Stolen Wallets

JioTag Air was launched in India as the successor to JioTag on Tuesday. One of the key new features of the device is its compatibility with Apple’s Find My Feature which enables iPhone users to locate lost or stolen items such as keys, luggage, wallets, and even pets – items that are prone to get misplaced.

CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...

A Meerut businessman raised both his hands and chanted the Jai Shri Ram slogan as a BJP roadshow featuring Ramayan stars crossed his shop. The downside: he lost Rs 36,000 as someone from the crowd picked his pocket.

A 28-year-old chartered accountant lost Rs 6.72 lakh after his credit and debit cards were stolen when he left his belongings unattended to play cricket at Cross Maidan in south Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

The X account of MicroStrategy was hacked in the early hours of Monday, February 26. The account was flooded with posts showing links where people could click and register for the airdrop of Ethereum-based ‘so-called official’ MSTR token.

The couple revealed that they have placed Apple AirTags in both of their cars, phones, wallets as well as luggage.

NFTs worth nearly $30,000 (roughly Rs. 24 lakh) were drained out of the wallet of a Web3 influencer on January 15. Along with the costliest Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) NFT, a bunch of other NFTs amounting to ETH 19 (roughly Rs. 24 lakh) were reportedly stolen in this attack. An ad on Google Search that replicated an original search from the victim...

Hollywood actor and comedian Bill Murray has lost $185,000 (roughly Rs. 1.5 crore) in a hack attack. This fund was collected for a charity donation and its stealer has not been identified as yet. A police complaint has been filed in the case and probe is on.

The creators of SudoRare NFT marketplace shut their operations after only six hours of launching the platform. Around $850,000 (roughly Rs. 68 lakh) were reeled-in before the Twitter handle of SudoRare also went defunct.

The crypto investor discovered in May that the funds were missing from his digital wallet and moved court to find out who the thief was.

Losses arising from cryptocurrency hacks jumped nearly 60 percent in the first seven months of the year to $1.9 billion (roughly Rs. 15,070 crore), propelled by a surge in funds stolen from decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, according to a blog post from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Tuesday. The firm noted that the trend is...

The Premint NFT registration platform will be paying back its defrauded users a total of over $525,000 (roughly Rs. 4.20 crore) in 340 Ether coins. The platform will be depositing ETH coins equivalent to the collection floor price of every stolen NFT, into the 28 crypto wallets that were drained in the hack.

The hacker responsible for stealing $100 million from Horizon, a cross-chain bridge tied to the Harmony blockchain protocol, has begun laundering the funds using Tornado Cash.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Discord server was hacked on Saturday, with the attacker making off with 200 ETH (worth Rs. 2,8 crore) worth of NFTs. The hack took place after the project’s community manager, Boris Vagner, had his Discord account compromised, which the attacker then used to post phishing links across channels.

The Instagram handle and Discord server of the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFTs was hacked on April 15. The hacker posted a fraudulent link to a copycat of the Bored Ape Yacht Club website and asked users to connect their MetaMask to the scammer's wallet to participate in a fake airdrop. An investigation has been opened in the case. Over $13 million (rou...

JioTag Air was launched in India as the successor to JioTag on Tuesday. One of the key new features of the device is its compatibility with Apple’s Find My Feature which enables iPhone users to locate lost or stolen items such as keys, luggage, wallets, and even pets – items that are prone to get misplaced.

CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...

A Meerut businessman raised both his hands and chanted the Jai Shri Ram slogan as a BJP roadshow featuring Ramayan stars crossed his shop. The downside: he lost Rs 36,000 as someone from the crowd picked his pocket.

A 28-year-old chartered accountant lost Rs 6.72 lakh after his credit and debit cards were stolen when he left his belongings unattended to play cricket at Cross Maidan in south Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

The X account of MicroStrategy was hacked in the early hours of Monday, February 26. The account was flooded with posts showing links where people could click and register for the airdrop of Ethereum-based ‘so-called official’ MSTR token.

The couple revealed that they have placed Apple AirTags in both of their cars, phones, wallets as well as luggage.

NFTs worth nearly $30,000 (roughly Rs. 24 lakh) were drained out of the wallet of a Web3 influencer on January 15. Along with the costliest Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) NFT, a bunch of other NFTs amounting to ETH 19 (roughly Rs. 24 lakh) were reportedly stolen in this attack. An ad on Google Search that replicated an original search from the victim...

Hollywood actor and comedian Bill Murray has lost $185,000 (roughly Rs. 1.5 crore) in a hack attack. This fund was collected for a charity donation and its stealer has not been identified as yet. A police complaint has been filed in the case and probe is on.

The creators of SudoRare NFT marketplace shut their operations after only six hours of launching the platform. Around $850,000 (roughly Rs. 68 lakh) were reeled-in before the Twitter handle of SudoRare also went defunct.

The crypto investor discovered in May that the funds were missing from his digital wallet and moved court to find out who the thief was.

Losses arising from cryptocurrency hacks jumped nearly 60 percent in the first seven months of the year to $1.9 billion (roughly Rs. 15,070 crore), propelled by a surge in funds stolen from decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, according to a blog post from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Tuesday. The firm noted that the trend is...

The Premint NFT registration platform will be paying back its defrauded users a total of over $525,000 (roughly Rs. 4.20 crore) in 340 Ether coins. The platform will be depositing ETH coins equivalent to the collection floor price of every stolen NFT, into the 28 crypto wallets that were drained in the hack.

The hacker responsible for stealing $100 million from Horizon, a cross-chain bridge tied to the Harmony blockchain protocol, has begun laundering the funds using Tornado Cash.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Discord server was hacked on Saturday, with the attacker making off with 200 ETH (worth Rs. 2,8 crore) worth of NFTs. The hack took place after the project’s community manager, Boris Vagner, had his Discord account compromised, which the attacker then used to post phishing links across channels.

The Instagram handle and Discord server of the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFTs was hacked on April 15. The hacker posted a fraudulent link to a copycat of the Bored Ape Yacht Club website and asked users to connect their MetaMask to the scammer's wallet to participate in a fake airdrop. An investigation has been opened in the case. Over $13 million (rou...