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Hackers have discovered that one of the most central elements of online security — the mobile phone number — is also one of the easiest to steal. Credit Kevin Hagen for The New York Times

Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency

by Nathaniel Popper | Aug 30, 2017 | Business, Technology

New York- Hackers have discovered that one of the most central elements of online security — the mobile phone number — is also one of the easiest to steal. In a growing number of online attacks, hackers have been calling up Verizon, T-Mobile US, Sprint and AT&T...

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Racks of computers at a server farm mining Bitcoin and Ethereum. Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War

by Nathaniel Popper | Jul 2, 2016 | Business

A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting just blocks from Tiananmen Square. They had come to court the new kingmakers in one of the strangest experiments in money the world has seen: the virtual currency known as Bitcoin....