Newsweek - Internet Got Hacked This Week, At Least $150,000 in Cryptocurrency Stolen

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In an attack on MyEtherWallet's website, DNS traffic was rerouted to a phishing website using a technique called BGP Hijacking which allowed hackers to steal $150,00 in the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Referenced in this Newsweek article is Security Associate Zach Julian’s blog post An Overview of BGP Hijacking explaining this type of attack.