Scams, Hacks & Breaches

Hotbit is temporarily shutting down following a cyber attack that paralyzed a number of its central services.  In a statement, the Chinese crypto exchange...

FBI agents have arrested Roman Sterlingov, the alleged principal operator of Bitcoin Fog, a website that offers Bitcoin (BTC) "tumbler" or "mixer" services designed...

Reports indicate that a Turkish crypto exchange used the popular cryptocurrency Dogecoin as bait to lure investors into a fraudulent scheme. The Agence-France Presse (AFP)...

Hackers have hit decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms PancakeSwap (CAKE) and Cream Finance (CREAM) in simultaneous attacks that sought to compromise users' private keys. In...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform PAID Network Protocol is dealing with the aftermath of an exploit in which the attacker got away with millions of...

Google and D-Wave Systems say they've achieved a new milestone in the world of quantum computing. In a press release, D-Wave says its quantum...

Pornhub payment option Verge (XVG) is suffering from a brutal attack that allowed malicious actors to orchestrate what appears to be one of the...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) yield aggregator yearn.finance (YFI) reveals the details of a hacking incident that caused a total loss of $11 million to the...

Australian financial institutions laundered $387 million for Latin American cocaine cartels, according to a new report. The Australian Financial Review says that the money-laundering...

A hacker successfully cracks decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Cover Protocol en route to printing 40 quintillion COVER tokens and decimating the supply. In a...