Stolen Bitcoin

MicroStrategy executive chairman and prominent Bitcoin bull, Michael Saylor, likened the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried to the notorious Jordan Belfort, also known as "The Wolf of Wall Street."

Bitcoin ATMs manufactured by General Bytes were recently breached by hackers who managed to get away with an undisclosed amount of funds. As per the company, the attack was identified three days after it publicly announced a ‘Help Ukraine’ feature on its ATMs. An investigation has been launched into the case and meanwhile, the company has asked...

A hacker who has claimed to have stolen the data of a billion Chinese citizens has begun selling the data online. The alleged 23TB database was advertised on a forum late last month and picked up by cybersecurity experts this week. A sample of 7,50,000 entries shows citizens' names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays an...

The Netherlands' Maastricht University fell victim to a massive ransomware attack in 2019, and has now partly received back its stolen money... which in the meantime more than doubled in value, a news report said on Saturday.

The nosedive in cryptocurrency markets has wiped out millions of dollars in funds stolen by North Korean hackers, four digital investigators say, threatening a key source of funding for the sanctions-stricken country and its weapons programmes.

Horizon Bridge, a cross-chain interoperability platform between Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Harmony blockchain networks, has been hacked for $100 million (roughly Rs. 784 crore). The Harmony team has stated that it has been made aware of the theft and has begun working with national authorities as well as forensic specialists to identif...

US officials announced on Tuesday they had recovered $3.6 billion of bitcoin stolen in a 2016, throwing a light on the scams that surround cryptocurrency.

They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age — made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers’ eyes.

Five years after crypto exchange Bitfinex was drained dry by a hacker, two people suspected of laundering the stolen funds have come under the FBI scanner. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein, an NYC-based couple are looking at up to 25 years in jail if found guilty.

The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record seizure.

The Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell have said that a Delhi-based businessman’s cryptocurrencies were allegedly stolen and transferred to the wallets of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian organisation Hamas.

The hackers also target a diverse variety of cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin, the world's largest digital currency, accounting for only a quarter of stolen assets.

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday it has taken action to return more than $154 million allegedly stolen from a Sony subsidiary by one of its Japanese employees who converted it into bitcoin.

It is extremely difficult to hack bitcoin; there are chances of the coins being stolen from the wallet, but the entire bitcoin network cannot be hacked

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of $613 million (roughly Rs. 4,550 crores) in digital coins they stole, Poly Network said.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and prominent Bitcoin bull, Michael Saylor, likened the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried to the notorious Jordan Belfort, also known as "The Wolf of Wall Street."

Bitcoin ATMs manufactured by General Bytes were recently breached by hackers who managed to get away with an undisclosed amount of funds. As per the company, the attack was identified three days after it publicly announced a ‘Help Ukraine’ feature on its ATMs. An investigation has been launched into the case and meanwhile, the company has asked...

A hacker who has claimed to have stolen the data of a billion Chinese citizens has begun selling the data online. The alleged 23TB database was advertised on a forum late last month and picked up by cybersecurity experts this week. A sample of 7,50,000 entries shows citizens' names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays an...

The Netherlands' Maastricht University fell victim to a massive ransomware attack in 2019, and has now partly received back its stolen money... which in the meantime more than doubled in value, a news report said on Saturday.

The nosedive in cryptocurrency markets has wiped out millions of dollars in funds stolen by North Korean hackers, four digital investigators say, threatening a key source of funding for the sanctions-stricken country and its weapons programmes.

Horizon Bridge, a cross-chain interoperability platform between Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Harmony blockchain networks, has been hacked for $100 million (roughly Rs. 784 crore). The Harmony team has stated that it has been made aware of the theft and has begun working with national authorities as well as forensic specialists to identif...

US officials announced on Tuesday they had recovered $3.6 billion of bitcoin stolen in a 2016, throwing a light on the scams that surround cryptocurrency.

They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age — made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers’ eyes.

Five years after crypto exchange Bitfinex was drained dry by a hacker, two people suspected of laundering the stolen funds have come under the FBI scanner. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein, an NYC-based couple are looking at up to 25 years in jail if found guilty.

The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record seizure.

The Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell have said that a Delhi-based businessman’s cryptocurrencies were allegedly stolen and transferred to the wallets of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian organisation Hamas.

The hackers also target a diverse variety of cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin, the world's largest digital currency, accounting for only a quarter of stolen assets.

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday it has taken action to return more than $154 million allegedly stolen from a Sony subsidiary by one of its Japanese employees who converted it into bitcoin.

It is extremely difficult to hack bitcoin; there are chances of the coins being stolen from the wallet, but the entire bitcoin network cannot be hacked

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of $613 million (roughly Rs. 4,550 crores) in digital coins they stole, Poly Network said.