Scams, Hacks & Breaches

A former employee at a commercial bank in the US just pleaded guilty to draining $105,000 from a deceased customer's account. The US Attorney's...

Two US Senators are writing a bipartisan letter to federal agencies about the potential use of crypto assets by child abusers. According to a...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly looking to hit the disgraced founder of the Terra ecosystem with a multibillion-dollar fine. According...

Imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to cooperate against other defendants in FTX civil litigation. The disgraced former crypto executive has faced civil...

A Bank of America customer says he lost tens of thousands of dollars after bad actors found a way to hijack his account. California...

A decentralized finance (DeFI) protocol has been hacked to the tune of millions of dollars over the Ethereum (ETH) and Arbitrum (ARB) blockchains. In...

A jury has unanimously found the trader behind the $110 million exploit of Solana (SOL)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform Mango Markets guilty in...

A high-ranking member of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says that he is anticipating more crypto cases related to tax violations. In a new...

New York Attorney General Letitia James says one of America's biggest banks does nothing to stop fraudulent wire transfers even after the bank's own...

Banking titan Wells Fargo says it suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information on at least two of its customers. In a letter,...