Bitcoin users are opening their wallets to hackers through mobile networks

Tom Allen
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SS7 vulnerabilities are being exploited by attackers to open wallets and bank accounts

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin make a big deal of their security; theoretically, they are almost impossible to hack. Every transaction is stored in a ‘digital ledger', shared across multiple machine...

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