by Judd Bagley | Jun 6, 2023 | Insight
This week it emerged that the decentralized Atomic Wallet software was hacked, and millions stolen as a result. This is significant for many reasons, the primary being that the keys were taken from many individual users’ private devices, not from a centralized...
by Judd Bagley | May 25, 2023 | Education
As a crypto insurance company, Evertas is all about helping our crypto custodian clients prevent covered events — primarily the theft of digital assets. But the reason we exist is because while the risk of hacks can be made extremely small, if a custodian is to...
by Judd Bagley | Feb 17, 2023 | Insight
Evertas leadership joined crypto exchange builder Chad Garrett for a fascinating Twitter Spaces panel dedicated to looking at some of the most interesting hacks of blockchain projects and how they transpired. Our Chief Security Officer Ryan Lackey is an expert in...
by Judd Bagley | Nov 2, 2022 | Insight
1. Mt. Gox (2014) The first few months of 2014 were a surreal time for the world of crypto. It started on January 10, when Overstock.com became the first online retailer to accept bitcoin as payment. Then, on February 1, the price of bitcoin spiked to what, at the...
by Judd Bagley | Oct 14, 2022 | Insight
Evertas Chief Security Officer Ryan Lackey took the stage at Devcon VI in Bogotá, Colombia to join a panel discussion about major blockchain-related security incidents in the three years since Devcon V. Devcon is a major Ethereum developers event. Ryan’s panel...
