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Canada Detains Teen for Alleged $36 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
21.11.2021
A teenager has been arrested in Canada after committing what law enforcement officials in Ontario have described as the largest crypto theft by a single person. The Canadian is accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars through a SIM swap targeting a crypto holder in the U.S. Teen Arrested...
Forza Horizon 5 Is Finally Stealing The Show For Microsoft
10.11.2021
The latest game in the open world spin-off series, and the 13th Forza game over all, Forza Horizon 5 is a mostly known quantity. But nearly a decade after the Horizon series started, it feels like many are encountering it for the first time. And they’re loving it, in a way that’s sucking up all...
Ukraine Security Service Busts Criminal Group Selling Bitcoin-Stealing Malware
27.10.2021
Law enforcement authorities in Ukraine have exposed a crime ring specializing in cryptocurrency theft and laundering of illicit funds for hackers. The gang, which provided services to clients on the darknet, has been dismantled as a result of a joint operation carried out with the United States....
Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Four Copies Of Tokyo Revengers Manga Worth $18
22.10.2021
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing four volumes of Tokyo Revengers, a popular manga about hoodlum high school kids. Illustrated and written by Tokyo Revengers, the award-winning Tokyo Revengers is serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. (Full disclosure: My first...
‘Identity Theft’ Criminals Plundering El Salvador Bitcoin Wallet Funds
11.10.2021
een stealing others’ identities to register the app in other people’s names, using stolen ID documents to complete the process – allowing them to accrue larger quantities of BTC.The newspaper El Diario de Hoy’s website
Aussie crypto fund manager sentenced to 7 years for stealing $54M from investors
16.9.2021
A fund manager has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that cheated investors out of $54 million
Russian man gets three-year sentence for stealing a friend’s mining rig
30.8.2021
The 34-year old convict was reportedly not able to make use of the stolen mining equipment due to a “lack of relevant knowledge.”
Mining Hardware Thief Gets 3-Year Sentence in Russia
30.8.2021
Russian authorities have investigated a number of cases involving the theft of crypto mining equipment in the past months. A resident of Yaroslavl has just been found guilty of stealing mining hardware worth over $20,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Russian Convicted of Stealing Mining...
Stealing Game Animation Techniques to Engage Users
25.8.2021
Today’s websites are overflowing with animations—often too many. They get in the way of the content and slow down our busy users. But at the same time: they’re wonderful. They bring websites to life, are fun to implement and …
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Stealing, Giving Back, Taxing and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.8.2021
At the beginning of the week, we saw bitcoin and ethereum rallying, and Axie Infinity has been exploding left and right, hitting major milestones. And then, the historic hack happened with the theft of USD 600m from Poly Network, with the attacker starting to return funds soon, giving back some...
Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearly $7 Million of Crypto in Israel
11.8.2021
Afek Zard, a resident of Israel, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling a large sum of cryptocurrency that belonged to a friend of his. The man, who refused to cooperate with the investigation, will have to pay a hefty fine as well. Israeli Resident Sentenced for Cryptocurrency...
BlockCrushr drops lawsuit accusing ConsenSys of stealing its IP
29.7.2021
ConsenSys described the case’s conclusion as highlighting “the value of aggressively combatting meritless claims.”
Your keys, his coins — Cryptopia employee admits to stealing $172K in crypto
5.7.2021
The theft was first discovered in September and was not yet connected to the crypto exchange going into liquidation the previous year
Ex-Cryptopia Staffer Admits To Stealing USD 176K In Crypto
5.7.2021
In another round of controversies surrounding New Zealand’s collapsed crypto exchange Cryptopia, a former staffer has admitted to stealing customer data and close to NZD 250,000 (USD 176,000) worth of crypto from the platform where he was previously employed.
The unidentified man appeared in...
South African asset manager denies stealing billions from users, claims $5M was lost in hack
29.6.2021
AfriCrypt’s founders deny running off with billions in customers funds, asserting they went into hiding after receiving death threats from “dangerous people.”
UK Police Raid Alleged Cannabis Farm, Finds Bitcoin Mining Facility Stealing Power
31.5.2021
Police from the UK executed a raid in an industrial unit in the West Midlands county expecting to find a cannabis farm, but instead found a big bitcoin mining facility, that was coincidentally bypassing the controls from the local power utility company to siphon energy from the main grid, stealing...
BSC Defi Protocol Burgerswap Loses $7.2 Million from a Flash Loan Attack
29.5.2021
Another Binance Smart Chain project has been hit with a flash loan attack according to a post mortem written by the Burgerswap team. The project’s official Twitter account said at around 3 a.m. on Friday, Burgerswap suffered from a flash loan attack with the hackers stealing $7.2 million...
Researchers Spot New Cryptocurrency Stealing Malware Advertised Under a Subscription Model
5.5.2021
A cryptocurrency-related malware program has been advertised on darknet forums as the “leading way to make money in 2021,” raising alarms among the cybersecurity community. Palo Alto Networks published a report on the malicious app Westeal, detailing the author’s ties with other...
Instagram Influencer Charged for Allegedly Stealing Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin From Followers
27.3.2021
A popular Instagram personality has been charged in the U.S., accused of stealing bitcoins worth millions of dollars from his followers. He allegedly convinced the “victims to sell him their bitcoin at attractive, but inflated, values” but he never wired them the money for the coins...
Individual Detained in Romania Under Suspicion of Stealing Thousands of Cryptos From an Unnamed Major Exchange
15.3.2021
Romanian authorities pursued an operation that left a person detained for the individual’s alleged involvement in a case of stealing from a cryptocurrency exchange. The investigation revealed that the unnamed trading platform company is located in the Cayman Islands. Over $620,000 Stolen...