Scams, Hacks & Breaches

Former Alameda Research chief executive Caroline Ellison says former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried directed her to commit fraud. Ellison said Alameda, the trading arm...

Caroline Ellison, close confidant of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, says that the exchange's trading arm Alameda Research paid a bribe to the Chinese...

What FTX listed as its "Insurance Fund" was actually a fake amount calculated with the help of a random number generator, according to court...

Blockchain research firm Elliptic says the amount of funds laundered through cross-chain and cross-asset services reached a ten-figure sum in July this year. In...

A social finance (SocialFi) platform built on Avalanche (AVAX) has suffered losses after bad actors targeted a smart contract vulnerability.  Stars Arena allows content...

The co-founder of bankrupt digital asset exchange FTX says that its sister firm Alameda had been using billions of dollars worth of FTX customer...

A hacker hit web3 platform Galxe (GAL) with a domain attack on Friday morning and appears to have made off with around $200,000. Galxe,...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking to seize two luxury jets that are allegedly owned by former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried....

Three of the perpetrators behind the AirBit Club cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme are now facing jail time and forfeiture of millions worth of illegally acquired...

The US government, Thai police, and the world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume just toppled a multi-million-dollar crypto scam. In a new company...