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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Cryptocurrency shows no sign of slowing down, and there's a list of mining scam apps you need to know about. Plus, a new phishing email campaign is using the UPS and a really clever tactic to fool people. And Kim and the gang have three smart tech tips you'll wish you knew sooner.
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1:06.2 | It has been a while since we talked about cryptocurrency, which is kind of weird. Bitcoin is almost back up to 50,000. I don't know if you saw this. It was down to 30 at one point. So going good there. |
1:11.5 | The combined crypto market back in July, 1.1 trillion. Now it's up to 2.1 trillion. So it is not |
1:18.0 | slowing down. And now we come to the bad news. You've probably heard the name Coinbase. It's one of the |
1:22.8 | most popular crypto exchanges. Imagine you've got a lot of money in there. You log in and then everything's gone. |
1:29.3 | Uh-oh. CNBC did a report. A bunch of Coinbase users have been hacked, including a couple that |
1:35.4 | logged in to see that their $168,000 was gone. It had vanished after. Wait a minute. It just |
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