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• 11:46, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Ethereumclassic.jpg
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Degens Money Degenerates (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/degensmoneydegenerates.php}} thumb|Degens MoneyThe Degens Money platform was experimental in nature and required users to click past a number of warnings, at which point they gave full access to their ethereum wallet (and any held ERC20 tokens) to the platform. Once connected up, there was no easy way to revoke the granted permissions. Users had to follow the set of instru...")
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Degensmoney.jpg
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Degensmoney.jpg
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Coinbase Sim Swapping Lawsuit (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/coinbasesimswappinglawsuit.php}} thumb|CoinbaseA New York resident was a regular Coinbase platform user, who protected their account using SMS-based two factor authentication. On August 26th, 2020, their mobile phone number was swapped over by their mobile phone carrier, Sprint. This allowed the attacker to reset their Coinbase password and gain entry into their account, and...")
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page BTC ERA Phishing Attack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/btceraphishingattack.php}} thumb|Bitcoin EraBitcoin Era is a trading tool which purports to allow for profitable cryptocurrency trading. As if the service weren't suspicious enough by claiming 99% success in transactions and marketing itself using celebrities, there were reports of phishing emails claiming to be from Bitcoin Era but actually from a separate scammer. Once th...")
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bitcoinera.jpg
• 11:45, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Bitcoinera.jpg
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Coinbit Seizure/Investigation (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/coinbitseizureinvestigation.php}} thumb|CoinbitCoinbit was a platform which was allegedly run by Choi, with reports of violently assaulting other staff, stealing from staff through extortion, and self-professing to have underworld gangster crime connections. There were two other executives who were unnamed and supposedly involved, however it's unclear the level of role they pl...")
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Coinbit.jpg
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Coinbit.jpg
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Chick Finance For Dinner (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/chickfinancefordinner.php}} thumb|Chick FinanceNot only was the Chick Finance team completely and deliberately anonymous, but they stored customer funds in a smart contract hot wallet which was deliberately backdoored in a very clever way. They were actually surprisingly honest on the site, stating there was no audit and to use the contract at your own risk. Using a clev...")
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Chickfinance.jpg
• 11:44, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Chickfinance.jpg
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page YFValue Exploit Found (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/yfvalueexploitfound.php}} thumb|Value DeFiIn this issue, YFValue (precursor to Value DeFi) almost loses access to a very large portion of liquid funds on the platform. They upgrade to a new platform, but some people still insist on using the old one. Some of those individuals who had their funds at threat, decide to extort the project in an attempt to recover the funds. The...")
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Valuedefi.jpg
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Valuedefi.jpg
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page CoinBerry ETransfer Glitch Fraud (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/coinberryetransferglitchfraud.php}} thumb|CoinBerryIn April 2020, CoinBerry reportedly made an update to their service which allowed customers to purchase bitcoin with what we can presume to be nothing more than starting an eTransfer process. It appears this was exploited all the way through to August 24th, 2020, when withdrawals were shut off for a period of 17 hours. Accor...")
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Coinberry.jpg
• 11:43, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Coinberry.jpg
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Upgrade Phishing Success Scorpic (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgerupgradephishingsuccessscorpic.php}} thumb|LedgerDetails are limited, but it appears that a user was tricked during the Ledger upgrade process into doing an action which compromised their wallet. While the user insists they did not enter their seed phrase, they may have been tricked into running a malicious transaction that gave the attacker access to the fund in their wa...")
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Bank of Tron Ponzi Contract (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bankoftronponzicontract.php}} thumb|Bank of TronBank of Tron operates as a smart contract which promises high returns to investors. However, there is no valid means of generating any profit, and so the scheme is doomed to eventually collapse when there is a shortage of new participants. It's unknown how much was lost. The website is presently offline, and there are online r...")
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Bankoftron.jpg
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Bankoftron.jpg
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page KuCoin Fraudulent Website (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/kucoinfraudulentwebsite.php}} thumb|KuCoinKuCoin reported that a malicious website was pretending to be affiliated with the exchange. The website was promising incentives to lure new users to sign up. It is unclear if any users lost funds. This exchange or platform is based in Singapore, or the incident targeted people primarily in Singapore. == About KuCoin == "Behind KuCoin...")
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Kucoin.jpg
• 11:42, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Kucoin.jpg
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Mirror Trading International (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/mirrortradinginternational.php}} thumb|MTIMirror Trading International was an investment platform which promised a high return for bitcoin invested, based on an alleged trading strategy that could generate a consistent return. In reality, it doesn't appear the trading strategy was possible, and instead this was a ponzi scheme. Some of the funds have been recovered so fa...")
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Mirrortrading.jpg
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Mirrortrading.jpg
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Uniswap Fake Teller Token (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/uniswapfaketellertoken.php}} thumb|UniswapUniswap allows anyone to list a token. Therefore, there have been a massive number of scams with tokens named similarly to popular tokens. The Tellor project did not have a token. There was still a reasonable chance someone may have looked for one, and ended up purchasing from a scammer. This is a global/international case not involvi...")
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Nano S RamboRiki Hack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgernanosramborikihack.php}} thumb|LedgerReddit user RamboRiki had $25k worth of cryptocurrency stolen from their Ledger hardware wallet. They swear that their seed phrase was uniquely generated and remained stored securely in a safe at their home. They had mentioned a plan to reach out to Coinfirm for assistance in recovery, however no further updates are available on this c...")
• 11:41, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page MyMonero Fake Google Play Wallet (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/mymonerofakegoogleplaywallet.php}} thumb|MyMoneroA Monero user lost a significant sum of 237.93370507 XMR after accidentally deciding to use the wrong version of the MyMonero client on their Android phone. The fraudulent application appeared to be a legitimate wallet but actually had a backdoor allowing the funds to be taken. Given the untraceability of Monero and the irrever...")
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Mymonero.jpg
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Mymonero.jpg
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Definition Network Loophole (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/definitionnetworkloophole.php}} thumb|Definition NetworkThere did not appear to be any activity in the Telegram group, no website, and the Twitter account was deleted. Whatever original exploit, it appears that the project as a whole disappeared sometime after September 2020. This is a global/international case not involving a specific country. == About Definition Net...")
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Definitiontron.jpg
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Definitiontron.jpg
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page YAM Finance Incident (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/yamincident.php}} thumb|YAM FinanceDespite an audit, YAM Finance launched with a coding error which caused governance tokens to be minted rapidly in the protocol. This doomed the project, and ended up with $750,000 worth of yCRV token stuck in the contract. The project was relaunched in a new smart contract, and the second version was more successful. This is a global/int...")
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Yamfinance.jpg
• 11:40, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Yamfinance.jpg
• 11:39, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page NUGS Security Issues (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/nugssecurityissues.php}} thumb|NUGS.SpaceThe NUGS token is a deflationary token with the minting secured through a smart contract hot wallet. The website is presently offline and the token appears to have disappeared. This is a global/international case not involving a specific country. == About NUGS.Space == "[C]rypto is stressful. [W]e designed the NUGS token to be a fun esca...")
• 11:39, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page File:Nugs.jpg
• 11:39, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs uploaded File:Nugs.jpg
• 11:39, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Uniswap Fake NEAR Token (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/uniswapfakeneartoken.php}} thumb|UniswapUniswap allows anyone to list a token. Therefore, there have been a massive number of scams with tokens named similarly to popular tokens. The NEAR project did not have a token. There was still a reasonable chance someone may have looked for one, and ended up purchasing from a scammer. This is a global/international case not involving a...")
• 11:39, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Uniswap Counterfeit SRM (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/uniswapcounterfeitsrm.php}} thumb|UniswapOne of the challenges with open-ended protocols like Uniswap is that scammers could impersonate existing tokens, getting money for smoke. In the case of the Serum project, they hadn't even launched yet, and investors got duped into purchasing something which wasn't actual Serum. This is a global/international case not involving a spec...")
• 11:38, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Bitfinex/Ethereum Classic Second 51% Attack (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/bitfinexethereumclassicsecond51attack.php}} thumb|BitfinexThe Ethereum Classic blockchain is vulnerable to 51% attacks due to the low hash power. Multiple victims including the exchange platform Bitfinex fell victim to the attack and lost $3.2m. In the 51% attack, a single group or individual purchases or repurposes a massive amount of hashing power. This enables them to pro...")
• 11:38, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Live Fake App In Google Play (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgerlivefakeappingoogleplay.php}} thumb|LedgerLedger reports a fake application created in the Google Play store, alledging to be Ledger Live. The Twitter discussion is also full of a significant number of phishing attempts agains Ledger users. It's not clear if anyone has lost funds on this fake application. This is a global/international case not involving a specific count...")
• 11:38, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Ledger Seed Store In Email Breach (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/ledgerseedstoreinemailbreach.php}} thumb|LedgerA ledger hardware wallet user learned the hard way about never storing their seed phrase in a digital format. 3 years after setting up their wallet and storing a backup of the seed phrase in their email account, they found all wallets drained of $13k worth of cryptocurrency that they'd been saving up. This is a global/internationa...")
• 11:38, 25 January 2023 Azoundria talk contribs created page Opyn Double use oToken Breach (Created page with "{{Imported Case Study|source=https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/opyndefibreach.php}} thumb|OpynDespite a security audit by OpenZeppelin, Opyn's smart contract for oToken put options continued to be vulnerable. The hacker got away with funds, which the Opyn team reimbursed for affected users. This exchange or platform is based in United States, or the incident targeted people primarily in United States. == About Opyn == "Opyn is a generaliz...")