Hacks


Markets

Robinhood Traders, Including Bitcoin Holders, Left in the Lurch Following Theft: Report

The popular personal investing platform did not do enough to help targeted customers, victims claim.

Robinhood

Markets

KuCoin Restarts Deposits, Withdrawals for Bitcoin, Ether Following $281M Hack

The Seychelles-based exchange is bringing more services back online after suffering a major hack late last month.

KuCoin (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Unsuccessful Telecom Hack Targeted Israeli Crypto CEOs

Mossad and Shin Bet are have been made aware of an early September hack that hit 20 cryptocurrency executives.

A cell tower in Or Yehuda.

Finance

Cryptopia Users Can Claim Assets From End of 2020, Says Hacked Exchange's Liquidator

Grant Thornton said the process of repatriating $100 million worth of crypto assets from the now-defunct Cryptopia exchange will begin later this year.

Cryptopia

Policy

Japanese Crypto Exchange Accuses Binance of Helping Launder $9M From 2018 Hack

Fisco, formerly Zaif, is suing Binance for "aiding and abetting" the laundering of some of the $60 million stolen in 2018.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Markets

DeFi Lender bZx Reclaims $8M Stolen in Sunday's Attack

DeFi lending project bZx has been able to recover about $8 million in cryptocurrency from an attacker who stole the funds after exploiting a code bug over the weekend.

The hacker was exposed sometime on Monday.

Markets

DeFi Lender bZx Loses $8M in Third Attack This Year

An attacker found a way to mint unbacked iTokens that they could then redeem against other cryptos held in lending pools for DeFi lender bZx.

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Policy

European Crypto Exchange Falls Victim to $1.6M Hack

Slovakia's Eterbase said early on Tuesday that hackers had managed to steal a total of $1.6 million in various cryptocurrencies.

Bratislava, Slovakia's capital (Pudelek/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Someone Just Lost $16M in Bitcoin by Using a Malicious Install of the Electrum Wallet

An Electrum wallet user claims to have lost a fortune in bitcoin after installing an older version of the software from a malicious source.

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Markets

US Files Suit Against Crypto Accounts Tied to North Korea

Prosecutors say the 280 accounts hold crypto stolen from two exchange hacks last year.

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