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Scams, Hacks & Breaches

‘Cryptoqueen’ Associate Receives 20 Years in Prison, Ordered To Surrender $300,000,000

One of the co-founders of the $4 billion OneCoin crypto pyramid scheme has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.…

September 14, 2023

Phisher Who Stole $24,200,000 Worth of Crypto From Whale Moves Funds to Tornado Cash: PeckShield

A crypto security firm says that a phisher who stole $24.2 million worth of staked Ethereum (ETH) is actively moving…

September 13, 2023

US Government Forces SIM Swapper To Forfeit Millions in Bitcoin (BTC) and Sports Car: Report

A US federal court has reportedly ordered a SIM hijacker who allegedly stole crypto worth millions of dollars while in…

September 12, 2023

Vitalik Buterin’s X Account Gets Hacked, Victims Suffer $691,000 in Losses From False NFT Promotion

Hackers were able to compromise the account of Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin on social media platform X and used…

September 11, 2023

US Regulator Slaps Trading Firm With $1,700,000,000+ Penalty for Defrauding Thousands of Victims, Taking 29,420 Bitcoin

The Commodities Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) is hitting a South African Bitcoin (BTC) trading and networking firm with a ban…

September 9, 2023

Court Hands 11,196-Year Prison Sentence to CEO of Exchange That Collapsed With $2,000,000,000+ in Crypto: Report

The chief executive of a collapsed crypto exchange has reportedly been handed a staggering prison sentence of over 11,000 years.…

September 8, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Former FTX Co-CEO To Plead Guilty to Criminal Crypto Charges: Report

The former co-chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is reportedly pleading guilty to criminal charges stemming from the firm’s…

September 7, 2023

US Court Seizes Alex Mashinsky’s Bank Accounts and Texas House: Unsealed Order

New court documents reveal that authorities have seized assets and a house from Alex Mashinksy, the former chief executive of…

September 6, 2023

Tech Entrepreneur Accused of Massive $290,000,000 Crypto Fraud, Theft and Money Laundering: Report

A serial tech entrepreneur is being accused of a slew of potential crimes amounting to a sum of nearly $300…

September 5, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried Collected $905,768,503 in Cash Payments From FTX Months Prior To Collapse: Court Filing

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried received close to a billion dollars in cash payments in the months leading up to…

September 4, 2023