Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges
December 15, 2023 at 03:38PM Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022. He manipulated smart contracts to exploit pricing data, yielding inflated fees, and took advantage of a DeFi protocol loophole. Ahmed used various methods to conceal the stolen funds … Read more