Scams, Hacks & Breaches

A US banking regulator says a Bank of America employee has illegally accessed customer accounts, leading to tens of thousands of dollars in losses....

A new class-action lawsuit accuses one of the largest banks in the US of failing to properly investigate and handle fraud claims while wrongfully...

Drug cartels in Mexico used Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and other top crypto assets to purchase key ingredients for making the lethal synthetic opioid...

A digital asset security research firm has returned $3 million in funds to crypto exchange Kraken after an unusual saga following a bug bounty...

A Kraken executive says that a black hat entity stole $3 million from the firm after finding a bug in the exchange's systems. In...

The co-founder of Binance is asking billionaire Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X, to address the crypto scams proliferating over the...

One of the largest banks in the US says it has suffered a security breach as a notorious hacker claims sensitive data on thousands...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is settling with crypto exchange Gemini over fraud allegations for $50 million. In a new press release, James...

The US Government has seized $5.25 million in six bank accounts at JPMorgan Chase, alleging the funds are the proceeds of a sophisticated fraud...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says a former US bank employee has admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from customers' accounts. The FDIC...