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Former LAPD officer receives life sentence in $350,000 bitcoin home invasion
Eric Halem was convicted of kidnapping and robbery after a crew posed as police and took a teenager's bitcoin. Two current reports say the court imposed life plus 15 years.
2 min readSecurity · NewsColdcard entropy flaw leaves affected wallets needing new seeds
Coinkite says seeds created on multiple Coldcard generations can contain substantially less randomness than expected. Fixed firmware prevents new weak seeds, but it cannot repair keys that already exist.
3 min readSecurity · NewsTriple-A treasury-wallet breach left client funds untouched, company says
The payments company says the incident was contained and services restored. It has not yet published the attack path or a complete loss figure.
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