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FTX claims it has been hacked, and tells users to delete FTX apps, not install app updates, and avoid visiting FTX.com, after $600M+ in crypto left FTX wallets — FTX officials appeared to confirm rumors of a hack on Telegram, instructing users to delete FTX apps and avoid its website.
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Sources: spreadsheets shown by SBF to FTX's regulatory and legal teams show that at least $1B of client funds that moved from FTX to Alameda is unaccounted for — At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Financial Times: |
FTX balance sheet: $900M in liquid assets the day before bankruptcy, including $470M in Robinhood shares owned by an SBF entity not listed in bankruptcy filings — Vast gap highlights the dire state of Sam Bankman-Fried's exchange before it collapsed into bankruptcy| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told staff on November 9 that she, SBF, and two FTX executives were aware that FTX lent its customers' money to Alameda — Trading firm Alameda's troubles helped lead to the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX — Alameda Research's chief executive …
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FTX US General Counsel says the exchange has moved remaining funds to cold wallets to “mitigate damage” following a series of “unauthorized transactions” — Millions of dollars started to mysteriously move from FTX late Friday U.S. hours.
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| Bradley Saacks / Semafor: |
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried and most of his inner circle are still in the Bahamas but many senior FTX executives left for Hong Kong and elsewhere in recent days — Bradley is a Business & Finance reporter for Semafor, joining us from Business Insider. Sign up for Semafor Business to get his scoops and coverage of the industry.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Report: FTX legal and finance teams learned that SBF implemented a “backdoor” in FTX's bookkeeping system to alter financial records without alerting others — - Reuters reports that at least $1 billion worth of customer funds have vanished from the failed crypto exchange.
Tweets: @ozard_ofwiz
| Bloomberg: |
FTX's crash highlights flaws like Sequoia's lack of access to Alameda's balance sheet despite its due diligence and the investors failing to demand a board seat — Among the last people to realize that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a financial time bomb were the company's own investors.
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Internal docs and court records: FBI made a push in late 2020 and H1 2021 to deploy Pegasus in criminal investigations, before dropping the plans in July 2021 — Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.'s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research purposes.
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| New York Times: |
An internal Twitter log shows that more than 140,000 accounts had signed up for the new Twitter Blue as of November 10 — The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts.
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| Clive Thompson / UX Collective: |
A look at Mastodon's “antiviral” design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction — Back in 2017 I wrote a short column for Wired about “antiviral” design. — I'd recently been using some fun …
Tweets: @pomeranian99
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: founders of AI startup Laserlike, acquired by Apple in 2018, have left to rejoin Google, including Srinivasan Venkatachary, who led Apple's search team — In late 2018, Apple boosted its development of a web search engine by buying Laserlike, a startup founded by a trio … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Harmonic, which runs a startup search query tool that is used by investors like a16z and Accel, raised a $23M Series A led by Sozo Ventures — Siri, show me fintech companies, founded in the last two years, that haven't raised over the past year but have grown headcount by 100% in the same time frame …
Tweets: @harmonic_ai and @nmasc_
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