Alex Dovbnya Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime has announced biggest cryptocurrency seizure in country’s history The National Aut...
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Hacker Exploits BonqDAO in $120 Million AllinaceBlock Heist
Bad actors hacked BonqDAO to steal tokens worth nearly $120 million. Dumped tokens caused ALBT and BEUR to drop by over 50% and 34%, respectively. AllianceBlock promises to compensate users while reas...
SIM swapper sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a $22 million cryptocurrency heist
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Nicholas Truglia, of Florida, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for his role in a fraud scheme that resulted in th...
Feds Seize Silk Road Hacker’s 50,676 BTC Worth Over $3,600,000,000 Ten Years After Massive Heist
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history, and the second-largest financial seizure ever. According to an announcemen...
Brink’s driver was asleep during California jewelry heist, lawsuit claims
LOS ANGELES — One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole...
BAYC Stolen in a Digital Heist, Cameo CEO Lost NFTs
Blockchain technology is considered as an epitaph for security. Projects based on blockchain hence meant to be highly secured and well managed. Cryptocurrencies and Non-fungible tokens, both the new a...
A real life Money Heist — these are the 10 biggest bank robberies of all time, including who got caught and who got away
A real life Money Heist — these are the 10 biggest bank robberies of all time, including who got caught and who got away Along with winning the lottery, robbing a bank is a time-honored technique used...
Cross-Chain Bridge Nomad Loses $190 Million Making It 2022’s Third-Largest Crypto Heist – Bitcoin News
On Monday, the cross-chain token bridge Nomad was attacked and hackers managed to siphon $190 million from the protocol, draining a great majority of the funds. The Nomad cross-chain bridge attack was...
North Korea lambasts the US over link to crypto heist
North Korea has reprimanded the United States over claims of the former’s involvement in crypto cybercrime. The spokesperson of North Korea’s foreign ministry criticized the remarks of the U.S on the ...
Audius: Autopsy of $6m music heist reveals some out of key notes
Hacks within the cryptocurrency domain are very frequent. Recently, a decentralized music platform Auduis suffered as it lost 18.5 million AUDIO tokens ($6m) following a malicious attack. Broken strin...
Mexican Beauty Queen Allegedly Led Cops On 9-Month Global Chase Over $1.7 Million Wine Heist At Michelin Restaurant
Topline A former beauty pageant contestant from Mexico has reportedly been arrested in Croatia after a nine-month police chase across Europe over allegations she and an accomplice stole 45 bottles of ...
Heather Morgan of Bitfinex Crypto Heist Cleared to Seek Proper Employment
American rapper and entrepreneur Heather Morgan, indicted for contriving with her husband Ilya Lichtenstein to launder money, has been permitted by a judge to seek proper employment. Her case will sti...
Yam Finance DeFi Platform Successfully Foils Potential $3.1 Million Heist – crypto.news
Yam Finance DeFi protocol has successfully prevented a malicious governance attack that would have allowed a hacker to steal the entire funds in its treasury. Decentralized finance protocols are now m...
How the recent $100 million cryptocurrency heist is inspiring debates about regulation
The recent $100 million cryptocurrency theft from Harmony, a US blockchain business that created the Horizon Bridge key (a service that connects two blockchains and allows users to transfer cryptocurr...
Hackers In A $620 Million Cryptocurrency Heist Are Eager To Cash Out
Not only had the North Korean hackers pulled off a daring theft, but the loot’s worth had climbed 15% while they sat on their hands. Since then, things have progressed quickly, and these crimina...
The Copy Paste Heist: When Someone Right Clicked Every Existing NFT
NFTs are considered as unique digital art persisting on the blockchain, and cannot be interchanged like the crypto assets. NFT is a booming concept, especially when it exploded the previous year, when...
Exploited Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord Admin Leads To 200 ETH Heist
Time and time again, we are seeing social media and communication mediums such as Discord, Telegram and others become a point of vulnerability for major NFT projects. That was exhibited once again tod...
NEAR Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge Escapes Potential Heist, Hacker Loses 2.5 ETH – crypto.news
The NEAR Protocol Rainbow Bridge has survived a potential heist, as an attacker’s attempt to steal funds on the network was promptly uncovered and foiled by security bots on the platform, resulting in...
Multimillion dollar heist at DEUS finance; DeFi world shocked
DeFi world woke up on Thursday to news of a hacker stealing millions Multimillion-dollar break in about the burglary of around $13.5 million was uncovered DEUS Finance DAO was affected this time with...
Cryptocurrency Heist Investigator Reveals How Much Twitter Influencers Receive To Shill New Projects
– Advertisement – Cryptocurrency Heist Investigator Reveals That Twitter Influencers Receive Up to $25,000 to Shill New Projects. Following the rising cases of crypto rug pull scams, an ...
Over $180 million wiped in stablecoin protocol Beanstalk flash loan heist
As the cryptocurrency market develops and grows, the more enticing its participants become to hackers. In the latest instance of a major attack on a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, Ethereum-bas...
North Korean Hackers Linked to $615M Ronin Bridge Heist
The Lazarus hacking group in North Korea has been linked with the crypto industry’s largest-ever hack according to the U.S. Treasury and blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The U.S. Treasury and FB...
Sky Mavis Launches $1 Million Bug Bounty Program After Crypto Heist
Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Co-Founder and COO of Sky Mavis software development studio, announced on Tuesday that it launched a $1 million bug bounty campaign aimed to improve the security of Axie Inf...
Ringleader Of ‘Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist’ Ordered To Pay Multi-Million Dollar Fine
Topline The Canadian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the convicted ringleader of an early 2010s scheme that made off with about one-eighth of Quebec’s strategic maple syrup supply to pay a fin...
Bitcoin Prices Steady After Crypto Heist. A Prominent Whale Is Getting Bigger.
Text size Bitcoin prices have held onto recent gains. Rutmer Visser/Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were mostly steady on Wednesday, holding onto recent gains and shaking off pressure on...
Hackers Rob $600 Million in Crypto Heist
Hackers have stolen $600 million from a blockchain network that is connected to the Axie Infinity online game. It is one of the biggest cryptocurrency attacks. A computer called nodes operated by Axie...
Ronin Network Suffers $615 Million Crypto Heist
Ronin Network, a blockchain project, was reportedly a victim of a cyberattack after hackers managed to steal around $615 million worth of cryptocurrencies, becoming one of the largest crypto heists to...
OpenSea’s User Activity Tumbles by Almost 20% After $3 Million NFT Heist
Third-party blockchain tracking services have reported a rapid drop in user activity on OpenSea following the $3 million NFT heist that took place three days ago, according to Bloomberg. The platform ...
Multichain Retrieves $2.6 Million Stolen In January Crypto Heist
Cross-chain router platform Multichain said it has recorded nearly 50% of the cash stolen from its protocol last month. The platform said it recovered 912.7984 WETH and 125 AVAX, worth $2.55 million a...
‘The Endgame’ Is A Twisty Heist Thriller With Two Very Determined Women On Opposite Sides Of The Law
THE ENDGAME — Morena Baccarin as Elena Federova, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Val. Eric Liebowitz/NBC It’s all about the accent, says Morena Baccarin. She’s talking about her role in The Endgame, a new high...