Crypto Theft News

Gala Games’ token, GALA, was a top gainer on Wednesday after funds from a recent security incident have been recovered and proposed to burn for the token’s stability. The GALA price surge comes after it released a report about the…

The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested two brothers concerning the theft of $25 million in cryptocurrency.

Despite a near-constant number of hacks, the total amount of crypto stolen has been slashed by over half in 2023, TRM Labs reports. According to a report published by blockchain firm TRM Labs, hackers managed to pilfer $1.7 billion through…

The stablecoin company said irreversible crypto transactions have left millions with heavy losses and necessitated a new type of digital asset with greater flexibility.

The LastPass hack claimed 25 victims on October 25th, draining $4.4 million from several crypto wallets.

Although Calgary citizens reported 340 cryptocurrency scam cases this year, police believe scams are ‘vastly underreported.’ Citizens of Calgary, Canada, have been targeted by at least 340 cases of scam in 2023, losing a total sum of more than $22.5…

Representatives of the Everscale project reported the theft of large volumes of EVER tokens.

A Chinese court has jailed a man for ten years for stealing 384 ETH. The hacker siphoned crypto from the victim's wallet in 2 months in 2018.

Stanford has launched two Ethereum project solutions to counter theft and money laundering in the crypto space.  The Announcement In a tweet, Kaili.eth, a member of Stanford, announced that the institution came up with the idea of reversible transactions in…

A North Texas woman has been charged with stealing $570,000 in Bitcoin after allegedly stealing passwords to access the cryptocurrency from a Dallas home. Texas Woman Arrested for Stealing $570K Worth in Bitcoin On September 6, Joann Vasquez, a 38-year-old…

While crypto heists have declined in 2020, the largely unregulated decentralized finance (DeFi) arena has seen an uptick in the activities of rogue actors. Crypto Crime on the Decline in 2020 According to cryptocurrency forensics firm CipherTrace, losses due to…

Two suspects allegedly responsible for the theft of Bitcoin (BTC) worth $700,000 from a company’s account have been arrested by the Tokyo Police Department. Reports are claiming that one of the suspects intended to bankrupt the company as he had…

A new diktat by Hong Kong’s financial watchdog has put the global financial hub’s cryptocurrency exchanges and custodians in a spot of bother as they are now required to fully insure the risks of hacking and theft associated with digital…

A group of six hackers by the name “The Community” are to be sentenced to more than 20 years each in prison for stealing more than $2.4 million worth of cryptocurrencies using multiple SIM swap attacks, Independent IE reported May…

It would seem that there are a number of unresolved issues with Trezor’s wallets as Ledger has revealed in a post dated March 11, 2019, which outlines five major vulnerabilities in their competitor’s product. Dangerous Revelations In December 2018, a…

The Google Play store pulled out app that runs on the Android OS after it was discovered to be clandestinely stealing bitcoin from unsuspecting users, Forbes reported on February 11, 2019. Removal Job The number of scams involving cryptocurrencies doesn’t…