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Twitter will reportedly give its full data stream to Elon Musk

Twitter could comply with Elon Musk’s demand for more data about its users as soon as this week. According to The Washington Post, the company plans to give the billionaire full access to its full “firehose,” an internal database that includes details …

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Winkelvoss twins’ crypto exchange faces lawsuit over $36 million theft (updated)

The Winklevoss twins might soon head to court. The Vergenotes retirement savings firm IRA Financial Trust has sued the twins’ crypto exchange Gemini over allegations the business didn’t adequately protect customers against a February 8th breach where intruders stole $36 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum assets. The company didn’t have “proper safeguards” to prevent the theft, according to IRA, and didn’t freeze accounts quickly enough to block the thieves from transferring money.

The trust firm specifically rejected claims that Gemini’s protections prevented a “single point of failure.” Gemini made IRA the parent account for its customers (who use sub-accounts), and gave it a “master key” that was reportedly exchanged in numerous insecure emails. Combine that with security flaws in Gemini’s system and you probably know what happened next — hackers got control of IRA’s key, moved the crypto into a single user’s retirement account, and withdrew the digital cash. The perpetrators also appear to have swatted Gemini during the February incident, making a fake kidnapping call to police. 

Gemini’s other security measures didn’t hold up, the IRA added. It supposedly shouldn’t have been possible to transfer money between accounts if the exchange had either properly implemented two-factor authentication or prohibited transfers between retirement funds. The trust noted that it didn’t have the power to freeze accounts itself, and that it took six emails to lock down all affected users. We’ve asked Gemini for comment.

This adds to mounting problems for the Winkelvoss’ outfit. It recently laid off 10 percent of staff to deal with a plunge in the cryptocurrency market, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Gemini for purportedly misleading customers in parts of its exchange and futures contract. While none of these problems may necessarily be fatal, they suggest the Winklevii could face financial trouble for a while to come.

Update 6/8 9:08AM ET: Gemini told Engadget in a statement that it “reject[s]” the allegations, and that the attackers targeted IRA rather than the exchange. It claimed that no Gemini systems were compromised, and that it “acted quickly” to help IRA following the breach.

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FTC says victims of crypto scams have lost more than $1 billion since 2021

The world of crypto continues to draw scam artists and fraud. People have reported losing a combined total of over $1 billion due to crypto scams since the beginning of 2021, according to an FTC report released today. From January 2021 through March of this year, more than 46,000 individuals filed a crypto-related fraud report with the agency. The median individual reported loss in these reports was $2,600.

Perhaps ironically, the most common coins used in scams are also the most widely used, as well as a top stablecoin. A total of 70 percent of scams used Bitcoin as the payment method, followed by Tether (10 percent) and Ether (9 percent). Ether is the prime currency of choice for NFTs, a relatively new crypto market where fraudsters and hackers have thrived.

Crypto investment scams were the most common type of scam reported to the FTC, accounting for an estimated $575 million in losses. Normally these scams target amateur investors by promising them large returns in exchange for an initial investment.

“Investment scammers claim they can quickly and easily get huge returns for investors. But those crypto ‘investments’ go straight to a scammer’s wallet,” wrote the FTC’s Emma Fletcher in a blog post.

Romance scams also account for a large slice of reported scams, totaling $185 million in losses. Many of these scammers reach individuals by social media or dating apps. A type of dating app scam known as “pig slaughtering” — where criminals build a fake relationship with a victim in order to con them into investing in crypto — has become more common, reported CoinTelegraph.

It’s important to note that the FTC report is only a small snapshot of how much crypto fraud has truly occurred, since the agency is relying on direct reports submitted by victims. An FTC paper estimated that less than five percent of fraud victims reported it to a government entity, and likely an even smaller number report to the FTC. As crypto becomes more popular, the number of scams have also increased. Blockchain platform Chainanalysis estimated that illicit addresses received over $14 billion in crypto last year, nearly twice the amount in 2020.