Patrick Duffy – a certified public accountant (CPA) – is just one of several people in the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA) that appears to have fallen victim to heavy crypto fraud purportedly being condu...
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ByteDance Employees Can Easily Access U.S. TikTok Data, Whistleblower Allegedly Tells Hawley
Topline Controls preventing employees at TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance from accessing U.S. data might be weaker than both companies have previously suggested, according to allega...
Tesla Steering Wheels That Allegedly Fall Off While Driving Under Probe
Topline Tesla is under investigation by U.S. auto safety regulators over complaints that steering wheels have fallen off new Model Y vehicles during driving, according to a filing Wednesday, the lates...
Missing $96,000 is your problem, Coinbase allegedly told account holder who had life savings cleaned out
Coinbase is being sued after allegedly telling a man who said he lost $96,000 on its site to theft that it wasn’t the company’s problem. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court, pl...
Passenger Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Stab Flight Attendant And Open Door On Boston-Bound Flight
Topline A 33-year-old man was arrested Sunday evening at Boston Logan International Airport after authorities said he tried to open an emergency exit door during a United Airlines flight from Los Ange...
Tether companies allegedly used fake documents to access banking services
Some companies behind Tether (USDT) reportedly used fake paperwork and shell companies to get bank accounts after the stablecoin’s then-banking partner, Wells Fargo, halted services for several of Tet...
French Police Arrest Hackers Allegedly Associated With Exploit of Avalanche-Based DeFi Protocol
The French National Police have arrested two individuals allegedly behind the $9.19 million hack on Avalanche (AVAX)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance. The French police als...
NFT designer arrested for allegedly evading crypto tax in Israel
A prominent designer based in Tel Aviv was arrested on Sunday by Israeli authorities for allegedly failing to disclose cryptocurrency earnings in tax reports, according to the Jerusalem Post. Ben Benh...
Former facilities worker who allegedly set up a secret cryptocurrency mining operation
After skipping a planned court appearance to respond to accusations, a former facilities worker who is accused of setting up a covert bitcoin mining operation inside a Massachusetts school’s cra...
Massachusetts Resident Allegedly Set up a Secret Crypto Miner Under a School (Report)
Nadeam Nahas – a 39-year-old former US state of Massachusetts employee – reportedly faces charges of placing a cryptocurrency mining operation in a remote space at a local school. Court documents cla...
Mormon Church Will Pay Millions In SEC Settlement Over Investment Portfolio Allegedly Saving For ‘Second Coming Of Christ’
Topline The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Tuesday for violating federal tax laws, after a whistleblower revealed the church had ...
Stablegains Sued for Allegedly Misleading Investors
The decentralized finance yield platform known as Stablegains is the subject of a legal action that has been brought against it in a court in the state of California on the grounds that it allegedly d...
Stablegains sued for allegedly misleading investors on UST as a safe investment
Stablegains, a decentralized finance (DeFi) yield platform, is facing legal action in California for allegedly misleading investors and violating securities laws. Plaintiffs Alec and Artin Ohanian fil...
OneCoin’s ‘Crypto Queen’ allegedly died in 2018, new documents reveal
OneCoin founder, Ruja Ignatova, was allegedly killed in November 2018 on a yacht, based on new information. The so-called “Crypto Queen” has been missing since 2017. Ignatova allegedly murdered The lo...
SEC charges Do Kwon for allegedly misleading crypto customers
Well, if developments around the FTX collapse were not disastrously interesting enough, then we have Terra making its way back to the highlights again. It all started with TerraUSD slipping below the ...
Former CEO of TMON Gets an Arrest Warrant for Allegedly Receiving LUNA Bribes (Report)
The South Korean authorities reportedly issued an arrest warrant to a former Chief Executive Officer of the e-commerce giant TMON. He supposedly accepted bribes in Terra (LUNA) worth billions of won t...
Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly used VPN to watch Super Bowl
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the failed crypto exchange FTX, allegedly utilizes a VPN to access the internet, potentially creating controversies in his bail terms. In a letter dated Feb. 13, U...
US SEC allegedly notified Paxos of an upcoming lawsuit tied to Binance USD (BUSD)
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The US SEC has made a series of drastic moves targeting the crypto sector. First, it announced that unregistered staking is no lo...
SEC Reportedly Probes Mormon Church Over $100 Billion Investment Portfolio Allegedly Saved For ‘Second Coming Of Christ’
Topline The Securities Exchange Commission is investigating the Mormon Church over allegations it failed to disclose investments in a secretive $100 billion portfolio, the Wall Street Journal reported...
Dinosaur Yield allegedly rug pulled
Dinosaur Yield, a cross-chain farming aggregator, has allegedly been rug pulled, its pools drained, token minted, and dumped. Notably, the platform’s Twitter account has also been deleted. Possible ru...
Manchester City At Risk Of Premier League Ban After Allegedly Breaking Various Financial Rules
Topline The English Premier League accused Manchester City of violating dozens of financial rules in a Monday statement, outlining various charges that could result in the expulsion of the two-time re...
Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Mixon Issued Arrest Warrant For Allegedly Pointing Gun At Woman
Topline The Cincinnati Bengals’ starting running back Joe Mixon was reportedly issued an arrest warrant Thursday for one count of aggravated menacing for allegedly pointing a gun at a woman in downtow...
Apple App Store and Google Play allegedly infested with crypto fraud apps
Sophos, a cybersecurity firm, has revealed that operators of high-yielding investment schemes known as ‘pig butchering’ have discovered a way to evade security measures in Google Play and Apple’s App ...
UK woman allegedly lost $25K bitcoin in attempt to hire hitman
A UK court has branded a dark web site advertising bitcoin-for-hire hitmen an “absolute sham” and “palpable nonsense” after a woman, who allegedly tried to have a one-time fling murdered, lost $25,000...
Binance blocks accounts allegedly linked to Bitzlato
Binance exchange has temporarily suspended several accounts linked to Bitzlato transactions after the latter exchange got entangled in regulations. Most of these accounts reportedly belong to Russians...
Prosecutors Say SBF Allegedly Uses Signal To Influence Witnesses
US prosecutors have requested that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) bail condition be tightened. The prosecutors want to prevent him from contacting former employees of his bankrupt firms or usin...
SBF allegedly used FTX money to invest $400M in obscure VC firm
Authorities in the United States might have discovered yet another possible component of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire. U.S. federal prosecutors have alleged that Bankman-Fried has used mo...
Robinhood Twitter account allegedly hacked to promote fake token
Robinhood’s Twitter account has been allegedly hacked. The malicious actors behind the alleged cyberattack used Roinhood’s official account to promote a scam disguised as an official token launch. The...
SEC charges Mango Markets exploiter for allegedly stealing $116M in crypto
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has followed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and others in filing parallel charges against the crypto user allegedly behind a multimillion...
SEC charges Mango Markets exploiter for allegedly stealing $116M in crypto – Cryptopolitan
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and other regulatory bodies in bringing charges against a cryptocurrency user who ...