New York-based Instagram influencer Jebara Igbara—who went by the online pseudonym Jay Mazini—has pled guilty to an assortment of crimes including stealing $2.5 million worth of Bitcoin from his follo...
Tag: Stealing
Two Americans Sent to Prison for Stealing Crypto by SIM Swapping
The residents of Massachusetts – Erig Meiggs and Declan Harrington – will go to jail for two years for stealing approximately $330,000 worth of cryptocurrency from victims. The criminals employed mult...
New Method of Stealing Coins Emerges
Arman Shirinyan One of biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in world might be target of hackers According to the most recent WuBlockchain report, hackers found a new way of stealing users’ coins dir...
Fake Cardano Mobile Wallet Is Stealing Users’ Funds
According to numerous social media reports, scammers have created what looks like an official Nami Cardano wallet for mobile devices but in fact acts as a phishing application that steals users’...
MouseBelt Sued Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, Stealing Data of Blockchain Startup Work
MouseBelt filed a case against Brian Armstrong in the Supreme Court of California. The Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, is alleged to have robbed the work of a blockchain accele...
The Head Chef of SushiSwap Accused of Stealing Funds
The newly appointed Head Chef of SushiSwap, charged with slipping funds from the crypto community. Through a crypto wallet project, the SushiSwap Head Chef stole the funds, accusal say. However, he de...
Brazil Police Busted the ‘Bitcoin Sheikh’ for Stealing Over $766 Million (Report)
Brazil’s Federal Police reportedly halted the operations of a criminal gang led by the businessman Francisco Valdevino da Silva, a.k.a “Bitcoin Sheikh.” The authorities claimed that the wrongdoers def...
Former ‘Real Housewives’ Star Bethenny Frankel Sues TikTok, Alleging App Profits From Scammers Stealing Her Likeness
Bethenny Frankel says she’s had enough of scammers on TikTok using her voice, image or content to sell counterfeit products. The entrepreneur and star of “The Real Housewives of New York” filed a fede...
What all that stealing says about America
I recently went to my neighborhood drug store in New York City to buy some Tylenol and saw it was locked up on a plastic shelf—as was much of the store’s stock. We’re used to seeing expensive jewelry ...
Man Jailed for Stealing $18,830 Worth of Crypto From Late Uncle’s Wallet
A young man has been sentenced to two years in prison for stealing crypto assets worth roughly £17,000 (approx. $18,830) from his late uncle’s wallet. According to a report by WalesOnline, the defenda...
Wells Running Out Of Water, Making Meat From The Air, And Stealing $250 Million From Hungry Children
Climate Week in New York City has me buzzing. On Tuesday at Forbes’ inaugural Sustainability Leaders Summit, I led two back-to-back fireside chats about whether modern agriculture—built on cheap energ...
DOJ Charges 47 People With Stealing $250 Million From Child Nutrition Program
Topline The Department of Justice charged 47 people in Minnesota with allegedly stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income students—the largest in a string of massi...
Florida Man Faces Five Years in Prison for Stealing $100M Worth of Crypto
Joshua David Nicholas – a resident of Florida – pleaded guilty that he and other members of the cryptocurrency platform EmpiresX skimmed investors with $100 million worth of digital assets. He now fac...
Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing $100 Million in Crypto Ponzi Scheme
A Florida man pleaded guilty in federal district court on Thursday to participating in a cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of approximately $100 million, the Department of Jus...
Former Deutsche Bank Executive and Ex-OCC Chief Says Crypto Firms Stealing Banks’ Turf: Report
The former head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) during the Clinton administration reportedly says that crypto firms competing with banks currently have the advantage. According ...
Dubai Gang Jailed for Stealing $462,800 From a Crypto Investor
A Dubai court has sentenced a gang of four to three years in prison. The convicts are in jail for assaulting and stealing about Dhs1.7 million (approx. $462,800) from a crypto investor based in Dubai,...
Charles Hoskinson Says Burning ADA Would Mean Stealing It from Holders, Here’s Why
Yuri Molchan Cardano founder explains why ADA burns cannot be done despite persistent requests from some in the community Contents Here’s why no ADA can be burned SHIB army burns tokens regularly Foun...
How Bitcoin Phishing Scams Are Stealing Millions
Phishing comes in many forms. The main target of any cybercrime is to generate money from duplicitous actions. When a hacker targets an international business and steals their data, there is a financi...
Two Plead Guilty To Stealing Ashley Biden’s Diary, Selling It To Project Veritas For $40,000
Topline Two Florida residents who stole a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley have pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges over the theft and later sale of its contents to Proj...
Celsius accuses former manager of stealing millions of dollars in new lawsuit
The circumstances surrounding the collapse of crypto lender Celsius continue to take a new twist after the firm accused a former manager of overseeing the loss of millions of dollars. The now bankrup...
Bankrupt Celsius Files Counter Lawsuit Against Trading Firms for Allegedly Stealing Crypto Assets
Embattled crypto lending firm Celsius Network is suing its former business partner and the investment firm’s co-founder for deceit, incompetence and unauthorized possession of property. In a complaint...
Engineer admits stealing Apple Car trade secrets before trying to flee to work for rivals in China
A former Apple employee has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from the company regarding its highly secretive self-driving car project. Xiaolang Zhang was charged on Aug. 22 at a court in San J...
DEX Platform Velodrome Accuses Coder Gabagool of Stealing $350K
Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Velodrome has come out to accuse one of its in-house developers, Gabagool, of stealing the sum of $350,000 from the platform. As revealed by the platform, there was unus...
Curve Finance Hackers Stealing Around 570,000 USD
How Did it Happen? When malevolent hackers targeted Curve front Finance’s end, they found a vulnerability and stole bitcoin worth about 570,000 USD. Curve Finance is a DeFi liquidity pool behemo...
Hacker pockets $1.1 million after stealing from music streaming protocol Audius
Decentralized music streaming protocol Audius reported that a hacker stole funds from its community treasury using a malicious governance vote. According to security firm CertiK, the hacker successfu...
Two Ethereum NFTs Stealing The Show At NFT NYC, Doodles And Goblintown
The NFT NYC has been in the limelight among Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) enthusiasts. But it seems like Goblintown and Doodles, two of the most popular NFT projects, had more of the limelight. NFT...
Nexo responds to accusations of stealing donations, siphoning funds from charity
Cryptocurrency lending platform Nexo has hit back at what it called “fake news” and rumors that its founders were part of a charity embezzlement scandal, saying the claims are untrue and defamatory. I...
Crypto hackers broke into the Harmony server stealing around $100 million
Recently a crypto hackers group who possibly maintain their operations in the US attacked the crypto firm Harmony. The blockchain company reportedly lost around $100 million after a massive hack in th...
Russia’s New Economic Policy: Famine, Looting And Stealing?
A wheat field at a farm in southern Ukraine’s Odessa region, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by GENYA … [+] SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images In the 1920s, despair prompted Soviet...
Terraform Labs Employee In Hot Water For Stealing Company’s Bitcoin
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency launched an investigation against an employee from Terraform Labs, who is allegedly involved in the embezzlement of corporate funds in Bitcoin from the company in May....
Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology in US Now Thrives in China
(Bloomberg) — Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML Holding NV, a Dutch manufacturer whose equipment plays an integral role in ma...