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MtGox Acquires Bitomat.pl as Bid to Restore Confidence in Bitcoin Market
In a move to restore confidence in the Bitcoin exchange market, MtGox (owned and operated by Tibanne Co. Ltd.) will be integrating the recently beleaguered Bitomat.pl user database. According to a recent press release, MtGox will migrate the users of the 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange into their own and add the Polish Zloty as an ...
Hackers Threaten BlackBerry Maker over Co-Operation with London Riots Investigation
Hackers have defaced the BlackBerry blog in a move to intimidate Research In Motion over a statement that the company would lawfully assist the police during the investigation of the London and Tottenham riots. The London riots spread at such an extraordinary rate and with apparent orchestration that shows evidence that social networking and messaging systems ...
RIM to Co-operate with Metropolitan Police Over BlackBerry Role in London Riots, Looter Networking
Scotland Yard has vowed to investigate and track down instigators who have been using messaging software and social media in order to post “really inflammatory, inaccurate” messages using the BlackBerry network, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media networks. The manufacturer of BlackBerry, Research In Motion, said Monday that they would co-operate with a police investigation ...
Anonymous Defaces Syria’s Ministry of Defense Website, Castigates Current Regime
A faction claiming participation in the hactivist collective Anonymous has struck the web pages of the Syrian Ministry of Defense (currently offline) and defaced them with a message about the massacres occurring in that country. According to The Hacker News, the Anonymous logo and a note can be seen on the homepage. In the wake ...
Bitcoin Ends its Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Only two months ago the Bitcoin charts saw a massive price inflationary phase as speculation exceeded what the market could bear and the currency peaked June 8 at around $32 per BTC. Now charts have fallen to almost $7 as the June bubble evaporates and the market stabilizes once again—alongside a series of hacks to ...
Who is Tom Williams? MyBitcoin.com Reappears with Statement Claiming Site Was Hacked
The semi-anonymous developers who ran MyBitcoin.com have left a cryptographically signed message on the front page of their site talking about why the site went AWOL last month along with almost $250,000 worth of BTC. Although the message is extremely sparse, contains few details, and no way to actually contact or identify responsible parties, it’s ...
USA PATRIOT Act Still Chafing European Cloud-Adoption with Data Integrity Concerns
The Internet and data represent a whole new paradigm for looking at jurisdiction in the Information Age of politics and law. When sovereignty and information collide, often consumers get caught in the middle—this is the case still with a tug-of-war between the USA PATRIOT Act and the European Data Protection Directive. As more and more ...
Fast-Growing Bitcoin Exchange Ruxum to Begin Trading in European Currencies
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Bitcoin and, in particular, Bitcoin exchanges it’s a ripe time for new players to enter into the market and wow people involved in the peer-to-peer virtual currency market. While this mathematically interesting currency concept has been around for a few years, it took it until recently to springboard into the ...
Blizzard Planning Diablo III Cash Auction House: Items Will be Bought, Sold for Real Money
Monday, Blizzard released new information about the highly anticipated release of Diablo III—the third installment of their extremely popular isometric, demon-slaying RPG series. Among the announcements advocating the upcoming beta and the fact that the game will be entirely online, they included a real kicker for the massively multiplayer online game community: there will be ...
Third Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitomat Lost Their Wallet, Over 17,000 Bitcoins Missing
Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The Bitomat service is now up for sale for 17,000 Bitcoins to help recover the cost of the missing coins and return them to their ...