins, making a large portion of his profit from participation in a scheme to defraud Americans. This scheme encouraged Americans to pay upfront for vehicles and other valuables from people they'd never even met in person...")
• 10:51, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Rgcoins.jpg
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• 10:51, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Cloud Token Wallet Service (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/cloudtokenwalletservice.php}} While not an exchange platform, inherent transparency in trading platforms as the norm would go a long way to reduce scams like this. Easy registration for all cryptocurrency trading businesses can give consumers an easy way to check the legitimacy and backing level of any operation. This exchange or platform is based in Singapore, or the incident targeted people pri...")
• 10:51, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Vertcoin Attempted 51% Attack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/vertcoinattempted51attack.php}} thumb|VertcoinDespite upgrading to a new algorithm after their first attack, the Vertcoin blockchain fell under threat of another 51% attack. This attack appears to be intended to be used to double-spend against the Bittrex exchange. Since Bittrex closed their wallets prior to the attack, they avoided any loss. This is a global/international c...")
• 10:51, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page GateHub Privacy Breach (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/gatehubprivacybreach.php}} thumb|GateHubGateHub customers had their private information breached, which is suspected to have occurred as part of the June hacking event. (Though GateHub reported at the time that only a limited number of accounts were accessed.) As GateHub already asked their customers to change passwords after the June breach, the impact is limited to informati...")
• 10:50, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BitMEX Email Gaffe (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bitmexemailgaffe.php}} thumb|BitMEXAfter not releasing a global email to their entire customer base since 2017, Bitmex decided they would do the first one live, without any testing of their new script on a smaller email subset. The script was configured to send all emails in the "To" field instead of "Bcc" and sent emails in batches of 1,000. As a result, each customer received...")
• 10:50, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bitmex.jpg
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• 10:50, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Trezor Phishing Website (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/trezorphishingwebsite.php}} thumb|TrezorA Trezor user reports that they were tricked out of their funds through an attempt to upgrade their wallet software. Instead of visiting the Trezor website, they ended up clicking on Google Ads in the search results, which led them to a scam website. This scam website claimed their wallet was losing connection and they needed to enter the...")
• 21:25, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BitUSD Stablecoin Depegged (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bitusdstablecoindepegged.php}} thumb|BitUSDBitUSD was one of the first stablecoins to ever launch in July 21st, 2014. It was backed by collateral of BitShares tokens, which was a decentralized autonomous organization. The peg was lost on November 25th, 2018 and has never recovered since. There appear to be few active markets for the token. Stablecoins did not gain popularity un...")
• 21:25, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bitusd.jpg
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• 21:25, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page VinDAX Exchange Hacked (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/vindaxexchangehacked.php}} thumb|VinDAXVinDAX is a large exchange platform in Vietnam, serving mostly Asian customers with the largest contingent at the time in India. Their specialization was small-cap cryptocurrencies. On November 4th, 2019 (based on their Twitter post), it appears they noticed that a large number of coins (roughly $500,000 USD worth) had been withdrawn from...")
• 21:24, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Vindax.jpg
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• 21:24, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BeenTrade Fake Crypto Exchange (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/beentradefakecryptoexchange.php}} thumb|BeenTradeThe website BeenTrade claimed to be a cryptocurrency trading platform. In reality, it directly copied from the popular platform cex.io and allowed deposits but not withdrawals. Multiple users complained about losing funds there before the platform was shut down. This is a global/international case not involving a specific cou...")
• 21:24, 24 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Beentrade.jpg