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SEC former chief warns influencers about persecution for crypto price manipulation
31.5.2023
SEC has started to clamp down on crypto influencers and has issued several fines and cease and desist orders over the past few years
Alleged TerraUSD Price Manipulation Results in $1.3B Lawsuit Against Jump Trading
14.5.2023
Jump Trading has been sued for conspiring to manipulate the price of TerraUSD (UST) following the stablecoin’s unprecedented collapse.
New Jersey-based resident Taewoo Kim has filed the lawsuit on behalf of affected investors, alleging that Jump Trading acquired substantial quantities of UST...
5 charged by DOJ over alleged crypto price manipulation scheme
25.4.2023
Five people have been charged in relation to alleged market manipulation of an Ethereum-based token called “Hydro.”
SEC wins $2.8M in suit over alleged crypto token price manipulation
24.4.2023
Hydrogen Technology Corp. and its former CEO will pay $2.8 million in fines and remedies for allegedly operating a price manipulation scheme
BonqDAO protocol suffers $120M loss after oracle hack
2.2.2023
An oracle hack allowed the exploiter to manipulate the price of the AllianceBlock token, leading to an estimated $120 million loss, according to Peckshield
Crypto Exchange Bithumb Raided in South Korean Price Manipulation Probe: Report
27.1.2023
South Korean prosecutors are investigating transactions related to a specific person or entity moving the price of a certain coin to make a profit
S Korean Prosecutors Raid Bithumb in Price Manipulation Probe, Hope to Arrest ‘Owner’
26.1.2023
The South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has suffered another double blow from the nation’s prosecutors – who have raided the exchange in a price manipulation probe. Officers also want to arrest Bithumb’s suspected largest shareholder on embezzlement charges.
YTN reported that the Seoul Southern...
Executive Linked to Crypto Exchange Bithumb Found Dead Outside His Home: Report
4.1.2023
An executive of the largest shareholder of cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb was found dead outside his home. He allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a building while under investigation by Korean prosecutors for embezzlement and stock market manipulation. Executive Found Dead Amid...
Prosecutors: We Have Proof Do Kwon ‘Ordered Crypto Price Manipulation’
4.11.2022
South Korean prosecutors say they have evidence that proves the missing Terraform Labs Co-founder Do Kwon told an employee to manipulate coin prices. But Kwon has suggested that he is ready to hold a “meetup,” with “cops from all over the world welcome” to attend....
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South Korean prosecutors accuse Do Kwon of manipulating Terra's price
4.11.2022
Prosecutors have reportedly secured a "messenger conversation" in which Kwon ordered an employee to manipulate Terra's market price
Compound pauses 4 tokens to avoid price manipulation: Finance Redefined
28.10.2022
The last week of October turned bearish for the DeFi market despite the string of hacks, as the majority of the DeFi protocols registered bullish weekly gains
After Mango Market exploit, Compound pauses four tokens to protect against price manipulation
25.10.2022
Compound users can no longer use yearn finance (YFI), 0x (ZRX), basic attention token (BAT) or maker (MKR) tokens as collateral for loans
Moola Market attacker returns most of $9M looted for $500K bounty
19.10.2022
The attacker has scored about a half-million dollar “bug bounty” after choosing to return a majority of the cryptocurrency they exploited from the Celo-based lending protocol
Mango Markets exploiter said actions were ‘legal,’ but was it?
18.10.2022
A crypto lawyer believes the Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg could still face consequences despite users supposedly agreeing not to pursue legal action
GMX Falls Concerning AVAX/USD Price Manipulation
22.9.2022
GMX, the popular decentralized derivatives exchange, recently faced a sudden 20% drop in value, falling below $40, concerning the price manipulation of AVAX/USD. Despite the crypto market facing issues overall, the factors accounting for GMX’s fall differ. Several analysts turned to Twitter...
GMX DEX Falls Victim to $400k Price Manipulation That Made Use of its No Slippage Feature
19.9.2022
The decentralized exchange (DEX) GMX has fallen victim to an exploit by a large and sophisticated trader who reportedly was able to “siphon all the liquidity” from its avalanche (AVAX) market and profit from the manipulated price....
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Decentralized exchange GMX suffers $565K price manipulation 'exploit'
19.9.2022
A founder of a DEX competitor to GMX said on Sept. 2 that an exploit could be pulled off on GMX which could leave GLP holders short. 16 days later, it happened
Skyrocketing Retro Game Price 'Manipulation' Controversy Goes To Court
13.5.2022
The market frenzy leading to record-breaking prices for retro games appears to have slowed since last year, but frustration over the collectible grading firm at the center of the spike hasn’t. Earlier this week a number of Wata Games customers filed a class action lawsuit attempting to put an...
DeFi Lending Protocol Fortress Loses All Funds in Oracle Price Manipulation Attack
9.5.2022
Fortress, decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol with an algorithmic money market and a synthetic stablecoin, has suffered an oracle price manipulation attack that resulted in the loss of all of its funds.
"Fortress has been hit with what we believe is an oracle manipulation attack...
Neutrino Dollar breaks peg, falls to $0.82 amid WAVES price 'manipulation' accusations
4.4.2022
Waves founder Sasha Ivanov says Alameda Research is behind the ongoing WAVES price decline