2022-7-20 00:15 |
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said authorities relied on victims to report attacks "as soon as those crimes occur" to help recover funds. origin »
Bitcoin price in Telegram @btc_price_every_hour
|
Victims of the collapse of the Mt. Gox crypto exchange are closer to getting their funds back, according to the business's bankruptcy trustee. The post Mt. Gox Releases Repayment Plan, but Will Bulk Withdrawals Weaken Market Further? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-7-10 21:00 | |
|
|
Victims of the collapse of the Mt. Gox crypto exchange are closer to getting their funds back, according to the business's bankruptcy trustee. The post Mt Gox Releases Repayment Plan, but Will Bulk Withdrawals Weaken Market Further? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-7-9 21:00 | |
|
|
Thanks to partnership with Asset Reality, MetaMask will create a mechanism for recovering stolen assets
2022-5-27 17:38 | |
|
|
Sky Mavis is the company behind Axie Infinity, and after a recent heist that saw it lose over $600 million, the company is raising funds to reimburse users Sky Mavis: An embattled Company The last few days have been some of the worse for the Sky Mavis team; a heist was targeted at this company, […] The post Sky Mavis raises $150 million to reimburse theft victims appeared first on NFT News Today.
2022-4-10 07:13 | |
|
|
The round along with Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity funds will be used to refund users.
2022-4-7 13:54 | |
|
|
The confiscated funds will be used to provide restitution to BitConnect victims
2021-11-17 21:22 | |
|
|
Scams make up the largest share of funds sent from Eastern Europe to illicit addresses.
2021-9-2 06:22 | |
|
|
SaveTigray is selling digitised photos of the tragedy on its NFT marketplace and donating… The post Victims of famine in Ethiopia are raising funds with NFTs appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-7-15 12:54 | |
|
|
Leading digital asset exchange Gate.io unveiled a compensation program roughly worth $2 million to compensate all users who lost their funds during the recent hack on the PAID Network. Gate.io Compensates PAID Network Hack Victims In what comes as a respite for PAID Network token hodlers – at least for the ones who held theRead More
2021-4-27 12:19 | |
|
|
A South Korean court ordered one of the biggest domestic crypto exchanges to compensate victims of an “accidental withdrawal” incident in 2018. Bithumb has been ordered to pay customers who withdrew their bitcoin funds to an unknown wallet.
2021-2-14 07:30 | |
|
|
The US government says it has extradited Gutemberg Dos Santos, the co-founder of the Airbit Club Ponzi scheme from Panama and he now awaits his trial in a Manhattan court. Dos Santos is facing charges relating to his role in perpetuating a “cryptocurrency” scam which defrauded victims of “tens of millions of dollars.
2020-12-1 16:15 | |
|
|
Victims of the hacked New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia may soon recover their stolen funds with the liquidators planning to begin the claims registration process before the end of the year. Cryptopia was one of the cryptocurrency exchanges to suffer a security breach in 2019.
2020-9-19 17:51 | |
|
|
Cybersecurity researchers said "KyberCibule" covertly mines for privacy coin monero and could also steal victims' passwords and divert crypto funds.
2020-9-3 18:58 | |
|
|
Investors who put their funds in OneCoin in what later proved to be a Bitcoin scam have agreed to a settlement with scam co-mastermind Konstantin Ignatov
2020-8-8 18:46 | |
|
|
Since the release of its third report into the liquidation of the hacked Cryptopia Exchange in June, liquidators Grant Thorton are under fire from victims of the hack for paying itself over $1.7 million dollars in fees - which coupled with other expenses has used up more than half of the Cryptopia funds that have been secured since the exchange went into liquidation.
2020-8-2 08:00 | |
|
|
Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020.
2020-7-25 11:33 | |
|
|
Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020.
2020-7-24 11:33 | |
|
|
Leading bitcoin-powered casino, Bitcasino, is collaborating with The Giving Block charity platform to sponsor a virtual relief benefit concert aimed at raising funds for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-5-15 19:15 | |
|
|
Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, dForce was hacked last week but the startup promised to make users whole again. The platform announced that it has fully compensated the victims through the funds that the hacker returned.
2020-4-29 16:34 | |
|
|
IOTA has already identified ten victims of the attack on its Trinity wallet while it continues to investigate the case
2020-2-13 22:13 | |
|
|
Coinbase will fork over $962,500 after settling a class action lawsuit which alleged Cryptsy founder Paul Vernon used the U.S. exchange to launder his victims' funds.
2020-1-14 18:28 | |
|
|
Binance Charity, the blockchain-based charity arm of the world’s number one cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced that it has initiated the Australia Bushfire Donations project to help raise funds for the restoration of the region which has been devastated by wildfires.
2020-1-9 00:00 | |
|
|
NiceHash, a marketplace for renting mining hashpower, has announced that it is suspending its plans to repay customers who lost their funds during a December 2017 hack. That attack caused the company to lose over 4700 Bitcoin, worth $80 million at the time.
2019-12-19 13:50 | |
|
|
Many of the people working in the cryptocurrency industry had a negative banking experience. Some were prevented from accessing their funds while others lost their accounts. It’s no surprise that many people are working hard to disrupt the banking industry.
2019-11-17 13:00 | |
|
|
Pawel Kuskowski, CEO at London-based Coinfirm, a company focused on developing regulations technology, or Regtech, for blockchain-based financial assets, estimates that there’s $10 billion in stolen cryptocurrencies.
2019-11-1 13:51 | |
|
|
With over $4b in stolen cryptocurrency so far this year in hacks alone, the growing number of Hacks, Scams, Ransomware, Ponzi schemes and other nefarious actions call for the need of an effective system for victims to attempt to reclaim these funds.
2019-11-1 15:05 | |
|
|
A Russian law firm claims it can recover funds for victims of the 2014 Mt. Gox hack. But critics see some flaws in the outlined plan. The post Latest Pitch to Recover Lost Mt. Gox Bitcoin Has Critics Raising Red Flags appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-14 01:02 | |
|
|
QuadrigaCX shut down in January 2019, following the death of CEO Gerald Cotten. Court documents indicate that the creditors are potentially owed $190 million ($250 million CAD). QuadrigaCX entered liquidation not long ago, aiming to return funds that were owed to their customers.
2019-8-16 19:49 | |
|
|
QuadrigaCX creditors are losing patience with their court-appointed law firm, demanding answers about the effort to recover their funds.
2019-8-16 07:15 | |
|
|
Cryptocurrency scammers continued to swindle funds throughout Q2 2019, netting approximately $4. 26 billion so far this year. According to CipherTrace latest report, insider thefts were by far the largest offenders, netting massive loses on investors and cryptocurrency exchange users.
2019-8-13 12:22 | |
|
|
A judge in Canada has approved over $1. 6 million in fees for businesses seeking to recover funds lost as a result of QuadrigaCX’s demise. In a legal notice published yesterday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge Darlene Jamieson said: “There being no expressed opposition to the activities and accounts as presented by the monitor nor to the fees of its legal counsel, I approve the fees and activities of the monitor during the CCAA proceedings and the fees presented towards legal counsel.
2019-8-1 14:12 | |
|
|
Japanese crypto exchange operator Bitpoint pledged to compensate the victims of the recent hack. The company plans to refund about $30 million worth of cryptocurrency. About 50,000 Clients Affected by the Hack On Tuesday, Bitpoint published an update on its website, revealing the amounts of stolen crypto.
2019-7-16 17:00 | |
|
|
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint was hacked last week when hackers stole 3. 5 billion yen ($32 million) from the exchange’s hot wallet, of which 2. 5 billion yen were customer funds.
2019-7-16 15:48 | |
|
|
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) executed six arrests in connection with an investigation into an international $27 million heist that scammed victims into depositing funds at a fake crypto exchange.
2019-6-27 19:44 | |
|
|
By CCN: Coinroom, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Poland, has suddenly closed down its services in April as part of an exit scam that had left thousands of customers as victims. According to the Polish media outlet Money.
2019-6-7 12:39 | |
|
|
Security researchers have uncovered a knock-off cryptocurrency trading website designed to steal the funds of unwitting victims. Cybercriminals have created a website that imitates the Cryptohopper cryptocurrency trading platform to distribute malware that could steal personal information, hijack your clipboard, and crypto-jack your system, Bleeping Computer reports.
2019-6-6 16:16 | |
|
|
The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
|
|
Hackers who breached Microsoft Outlook have reportedly used the email service to steal cryptocurrency users' funds.
2019-4-30 18:10 | |
|
|
By CCN: The bitcoin bear market might be over, but it hasn’t finished claiming victims. Coinnest — South Korea’s fifth-largest crypto exchange — shut down this week. Users have until April 30 to withdraw any remaining funds.
2019-4-20 23:15 | |
|
|
The leader of the group representing victims of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is stepping down from his post. The founder and coordinator of Mt. Gox Legal, Andy Pag, is resigning in the midst of a “legal quagmire that could take years to resolve,” he told CoinDesk in an interview.
2019-4-9 14:35 | |
|
|
The UK$53,000) per day lost to scammers, enough to buy well specced BMW 3 Series. In some cases victims were hit by a double con. After being scammed for a first time, victims would be targeted by secondary scammers making false claims they could get back the victim’s lost funds for… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Bitcoin
2019-3-28 13:22 | |
|
|
The operator of New York-based company CabaggeTech has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than $200,000 in cash and cryptocurrency, according to a nine-count indictment unsealed in federal court in New York, on Tuesday.
2019-3-27 14:40 | |
|
|
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
|
|
Most cyberattacks in the crypto space involve hackers finding a way around the security of crypto exchange platforms and gaining access to users’ funds. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
|
|
Since NewsBTC’s last updates on the QuadrigaCX situation, little knowledge has been garnered about the current whereabouts or legitimacy of the exchange’s supposed Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and other digital asset holdings.
2019-2-17 03:00 | |
|
|
An international cryptocurrency fraud cartel has been busted by a joint investigation between US and foreign authorities. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it has charged 20 people, including 16 foreigners for being part of an international organized crime syndicate that saw American citizens defrauded for millions of dollars.
2019-2-11 17:00 | |
|
|
Actor and cryptocurrency advocate Brock Pierce explained the goals and challenges facing ‘Gox Rising’, an initiative to return Mt. Gox victims their stolen investments in an interview with TechCrunch, February 7, 2019.
2019-2-9 18:00 | |
|
|
CoinSpeaker Lawyers May Sell Canada’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchange QuadrigaCX to Compensate Crypto Victims After the death of QuadrigaCX CEO, $150 million of users’ funds became inaccessible.
2019-2-6 13:21 | |
|
|
Even though Bitcoin has been around for over 10 years now, cryptocurrency scams are still claiming many victims. It is somewhat uncanny how easy it can be to trick people into giving up their credentials or funds in exchange for services they might not even need.
2019-1-8 06:07 | |
|
|
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, could be released on Friday, two days ahead of his scheduled release date of September 29th (Sunday), according to an interpretation of the law.
A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators is questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland about the "unprecedented interpretation" of law the Department of Justice (DOJ) is using to pursue cryptocurrency software services as unlicensed money-transmitting businesses.
Binance's founder and former chief executive, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has apologised for his "poor decisions" and accepted "full responsibility" for his actions, in a letter to the judge overseeing his case.
According to the latest report, Binance Holdings Ltd. will pay one of the largest corporate penalties in United States history after a judge approved the company’s plea agreement. This comes months after the cryptocurrency exchange and its former CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering infringements, bringing a close to a long-term […]
U.S. argues that Binance's former CEO should remain free until sentencing – but only in the U.S.
U.S. argues that Binance's former CEO should remain free until sentencing – but only in the U.S.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, CZ could receive a 12-18 month sentence, but the Department of Justice is willing to fight for a longer term.