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Ledger Issues Update on Data Breach That Leaked Personal Information of 272,000 Customers

The CEO of crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger has posted a letter to hundreds of thousands of customers whose personal…

December 22, 2020

President Trump Considering Pardon for Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht: Report

In his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering whether he should grant clemency to Silk…

December 17, 2020

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team Says Cyber Thieves Using Crypto Asset Monero As Decoy While Attacking Nation States

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) says that a nation-state hacker group is using crypto mining malware and other advanced…

December 2, 2020

Crypto Analysts React After China Seizes $4,200,000,000 in Bitcoin and Eight Altcoins

Analysts and influencers are reacting to reports that China has seized $4.2 billion in crypto connected to one of the…

November 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency-Related Crimes Dropping in 2020 – But DeFi Hacks Are Skyrocketing

A new report from the crypto intelligence company CipherTrace shows that crime in the cryptocurrency space is on the decline,…

November 16, 2020

Is the US Government Quietly Hoarding Bitcoin? Analyst Explores America’s Crypto ‘Black Hole’

Crypto analyst and influencer Tyler Swope suspects the US government is accumulating Bitcoin seized from some of the world's most…

November 15, 2020

Conviction of Former Microsoft Employee Proves Bitcoin Can’t Hide Criminal Behaviors, Says IRS

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says the conviction of a former Microsoft engineer who tried to use Bitcoin to hide…

November 11, 2020

KuCoin Hack Approaches $200,000,000 in Stolen ETH, BTC, LTC, XRP, BSV, XLM, TRX, and USDT

Crypto exchange KuCoin has lost almost $200 million worth of cryptocurrencies in Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin, XRP, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, Stellar,…

September 28, 2020

IRS Will Pay $625,000 to Anyone Who Can Crack Monero, While Binance Offers $100,000,000 to Coders Building on DeFi

The US Internal Revenue Service says it's ready to give a cash reward of $625,000 to anyone who cracks Monero…

September 11, 2020

$715,000,000 Bitcoin (BTC) Wallet Up For Grabs Among Crypto Sleuths

A Bitcoin wallet said to be holding more than $715 million worth of BTC is being passed around a community of…

September 10, 2020