News with the tag "sim swap"

Alabama resident Eric Council, Jr. has been arrested for allegedly being the infamous hacker behind the January 2024 SEC SIM swap attack, an October 17 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia reveals. The hack led to a surge in the price of Bitcoin. The post Alabam...

Eric Council Jr. was arrested for the SEC X hack in January 2024, posting a fake announcement about Bitcoin ETFs.

A man from Athens, Alabama, was arrested Thursday for his role in the January 2024 hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account. The hack led to a false announcement regarding bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), temporarily causing bitcoin prices to rise by $1,000. SEC X Account...

AT&T is back in the news again for new legal challenges related to a sensational SIM swap case in which crypto worth $24 million was stolen from an investor by the name of Michael Terpin. Recently, a division of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a recent ruling by the lower court in favo...

Cryptocurrency stolen in a SIM swap may lead to a precedent-setting decision on phone company responsibility.

On-chain detective ZachXBT has linked the convicted U.K. hacker Gurvinder Bhangu to Sydney Sweeney and Bob Odenkirk’s crypto hacks.

According to the on-chain sleuth, CAT memecoin creators hacked crypto influencer GCR to manipulate some coin prices.

Trezor’s official X account (formerly Twitter) got hacked, promoting fake token sales and directing users to send Solana token (SOL) to unknown wallets. The breach raised concerns about Trezor’s security The post Trezor X Account Hacked In A Suspected Sim-Swap Attack appeared first on BitcoinWorld .

Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecom companies, has partnered with Chainlink, a decentralized oracle provider, to improve security in Web3 environments. Through the use of Chainlink functions and Telefonica’s SIM Swap API implementation, Polygon apps would be able to check if the SIM of a ...

The partnership will be a "significant step" in integrating telecom capabilities into the blockchain technology, the firms said.