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4 billion dollar Bitcoin hack makes TikTok girl Heather Morgan an Internet sensation

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More than 1,00,000 Bitcoin, US $4,000,000,000, one of the biggest crypto hacks in the world, hackers and money untraceable for nearly 6 years… Sounds like a major heist, doesn’t it?



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BitFinex was hacked in 2016 and millions of dollars worth Bitcoin was stolen.

The US Department of Justice has caught up to the hackers, arrested them and come in possession of the world’s largest crypto-holding wallet. But can you imagine who carried out such a sophisticated heist – perhaps state actors from North Korea or Russia, or some big mafia connection, shrouded in mystery and a black hoodie with no face?

All guesses are WRONG in this case!

The Crypto world has proved to be even more surreal and crazy than ever before. The hackers behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack are a TikTok girl named Heather Morgan who made cringey rap videos, and her husband of dual nationality – Russia and the US, who ran ‘cloud services and solutions business’.

The US DoJ arrested 31-year-old Heather Morgan and her husband 34-year-old Ilya Lichtenstein in the 2016 BitFinex hack. More than the movie plot-like-story behind the hack and the recovery, netizens are going gaga over Heather Morgan.

Heather Morgan has become an instant hit among netizens in the hack story due to her unique online persona, unlike anything anyone would have ever imagined a hacker to be. Heather made rap videos on YouTube, TikTok and elsewhere under the name Razzlekhan. She also gave speeches on growing businesses and called herself a ‘serial entrepreneur’ and an ‘angel investor’. She described her art as ‘surreal’, her genre as ‘horror-comedy, with a splash of weird allure’.



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Heather Morgan’s profile on Forbes.

Before this, she also worked for Forbes as a writer between 2017 and 2021. Her Forbes bio reads: When she’s not reverse-engineering…

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Was Solana Really Brought Down Again By DDoS Attackers This Week? – Sologenic – United States Dollar ($SOL)

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Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) was hit by an alleged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, which caused transactions to fail on the network, but the project’s co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko denied such reports.

What Happened: Chinese journalist Colin Wu said on Twitter that Solana went down at 2 a.m. local time. Wu cited the official Telegram community of the project to say that the attacker was suspected to have used spam to conduct a DDoS attack. 

The network was fixed at 7 a.m. (local time) Tuesday and functionality was restored to normal, as per the journalist. 

A DDoS attack is a subclass of a denial of service (DoS) attack and is conducted through multiple connected online devices collectively called a botnet. These botnets are used to overwhelm the target with fake traffic.

Wu’s assertions were countered by Solana’s Yakovenko who tweeted that “There was some congestion due to mis metered transitions.” This caused some users to experience timed-out transactions. 

Last month, Solana was hit by an outage, which was attributed to network clogging caused by the launch of an Initial Dex offering (IDO) on the network, reported Cointelegraph. 

See Also: How To Buy Solana (SOL)

Why It Matters: If indeed Solana suffered a DDoS attack this week, it would be the third time the network has suffered such an event. 

In September, Solana suffered a DDoS attack, which led to the value of the cryptocurrency spiraling downwards. The problem was fixed after the network was rebooted.

Even so, Solana emerged as a potent Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) rival in 2021, as the project gained traction due to a surge in popularity of non fungible tokens, decentralized finance, and smart contracts.
SOL rose 9255% in 2021. It is down 5.5% in 2022 so far. At press time, SOL traded 0.7% higher at $168.67. It touched an all-time high of $260.06 in November.

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Billion dollar heists, missing cryptoqueens: Six must-listen cyber podcasts

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The Lazarus Heist

Another BBC production, this one telling the story of the most daring bank theft ever attempted – and you probably haven’t even heard of it.

But the story is much more complicated than that.

Geoff White and Jean Lee are the hosts who combine to tell the story of how North Korea, Kim Jong-un and an international math Olympian are involved – and how a single word made all the difference in the attempted heist.

It all starts somewhere you might not expect, too – the infamous hack of Sony in 2014, linked to Seth Rogen movie The Interview.

How did the hackers get access to Sony’s servers and what exactly does it have to do with an attempt to steal a billion dollars? You’ll have your answer in just 10 highly-engaging episodes.

Exit Scam

Exit Scam is a short, eight-part documentary series that deals with the life and apparent death of Gerald Cotten, the founder of Canada’s biggest bitcoin exchange, Quadriga.

Cotten died in India in mysterious circumstances on his honeymoon in 2018 – and afterwards it emerged C$215 million that had been invested in his company had disappeared forever.

Initially it was thought it was because his passwords had been lost, but it turns out that wasn’t the case.

Host Aaron Lammer and producer Lane Brown spent two years investigating Cotten, his business – and his death, because not everyone thinks Cotten is dead.

Interviews with those who knew Cotten are mixed with experts, including one who specialises in finding people who have faked their deaths, to tell this amazing story.

Grumpy Old Geeks

This isn’t solely dedicated to cybersecurity or cryptocurrency but those subjects are dealt with all of the time, and with a healthy dose of scepticism and snark by Jason Defillipo and Brian Schulmeister.

Their weekly guest Dave Bittner is a security expert who hosts a daily cyber security show and so his recurring section is often – but not always – a healthy diversion from the bickering of the two main hosts.

The show is peppered with swearing, references to Star Wars and recommendations for software, television shows and movies.

It won’t take long to work out just how this podcast got its name. Be warned – if the thoughts of two old white…

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JZZ Technologies, Inc. Jumps into the Billion Dollar Prison Reform Industry by Training Ex-Offenders in IT & Cyber Security for Under $500

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JZZ Technologies, Inc. and NationalCyberSecurityTrainingAcademy.com launches a Second Chance Program called GetASecondChance.org.

Calverton, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – March 29, 2021) – JZZ Technologies, Inc. (OTC Pink: JZZI) has partnered with NationalCyberSecurityTrainingAcademy.com to launch a new program to help train Returning Citizens (ex-felons) in the IT Network Security and Cyber Security industries.

According to the United Nation’s office on Drugs and Crime, imprisonment disproportionately affects individuals and families living in poverty. When an income generating member of the family is imprisoned, the rest of the family must adjust to the loss of the income exacerbated by the new expenses that must be met, such as legal costs and transport to prison for visits, etc.

When released, often with no prospects for employments, former prisoners are generally subject to socio-economic exclusion and are vulnerable to an endless cycle of poverty, marginalization, criminality and imprisonment. Thus, imprisonment contributes directly to the impoverishment of the prisoner, of his family (with a significant cross-generational effect) and of society by creating future victims and reducing future potential economic performance (United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime, 2020).

“As an ex-hacker with over 35 years’ experience in computer securities as well as training state and federal law enforcement, I have always believed that a reformed ex-offender who is trained in network security will be stronger in protecting networks from being hacked than someone that has no understanding of both the legal and illegal side of network security. That’s because the bad guy knows how to think like a hacker,” says Gregory Evans.

“A major reason that big corporations and governments get hacked every day is because they hire IT teams based on individuals’ certification, not necessarily their experience. A person in network securities who has never had a parking ticket, let alone hacked into a network before, is less likely to understand the complexities of network securities from the perspective of someone who is practiced in finding ways around those security measures. A person who does not…

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