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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Record-high seizure of $5bn in stolen Bitcoin

Record-high seizure of $5bn in stolen Bitcoin

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Cryptocurrency worth more than $5 billion has been seized by the US Department of Justice in the largest ever confiscation.

A New York couple which includes the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' have been arrested.

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Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein are accused of attempting to launder nearly 120,000 bitcoins after a hacker attacked the Bitfinex

A geomagnetic storm has taken out 40 of 49 SpaceX Starlink satellites launched last week. Elon Musk’s satellite internet company launched the satellites aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 and they initially reached a low Earth orbit before being disrupted.

It’s been revealed that the UK Foreign Office has been the target of a 'serious cyber incident’. The details came via a tender document published on a government website, seemingly by mistake.

Samsung’s Unpacked and Nintendo Direct’s first ‘Switch-focused’ events take place. An astronaut closes in on the record for consecutive days in space and NASA awards the contract to build a vehicle for Mars sample return mission. Plus, how ‘alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in the deep of the Arctic.

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