By CCN: Cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange shattered by an over $16 million hack earlier this year, is in a huge mess as a third-party server host demands $2 million to release customer data. The fall of Cryptopia In January, Cryptopia got hacked t…
By CCN: Whale Alert, an account which automatically and manually notes large crypto transfers for Twitter followers, stated this morning that slightly more than $250,000 of stolen Cryptopia ether moved today. $250k Parked, $125k Moved to EtherDelta 1,0…
By CCN: Users of the New Zealand-based bitcoin exchange Cryptopia should expect more uncertainty in the coming months. In an update released earlier today following the announcement that it had gone into liquidation, Cryptopia has warned users that the…
By CCN: It may not have sounded the death knell immediately but the January hacking of New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia changed everything forever. Now the crypto exchange which lost NZD$ 23 million (approximately $15 million) in the…
Despite having promised to compensate customers who lost crypto assets following a security breach in January, New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia is yet to provide concrete details on the process. In a statement that was released on March 17, Crypto…
Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia resumed trading on 40 trade pairs three months after it endured a multi-million dollars theft. The New Zealand firm took to its Twitter profile to update that it was beginning to list pairs that it “quantified as…
More than a fortnight since Cryptopia hinted at reimbursing users affected by a security breach that occurred in mid-January, the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange has confirmed to customers that it will offer a ‘rebate’. This was revealed in a…
New Zealand’s hacked cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has announced that the scheduled resumption of trading has been postponed. In a tweeted update, the crypto exchange blamed slight delays for the postponement. The Cryptopia site will now re-open as…
New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia disclosed that local police have allowed employees to return to the firm’s office following its suspension of operations mid last month after a multi-million dollar security breach. In the lates…
Elementus, the blockchain data science firm which initially figured out that the Cryptopia hackers had gotten away with about eight times the amount reported, has another bombshell report regarding Cryptopia. The hackers who originally made off with so…
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has disclosed that just two groups benefited from the majority of cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred to date. Per The Wall Street Journal, the two hacking groups could have obtained as much as $1 billion in cry…
By CCN.com: Contrary to prior reports putting the value of cryptocurrency stolen in the Cryptopia exchange hack at around $2.5 million, it has emerged that the true value of assets stolen sums up to about $16 million. According to blockchain analysis p…
Police authorities in New Zealand have admitted the Cryptotopia hack case is no small task, citing complex challenges in tracing the accused. Crypto Attackers have the Cops on Trail An official release on January 16 has confirmed investigations are ong…
Binance has frozen some of the funds that were stolen from crypto exchange Cryptopia during the high-profile hack that occurred earlier this week. Binance Puzzled Why Hackers Keep Sending Funds to its Exchange Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced the n…
On January 14, large crypto exchange Cryptopia was hacked, resulting in significant losses of investor funds. In an official statement released on Tuesday, the company said that the New Zealand police and the government’s High Tech Crimes Unit had init…
Cryptopia, a New Zealand-based crypto exchange, was hacked this week, suffering “significant losses” as a result of the breach. Crypto Exchange Cryptopia Hit by Hackers On January 14, Cryptopia tweeted that the exchange was going through &#…
A little-known cryptocurrency called AurumCoin (AU) has claimed that it was hit by 51 percent attack, and crypto exchange Cryptopia, where the cryptocurrency is listed, lost 15,752.26 AU (approx. $550,000 at the time of writing this article). Howe…