Current news conglomerate from the crypto world.
📍The release of Twitter reveals information of interest to users and followers of the social network: hackers targeted a total of 130 accounts of important personalities and organizations, but they only managed to access a total of 45 accounts, exchanging access emails and passwords. Likewise, the platform revealed that of the 45 hacked accounts, in 8 accounts the hackers downloaded the associated data through Your Twitter Data, a platform tool that stores messages, images, among others. Likewise, Twitter clarified that the tools used to access the 45 verified accounts were only available to Twitter support employees, confirming that the attack was carried out with internal help.
📍Meanwhile Twitter hackers began moving funds. Recently Whitestream noted that one of the addresses used to receive the funds had already been used to make commercial transactions in Bitpay y Coinbase. Now a study de Elliptic, a cybersecurity firm, notes that 22% of those funds (2,89 BTC) were moved to an address that may be Wasabia whirlpool bath, wallet of privacy. Although the firm notes that this move may make it difficult to track down those responsible, it also noted that authorities will continue to track the money to the point of withdrawal.
📍In Ethereum the amount of Transactions processed within the network has had an increase after the increase in the Gas limit proposed by the mineros. Gas on the Ethereum network went from 10.000.000 to 12.500.000 after miners voted for a 25% increase. This increase did not discourage the community, but rather that now the number of transactions on Ethereum increased from 35 to an average of 44 per second.
📍It appears that the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division Command (USACIDC) is looking to develop a tool that will allow you to track transactions cryptocurrencies, . This is a research project for the development of new software in web application format, which together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the same country, will allow the state to ensure that transactions carried out with crypto assets are legal, and detect those that have a suspicious origin as well as those involved.
📍In China, the number of companies that are experimenting with CBDC of the digital yuan. At the time of starting the tests with the digital currency, 4 major cities were chosen as test centers, while the nation's Agricultural Bank would be the first organization to implement it. Now, several transportation, e-commerce and product distribution companies such as DiDi Chuxing, Maituan Dianping y bilibili They are implementing the CBDC.
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