There was a data leak of about 66,000 users of the Trezor wallet for storing cryptocurrencies.

Hardware wallet maker Trezor is tracking an incident where the portal's external support was hacked, in which the contact information of about 66,000 users could be used for fishing. 

 

The company said that while the attackers were unable to gain access to the digital assets, the data of users who contacted Trezor support since the end of 2021 may have been compromised. 

 

However, Trezor, launched in 2013 by European technology company Satoshi Labs, showed that no digital assets were compromised during setup.

 

X launches a special account for payments, suggests the cryptocurrency community.

Elon Musk's "everything app" X (formerly known as Twitter) has created a dedicated account for its upcoming payments feature, fueling further speculation in the cryptocurrency community about the possibility of introducing cryptocurrencies.

 

App X is expected to have in-game payment services by mid-2024. However, there has been no confirmation whether this feature will support payments beyond traditional fiat currencies.

 

Polygon caught up with Ethereum in terms of the number of new users.

In 2023, the Polygon project recorded 15.24 million new accounts, while Ethereum recorded 15.4 million, as evidenced by the Flipside report.

New users are defined as wallets that have made at least two transactions on a specific blockchain.

Polygon was ahead of Ethereum in the first half of last year but then slowed down its growth rate.

The Bitcoin blockchain took third place with 10.65 million new accounts. Solana and Arbitrum complete the top five.

 

Tesla did not sell any Bitcoins on its balance sheet.

Tesla did not buy or sell Bitcoins throughout 2023, maintaining a position in the cryptocurrency worth $184 million at book value, as follows from the financial report.

The electric car manufacturer's revenue for the period amounted to $97.8 billion, which is 15% more than the figure for 2022. Profit fell by 15% to $17.7 billion.

Tesla shares fell nearly 6% in after-hours trading. Over the past month, the company's quotes have decreased by almost 18%.

 

The value of TRUMP meme coins in Donald Trump’s wallet exceeded $1 million.

The value of 579,281 TRUMP stored in the wallet of former US President Donald Trump exceeded $1 million against the backdrop of an approximately fivefold increase in January, Arkham Intelligence noted.

The team behind the meme coin transferred the coins to the politician’s address in several tranches between August and October 2023. At that time, the assets were valued at $7,100. With current token quotes at around $2, their value is ~$1.15 million, an increase of more than 165 times from the initial one.

 

The theme of the Privacy Day 2024 conference will be artificial intelligence.

The international online conference on the protection of personal data and privacy, Privacy Day, organized by Privacy Accelerator and Digital Rights Center, will be held on January 29, the organizers report.

The central theme of the event in 2024 is the new challenges that artificial intelligence technologies pose to cybersecurity specialists.

The conference is divided into three thematic tracks: “Privacy Issues in Business”, “Protecting the Privacy of Citizens and Their Digital Rights”, and “Technological Trends”.