{"id":82270,"date":"2022-08-11T02:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=82270"},"modified":"2022-08-11T02:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:33:22","slug":"hackers-have-stolen-1-4-billion-this-year-using-crypto-bridges-heres-why-its-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2022\/hackers-have-stolen-1-4-billion-this-year-using-crypto-bridges-heres-why-its-happening.html","title":{"rendered":"Hackers have stolen $1.4 billion this year using crypto bridges. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Crypto investors have been hit hard this year by hacks and scams. One reason is that cybercriminals have found a particularly useful avenue to reach them: bridges. Blockchain bridges, which tenuously connect networks to enable the fast swaps of tokens, are gaining popularity as a way for crypto users to transact. But in using them, crypto enthusiasts are bypassing a centralized exchange and using a system that\u2019s largely unprotected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/10\/hackers-have-stolen-1point4-billion-this-year-using-crypto-bridges.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Crypto investors have been hit hard this year by hacks and scams. One reason is that cybercriminals have found a particularly useful avenue to reach them: bridges. Blockchain bridges, which tenuously connect networks to enable the fast swaps of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82271,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82270\/revisions\/82271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}