Online wallet was accessible via an app, without need for an existing bank account, with payments accepted via smartphone scans in downtown outlets in China's fourth-biggest city, from luxury goods retailers to snack stores

The tweets, which have since been taken down, asked followers to donate to the PM National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency

From banking and logistics to governance, the public ledger technology is helping cut cost and time, enhancing efficiencies

A 17-year-old recent graduate from Florida was arrested for the major Twitter hack on July 15. He faces 30 felony charges and is being charged as an adult.

Among the three people arrested, Florida's Clarke is believed to be the mastermind who tricked Twitter's IT department into handing him over with secure credentials.

Even the COVID-19 themed attacks are on the rise. Of the millions of targeted phishing messages seen globally each day, roughly 60,000 include COVID-19 related malicious attachments or URLs

The \"halving\" has affected the supply side of bitcoin and increased the time needed for miners to find their break-even point

Google has temporarily disabled the Twitter carousel feature that would display tweets by personalities when searched for.

Earlier the FBI had said that the accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud.

Twitter briefly blocked access of all verified accounts and is investigating the matter. Twitter said that it won't restore access to their owners' account until they are certain that they can do it securely

After Twitter acknowledged that the high profile accounts were compromised with coordinated social engineering attacks, some hackers have emerged and are explaining how they got into accounts of Twitter users like Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others.

On Wednesday night, Twitter lost control of a number of verified and popular accounts. The accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and others were affected and were used to push the bitcoin scam.

In a security breach scammers took control of a number of high-profile Twitter accounts using a tool that Twitter employees use and posted tweets to promote a bitcoin scam.

A tweet from Bill Gates' official Twitter account said 'Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. I am doubling all payments sent to BTC address for the next 30 minutes. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000'

As central banks look at digital currencies, this emerging technology will soon be hard to ignore

Reliance Industries has recently finalised a number of global partnerships and investments, with some more deal in the cards even as markets remain under pressure due to coronavirus and oil prices crash

Share Market Update: Sensex ended 2,713 points lower at 31,390 and Nifty closed 756 points lower at 9,199.

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As a result of this amalgamation, the number of PSBs will get consolidated from 27 banks in 2017 to 12 banks in 2020

The institutional collaboration will facilitate promotion of education and training covering engineering courses and internship programmes in both India and Japan