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NFT Artist Deekay Kwon’s Wallet Attacked, Life Savings Stolen
11.10.2024
Korean NFT artist DeeKay Kwon shared today that his wallet was stolen and all his life savings were…
Meet the hackers that can help get your crypto life savings back
10.7.2024
Lost crypto password? These are the hackers who have made a living getting yours back
67% Nigerians Trust in Bitcoin for Life Savings than Traditional Methods: Research
25.4.2024
Nigeria and UAE have topped in the use of Bitcoin for daily transactions, compared to Germany and the UK.
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Bitcoin Returns To All-Time High In Canadian Dollar After PM Said It “Destroyed” People’s Life Savings
4.3.2024
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) now trades at an all-time high against the Canadian dollar roughly seventeen months after the nation’s leader slammed digital currencies as an “irresponsible” investment.
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Crypto Scammers Swipe $123K in stETH from Nest Wallet Founder in Fake Airdrop
2.1.2024
The Nest Wallet founder has lost his life savings in an elaborate fake crypto airdrop scam. Image by Kerem Goktug Kaya, DALL-E 3. In a sobering reminder of the prevalence of cryptocurrency scams, Nest Wallet co-founder Bill Lou revealed on Tuesday he fell victim to an elaborate fake airdrop scheme...
Report Exposes Warrantless Cash Searches at Atlanta Airport
22.10.2023
In a startling investigation report, Atlanta News First uncovered the concerning practices of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officers. At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, DEA officers, in plain clothes, have been found searching passengers’...
Bankman-Fried’s Legal Team Cries Foul Over Ukrainian Customer Testimony
3.10.2023
Attorneys for Sam Bankman-Fried have written a letter to the judge, requesting the court block a government witness, a Ukrainian customer who “lost a substantial portion” of his life savings due to the FTX collapse. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers believe the witness’s testimony...
Euler hacker seemingly taking their chances, sends funds to crypto mixer
16.3.2023
Before the move, the hacker apparently refunded at least one victim, leading to a slew of on-chain messages from other purported victims
FTX Employees Were Encouraged to Keep Life Savings in the Now-Bankrupt Exchange, Sources Say
16.11.2022
Sources told CoinDesk that FTX was used as a bank by many of its employees. Now, their money is probably gone
Cryptocurrency Is ‘Based on Nothing,’ Should Be Regulated, ECB’s Lagarde Says
21.5.2022
President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has insisted that unlike a digital euro, cryptocurrency has no underlying asset. It should be regulated to prevent people from losing their life savings by speculating on crypto assets, the top ECB official has suggested. Cryptocurrency...
Former Employees From Major South Korean Firms Quit Their Jobs After Pocketing Millions in Crypto Profits
24.4.2021
South Korea’s crypto-sphere has been witnessing a volatile environment in terms of regulatory moves, as bitcoin prices and other altcoins are also having wild moves. Such a scenario hasn’t stopped the country’s middle class to profit from the crypto market, even with very...
Man Loses Life Savings to Phony Bitcoin iOS App- Over a Million Dollars in BTC Drained
1.4.2021
Just recently, an individual lost all of his life savings in a matter of no time after he downloaded a malicious and phony Trezor application onto his iOS smartphone from Apple’s App Store. Phillipe Christodoulou lost 17.1 bitcoin or over a million dollars worth of the cryptocurrency using...
1 billion people will store life savings on their phone in Bitcoin by 2026 — MicroStrategy CEO
23.2.2021
The next five years will see the first billion people opting to store their wealth using Bitcoin simply using mobile devices, says the MicroStrategy CEO
Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allegedly Loses Life Savings
13.12.2020
The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users...
Defi Project Yfdex.Finance Vanishes With $20M Investors’ Funds Just Two Days After Launch
11.9.2020
Yfdex.Finance (Yfdex), a new liquidity mining pool, has reportedly exit scammed, making off with up to $20 million of investors’ funds. The decentralized finance (Defi) project convinced people to hand over their life savings following just two days of aggressive marketing on social media...
Yellow Card CEO reminisces about losing his life savings on LocalBitcoins
4.9.2020
Early mistakes can mean big losses