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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ARK Fund declines: High Interest Rates Claim Another Victim
ARK Fund, the actively managed Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), has declined since September 2022 due to a high policy interest rate. Cathie Wood’s ARK Fund, under normal conditions, invests nearly 65% of ...
Indian Student Committed Suicide After Becoming a Victim to a Bitcoin Scam (Report)
A second-year B.Com student from the Indian city Lucknow reportedly hanged himself after losing a bitcoin investment worth ₹3.5 lahks ($4,200). The local police assured they will investigate the tragi...
Debate over 2FA using SMS after sim-swapping victim sues Coinbase
The crypto community is debating whether SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) should ever be used for account security following news that a Coinbase customer is suing the cryptocurrency exchange for $...
Coinbase declines to issue reimbursement to a hacking victim amid Base AML/KYC concerns – Cryptopolitan
According to a March 7 Bloomberg article, Coinbase declined to take responsibility for a hacking victim or issue a reimbursement. The firm gave its response in a court filing on March 6 in response to...
Dutch police recover 90% of victim decryption keys in ransomware scam
Listen to this article. The Dutch National Police have disrupted the Deadbolt ransomware group, recovering the decryption keys of 90% of victims that contacted police, according to a report by Chainal...
DeFi project LaunchZone claims to be latest victim of BNB chain exploits
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol LaunchZone has claimed an attacker has drained 80% of funds in its liquidity pool, worth $700,000. LaunchZone claims to be “the ultimate DeFi platform.” The BNB C...
Ethereum Denver Website Fallen Victim to Scammers
2 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News The ETHDenver conference website scammed by fraudsters in a fake website. Blockfence noticed the fake website. The Ethereum Denver conference website duplicated ...
Crypto Hedge Fund Galois Capital Is Latest Victim of FTX Collapse
As per reports, Galois Capital has nearly $100 million worth of funds stuck with the crypto exchange FTX. The contagion of FTX’s collapse last year in November 2022 continues to spread across the cryp...
Victim of crypto ransomware? Here’s what to do
In recent days, the mainstream news channels have featured, quite sensationally, the hacker attack on a number of institutional websites, Italian and others, which hackers from all over the world alle...
LocalBitcoins Becomes Latest Victim of Crypto Winter
Finland-based P2P Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins will close its doors after ten years as crypto winter proves too much. The exchange suspended new sign-ups on Feb. 9, 2023, and will stop trading on F...
DEX aggregator CoW Swap falls victim to $180,000 hack
Decentralized exchange aggregator CoW Swap suffered a major hack, with the attacker making off with over $180,000 in funds, according to security firms PeckShield and BlockSec. As a decentralize...
Middlesex County Citizen Falls Victim to Crypto Fraud
A resident of Middlesex County in the United Kingdom has fallen victim to crypto fraud and lost more than $100K at the time of writing. Fraud Continues to Be a Big Problem Police authorities suggest t...
Voyager Victim Files Motion to Appoint External Trustee
Voyager creditor and financial lawyer Michelle DiVita has filed a motion to have a trustee appointed to handle the crypto lender’s estate. The collapse of the Terra ecosystem was one of the most signi...
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Moonbirds, falls victim to phishing attack
Kevin Rose, who is also the co-founder of the nonfungible token (NFT) collection Moonbirds, has been a victim of a phishing scam, which has resulted in the loss of nonfungible tokens with a combined v...
Crypto Expert Kevin Rose Falls Victim to Phishing Scam, Faces Huge Loss
Kevin Rose announced that he was phished into signing a malicious signature that allowed the hacker to transfer a large number of high-value tokens. The co-creator of Brotchain explained the unforesee...
Eleventh Victim Dies After Monterey Park Shooting, Hospital Says
Topline The death toll from Saturday night’s mass shooting at a dance studio near Los Angeles rose to 11 Monday after another victim died, according to LAC+USC Medical Center, as nine others injured i...
FTX Collapse Claims Big Victim: Genesis Goes Bankrupt
Another renowned crypto firm is down. The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire continues to wreak havoc on the cryptocurrency industry. Crypto lender Genesis Global Holdco LLC filed for b...
Scammer sympathizes with victim, returns 75,000 XRP
In what some crypto fans describe as a “glimmer of hope”, a scammer returned all monies stolen from an XRP holder last week after the victim pleaded, asking for funds to be returned. The phishing camp...
NFT God Falls Victim To Google Ads-Delivered Malware
Crypto and NFT-influencer NFT God has lost all of his digital assets, described as a “life-changing amount,” after falling victim to a hack on the 14th of January. NFT God claims the assets were lost...
NFT influencer falls victim to cyberattack, loses $300K+ CryptoPunks
Nonfungible token (NFT) influencer CryptoNovo announced on Jan. 4 that he fell victim to a cyberattack and lost two CryptoPunks. He wrote on Twitter, “I just got hacked!!! Are you kidding me!?!” and i...
Magic Eden falls victim to exploit: Here’s why your NFTs are safe
Magic Eden stated that an exploit resulted in the sale of 25 fraudulent NFTs across four collections in the last 24 hours. The NFT marketplace has promised to refund all users who were duped into purc...
SDNY Launches FTX Task Force To Investigate and Recover Victim Funds
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District Of New York (SDNY) has announced the formation of an FTX task force to handle further investigations and prosecutions related to FTX. “The Southern...
Is UNI’s TVL a victim of miscalculation? The Uniswap founder stated that…
Uniswap founder clears confusion around TVL Activity on Uniswap declines along with the revenue being generated by the DEX In a recent tweet made by Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, it was stated...
Evan Luthra, a Victim of Crypto Exchange FTX, Shares His Story
The FTX disaster was something nobody saw coming, and now one investor – a young man named Evan Luthra – has described the debacle he’s endured after losing nearly $2 million in crypto funds following...
Crypto Winter’s Next Victim: Kraken to Exit Japan; again
Kraken, a US based cryptocurrency exchange, is planning to halt its operations in Japan and deregister from the country’s regulatory agency’s books as of January 31st, 2022. The crypto exchange noted...
BitGet becomes the latest victim to a DeFi exploit as BitKeep loses more than…
BitKeep lost more than $8 million to a DeFi exploit caused by malicious APK packages The BitKeep team assured compensation for users who have lost funds BitKeep, a non-custodial wallet owned by popula...
Chinese Tesla Rival Falls Victim to Bitcoin Ransomware Attack
Alex Dovbnya Chinese Tesla competitor Nio has disclosed major ransomware attack Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Nio recently revealed a major data breach that exposed certain confidential custom...
Will Litecoin [LTC] be a victim of market tittle-tattle as this investing guru says…
Analyst declared Litecoin could face market wipeout, along with two other cryptocurrencies LTC traders opted for unbias as investor sentiment remained negative Leader of the CNBC Investing Club, Jim C...
Lauren Duncan Nearly Fell Victim to a Crypto Scam
Romance scams are a growing trend in the digital currency arena, and one woman – Lauren Duncan – is sharing her story hoping that people can be saved from the same scenario that almost plagued her. La...
Solana’s hack story continues with Raydium Protocol as the new victim
Raydium Protocol, an AMM on Solana’s network, was hacked. The hacker gained owner authority and accessed massive amounts of funds through the protocol’s liquidity pools. Radiyum Protocol, an order boo...