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"Meta to Shutter Novi Crypto Payments Wallet in September, Ending Libra Saga"

2022-07-01 [vendor] Meta
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Incident Details

Diem, formerly known as Libra, was a stablecoin-based payments system proposed by Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Novi, formerly Calibra (are you keeping up?), was a crypto wallet and crypto-based money transfer pilot project run by the company. The app was advertised as a solution for sending remittances, and claimed it would help provide “equal access to financial services”.Libra-now-Diem ground to a halt after concerns from regulatory bodies and the general public, with Facebook-now-Meta abandoning the project in January 2022. Now they’ve announced they’ll be shutting down Calibra-now-Novi, too, and have advised users to withdraw their balance “as soon as possible”. Users won’t be able to add money to their accounts beginning on July 21.

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Meta

Timeline

  1. 2022-07-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-07-01 Publicly disclosed