Pickering (February 28, 2020) – The Durham Regional Police arrested Eric Hentschel from Pickering on…
Coinbase Customers Are Furious Over Response to Hacked Accounts and Stolen Funds
Coinbase customers have a lot to say about the nation’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform. Interviews and thousands of complaints have revealed a pattern of account hacks where users have reported money vanishing from their accounts, reports CNBC. Then, when...
Hawkesbury OPP warning area residents of increase in cryptocurrency scams
The Hawkesbury Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) it warning area residents that there has been a steady increase in reports of scams related to investing in cryptocurrency. The scams involve fraudsters setting up a fake cryptocurrency investment...
Hackers return nearly half of the $600 million they stole in one of the biggest crypto heists
Aug. 12, 2021 – Hackers have returned nearly half of the $600 million they stole in what’s likely to be one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever. The cybercriminals exploited a vulnerability in Poly Network, a platform that looks to connect different...
Five people arrested in alleged cryptocurrency fraud scheme
Five people, including three minors, were arrested Thursday in an apartment in Acton Vale, 90 kilometers east of Montreal, as part of a Sûreté du Québec investigation into an alleged fraud ring that claimed to invest in cryptocurrency. Five people, including three...
What the cryptocurrency boom means for enterprise cybersecurity
June 11, 2021 – While standards like the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) are mature and well-known, cryptocurrency frameworks are just beginning to emerge and become accepted. On the forefront is the Cryptocurrency Security Standard...