Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Sim-swappers hack League of Legends star out of $200K worth of cryptocurrency


It’s not as easy as it sounds being a professional gamer. A League of Legends superstar has had $200,000 in cryptocurrency stolen from them – directly from their Coinbase account. In a YouTube video spotted by Dot Esports, Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng describes how he awoke one morning last week to messages from his bank telling him he is overdrawn on his account. While the exact details of the hack have not been officially confirmed, Peng does have his suspicions. What happened? Peng states that around a couple of weeks before the theft, he had experienced some abnormal cellphone coverage which…

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https://ift.tt/2QDGzMZ Matthew Beedham September 18, 2018 at 06:01AM

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