After hackers managed to compromise its systems, Canadian Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex is shutting down. It has been reported that hackers obtained hashed passwords and two-factor authentication secrets that compromised Cavirtex’s data and operations. Cavirtex will allow trading until March 20, 2015 and will allow withdrawals until March 25th when it will permanently close up shop. For more details on this story, click here:: Bitcoin exchange shuts down after suspected password breach
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11% of Bitcoin Transactions Can Be Unmasked
The main appeal of using Bitcoin is to be able to make anonymous transactions without the fear of linking a wallet address to a real person. Now it’s been discovered that 11% of Bitcoin transactions can be traced via blockchain to a public IP address. For more on this discovery, please click here:: Bitcoin Not That Anonymous Afterall
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