Scams, Hacks & Breaches

Earlier this week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled charges against Hollywood action star Steven Seagal, after he violated the anti-touting provisions...

Former Microsoft software engineer Volodymyr Kvashuk was convicted Tuesday in the United States District Court in Seattle for stealing more than $10 million in...

The rise in the number of initial coin offerings (ICO) and initial exchange offerings (IEO) is giving unscrupulous individuals the opportunity to run crypto-related...

Law firm Deminor, located in Brussels, says it has filed legal charges against Thomas Borgen, the ousted chief executive officer of Denmark’s Danske Bank,...

Irish authorities cannot access the confiscated Bitcoin of convicted drug dealer Clifton Collins because of a lost fishing rod. The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB)...

Clifton Collins, a convicted drug dealer from a Southside suburb in Dublin, Ireland, has to hand over a Bitcoin fortune worth €52 million ($56...

Dark Towers is the highly-anticipated exposé of Deutsche Bank by award-winning author and financial editor at The New York Times, David Enrich. It traces...

The founder and CEO of mobile Bitcoin wallet DropBit, Larry Harmon, is facing federal charges for allegedly running a crypto money laundering operation. The...

The team behind the cryptocurrency IOTA is investigating a cyber attack and theft of an undisclosed amount of funds. IOTA, the 23rd-largest cryptocurrency in...

Dutch police are investigating two letter bombs that exploded on Wednesday. The first explosion occurred at a bank and the other at an electronics...