Scams, Schemes and Hacks

The VeChain Foundation is calling on cryptocurrency exchanges across the globe to block 1.1 billion in the company's native cryptocurrency, VET.

Anthony Francis Faulk, 23, of Pennsylvania, is facing an indictment by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring to carry out wire fraud and...

Two Romanian residents, Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, and Radu Miclaus, 37, are being sentenced to 20 years and 18 years in prison, respectively, for their...

Alicia Bañuelos, Minister of Science and Technology of Argentina’s local government in San Luis, confirms that hackers launched an attack on a government-owned data...

A crypto analyst says another 58,000 Bitcoin from the PlusToken scam will likely be dumped on the open market in the next couple of...

South Korea's leading cryto exchange says hackers stole 342,000 ETH from its “hot wallets” linked to the internet. While the theft marks another big...

Australia's oldest bank, Westpac, is under fire. The Sydney-based financial services provider, established in 1817 and one of the countries 'big four' banks, is...

Two fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs) have landed a Brooklyn businessman, Maksim Zaslavskiy, in prison. Zaslavskiy was sentenced on Monday to 18 months behind...

A new investigation links Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to the disappearance of $450 million in Bitcoin and crypto. The crypto initially vanished in...

BitMEX, the world's largest Bitcoin and crypto derivatives exchange, has released a statement regarding a security breach with email addresses that are linked to...