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Scams, Hacks & Breaches

Cryptocurrency Scammers Sweeping India Put Traders and Investors on Alert

GainBitcoin, one of India’s leading crypto firms, set off a string of scams that have fleeced investors in India out…

June 11, 2018

Bitcoin Drops 10%, Markets Shed $40 Billion Amid Crypto Exchange Hack

The cryptocurrency market is taking a dive amid revelations that the crypto exchange Coinrail has been hacked. At time of…

June 10, 2018

Bitcoin Gold, Verge and Monacoin: Three Cryptocurrencies Hacked in Just One Week

Bitcoin Gold, Verge and Monacoin were all hacked in a single week. The wave of attacks left cryptocurrency exchanges $20…

June 1, 2018

Scammers Face ‘Operation Cryptosweep’ in the Battle Against Cryptocurrency Fraud

The US and Canada have announced the launch of "Operation Cryptosweep" to combat crypto investment schemes. In the largest joint effort…

May 21, 2018

Crypto Crimes: ICO Scams, Robbery and Money Laundering

The rising popularity of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has brought many benefits to the world; however, this hasn’t come without a…

May 16, 2018

Money Laundering at Rabobank Involves Untraceable Cash, Not Bitcoin or Cryptocurrencies

One of the biggest money laundering scandals of the year doesn't involve Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. Dutch banking giant Rabobank is…

May 10, 2018

Bitcoin Scammers Hosting Malicious BTC Wallet Copycat, ‘Electrum Pro’

The team behind popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum says it's identified rogue lines of code on a bogus copycat called "Electrum…

May 9, 2018

Ethereum Smart Contract Bug: Updates from SmartMesh, Enigma, Poloniex and HitBTC

Digital asset exchange OKEX announced today that it suspended deposits of all ERC-20 tokens "due to the discovery of a new…

April 25, 2018

MyEtherWallet (MEW) Hacked – Here’s How to Stay Safe

MyEtherWallet – a popular wallet generator for Ethereum and Ethereum-based tokens – has confirmed it was hacked early this morning. According…

April 24, 2018

Is Your Favorite Website Cryptojacking? Here’s How to Find Out

A recent crawl of more than 175 million websites found active cryptocurrency mining scripts on 23,872 unique domains. That's about 1…

April 4, 2018