According to a Nov. 11 announcement, Binance is granting most of the $250,000 reward that the exchange offered to pay for information leading to the arrest of the March 7, 2018 attackers. “Sometimes #SAFU takes time,” Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao tweeted. “This took 2 years of effort, with close collaboration with multiple law enforcement agencies globally. But we don't give up.”
A cybercriminal organization known as Darkside posted receipts for $10,000 in Bitcoin donations to two charities. Darkside published the donation complete with tax receipts for the donation of 0.88 BTC to The Water Project and Children International.
Andre Cronje—the creator of major DeFi protocol Yearn.Finance and the exploited protocol Eminence.Finance—informed the public of the hack on Sept. 29. He explained that the protocol was very much a work in progress and he did not expect it to suddenly attract such a great amount of user funds.
Hacken’s CERtified standard is based on four factors. This criteria is then used to calculate a “CyberSecurity Score,” with top-performing exchanges receiving a maximum of three stars.
