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Scams, Hacks & Breaches

SEC Granted Permission To Go After Do Kwon’s Close Associate in Korea

A judge has granted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permission to work with international authorities to question one…

August 22, 2023

Bad Actors Deployed Over 500 Scam Crypto Assets on Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 Prior to Launch: Surveillance Firm

A crypto surveillance firm says black hat developers have placed hundreds of malicious tokens on Coinbase’s newly launched Ethereum (ETH)…

August 21, 2023

Hacker Behind $570,000,000 Exploit Gets Manually Liquidated for $52,300,000 by BNB Chain Protocol

The perpetrator who hacked Binance’s internal cross-chain bridge last year and looted $570 million worth of Binance Coin (BNB) just…

August 20, 2023

North Korean Hackers Have Looted $2,000,000,000 Worth of Crypto in the Past Five Years: Blockchain Data Firm

Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs finds that North Korean hackers have looted more than $2 billion worth of crypto in…

August 19, 2023

Hacker Exploits Optimism-Based Decentralized Credit Market for $7,200,000 Worth of Ethereum (ETH)

An Optimism-based (OP) decentralized credit market protocol has been hacked to the tune of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum…

August 19, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried Accused of Stealing Customer Funds To Use for Political Campaign Donations: Report

Federal prosecutors have reportedly accused disgraced former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried of stealing customer funds to make political campaign donations.…

August 16, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried Sent to New York Prison After Federal Judge Revokes Bail: Report

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will reportedly wait for his October trial in prison after a federal judge revoked his…

August 13, 2023

Top Crypto Exchange Binance Sinks $5,000,000 Into Curve (CRV) Following Massive Hack on the DeFi Platform

The venture capital arm of crypto exchange Binance just announced that it is putting money into the native token of…

August 11, 2023

DeFi Platform Curve Offering $1,850,000 Bounty for Identity of Hacker

Curve (CRV) is putting up a bounty to smoke out the hacker who drained the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform of…

August 8, 2023

Criminal Actors Posing As NFT Developers in Crypto Phishing Scams, Warns FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is issuing a warning to investors saying that criminals are posing as developers of…

August 7, 2023