Securing Cryptocurrency: The Priority for Tech Firms in 2020

Written by brent-whitfield | Published 2020/01/17
Tech Story Tags: cryptocurrency | blockchain-and-cryptocurrency | cybersecurity | it-security | it-professionals | securing-crypto | mt-gox-to-coincheck-hacks | regulation-and-crypto

TLDR The Mt.Gox hack is the biggest stain on the reputation of virtual money to date. Hackers have stolen 850,000 BitCoins from the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange in 2014. In 2018, another Japanese exchange, Coincheck, suffered a hack resulting in the theft of $530m of NEM tokens. Cryptopia (twice), CoinMama, CoinBene, Bithumb, Binance, GateHub and Bitrue all succumbing in 2019.via the TL;DR App
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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/01/17
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