Cops Struggle to Keep Up With ‘Staggering’ Levels of Crypto Seizures April 13, 2022 By Ellen Milligan and David Voreacos One spring day in a village just west of London, residents saw a man being muscled into a car in...
Cryptocurrency Crime Hit Record $14 Billion in 2021: Research January 6, 2022 By Tom Wilson Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record...
Hackers Steal More Than $94M from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange August 19, 2021 By Tom Wilson Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said on Thursday it was hit by hackers in a theft estimated at more than $94...
Cryptocurrency Crime Drops in 2020 but ‘Decentralized Finance’ Losses Rise: Study January 29, 2021 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell 57% last year to $1.9 billion, as market participants boosted security systems,...
Timeline: More Than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency Thefts Since September 2012 June 22, 2018 By Andrea Tan and Yuji Nakamura Investors’ shaky confidence in virtual currencies took another hit after crypto exchange Bithumb, ranked seventh in the world by traded...
Hackers Steal $32M from S. Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Bithumb June 20, 2018 By Cynthia Kim and Joyce Lee South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb said 35 billion won ($31.5 million) worth of virtual coins were stolen by hackers, the...
Bitcoins Worth $3M Stolen from India’s Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Coinsecure April 13, 2018 By Anto Antony and Archana Chaudhary One of India’s biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms has lost about 438 Bitcoins worth some 190 million rupees ($3 million), allegedly...
Coincheck Will Start Compensating 260,000 Victims of $500M Cryptocurrency Heist March 9, 2018 By Hideki Sagiike and Yuji Nakamura Coincheck Inc. said it will start compensating users who had their cryptocurrency stolen beginning as soon as next week, as...
More Hackers Target Red-Hot Cryptocurrency Space: Report February 2, 2018 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Bitcoin’s popularity and the emergence of about 1,500 other digital coins or tokens have drawn more hackers into the red-hot...
Timeline: Growing List of Major Cryptocurrency Heists February 1, 2018 By Andrea Tan and Yuji Nakamura The $500 million heist of digital tokens from Japanese exchange Coincheck Inc. on Friday is remarkable for its sheer size,...