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Bitget Suspends Withdrawals, Says $351.6 Million Affected In Hot Wallet Breach
Bitget said approximately $351.6 million in assets were affected by unauthorized transfers from a limited number of its hot wallets on Sept. 24 and that it had temporarily suspended withdrawals, confirming an incident that onchain observers had tracked through the afternoon. “At 18:31 UTC on......
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Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets
A newly created wallet drained hot and cold reserves labeled as belonging to Bitget across multiple blockchains in under an hour.
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Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 12 Years for $16M Coinbase Phishing Scam
Bitcoin Magazine Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 12 Years for $16M Coinbase Phishing Scam A scammer who went by the online name “lolimfeelingevil” will face 12 years in prison after pleading guilty for playing his part in stealing $16 million in crypto from Coinbase users. Ronald Spektor, 23, from...
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Mighty Mike and the scam-coded future
A bizarre drama played out on YouTube this past week, when a channel called Mighty Mike Plays posted a video explaining how nine-year-old “Mighty Mike” apparently got a hold of his father Dave's company card and spent $118,000 on a YouTube ad campaign. However, the story immediately appeared to...
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In Her Final Weeks, SEC's Peirce Calls for Ending the KYC 'Panopticon'
In one of her final speeches as commissioner, Peirce argued that regulators' "data haystacks" endanger the people they aim to protect—as recent KYC leaks expose crypto holders to phishing and physical attacks.
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Revolut reveals customer data breached twice this month
UK bank Revolut has revealed that its customers data was breached twice this month after the firm’s former third-party US broker, DriveWealth, suffered a social engineering attack. The breach, revealed today by both Revolut and DriveWealth, happened on September 4 and September 5, and reportedly...
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Payy Halts Network After $1.92 Million USDC Drain
Payy, a privacy-focused stablecoin payments network, halted transactions on Sept. 24 after an exploit of its Ethereum bridge. Onchain records show two withdrawal batches sent about 1.92 million USDC to the same attacker-linked address. The company confirmed the attack and said “all Payy Network......
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Crypto casino Duelbits goes offline after $7 million hot wallet hack
Attackers drained Duelbits' hot wallets across four blockchains; about $6 million in stolen funds now sits in a single Ethereum address.
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SEC’s Peirce Urges Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Reduce KYC Data Collection
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce urged federal regulators to move away from data-heavy know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering requirements toward cryptographic checks that can verify compliance without exposing personal details. In a Sept. 23 speech at SIFMA’s Digital Assets Conference in...
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£10K Reward Offered After UK Couple Attacked in Crypto Home Invasion
Police believe the robbery was planned and targeted, with instructions relayed to the three attackers by a fourth man on a video call.
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Thousands of Curaçao crypto casinos see data leaked following hack
A team of journalists has leaked the data of thousands of Curaçao-registered casino operators after the island nation's gambling regulator revealed it was hacked last week. The database of over 40,000 documents includes financial plans, audits, business structures, and funding sources, from over...
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Brooklyn man sent to prison for 12 years for stealing $16M in a Coinbase phishing scheme
The fraudster managed to scam about 100 people across the United States, convincing them of transferring funds to him, claiming their accounts had been hacked.
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Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years
He posed as support staff, emptied about 100 accounts, then lost $6 million of the proceeds gambling, according to his own messages.
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Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government site before Altman warning
OpenAI notified Australia nearly three months after its agent breached a government portal while gathering public medicine-spending data.
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Brooklyn man gets up to 12 years over $16 million Coinbase social engineering scheme
A court sentenced 23-year-old Ronald Spektor to four to 12 years in prison for a $15.9 million Coinbase phishing scheme.
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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."
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OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.
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Former Hack VC partner Hsin-Ju Chuang found dead at 37
The crypto executive and Dystopia Labs founder previously held senior roles at Stellar and Solana before joining venture capital firm Hack VC.
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Cosmos Hub Restarts; 1.23 Million ATOM Moved From Neutron Attacker Wallet
The Cosmos Hub resumed producing blocks at 8:06 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and the restart moved 1.23 million ATOM out of the wallet of the attacker who took control of 11 Neutron contracts through a governance vote. Validators coordinated the halt and the restart among themselves. The transfer is......
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Former Hack VC partner Hsin-Ju Chuang found dead following public dispute with the firm
The crypto community is seeking answers after 37-year-old growth executive Hsin-Ju Chuang was found dead in a remote California desert vehicle.
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Hack VC deletes X post after disgruntled former employee found dead
Crypto venture capitalists at Hack VC deleted a post about disagreeing with a disgruntled former employee, Hsin-Ju Chuang, who has tragically passed away. Its official X account currently has no mention of her passing. Its deleted post read , “While our understanding of events differs materially,...
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Cosmos hub halts for 24 hours after Neutron governance attack
Cosmos Hub validators halted block production on Tuesday, following a governance attack on Neutron which initially led to losses of $9.5 million. Of that sum, the attacker was only able to extract around 20%, with the remainder stuck on halted networks. With block production having resumed since...
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Crypto hacking group ShinyHunters says it stole data of 5,000 FBI agents
Crypto hacking collective ShinyHunters claims to have stolen the personal details of 5,000 FBI agents after gaining access to its database. It shared a sample of the stolen data with a number of outlets yesterday. The data includes family members, social security numbers, and details of...
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North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets
A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau.
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FATF Report | How to Understand and Address Risks in Gaming and Gambling
In September 2026, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published the report Risks of Gaming and Gambling , providing a systematic analysis of money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing risks in areas including casinos, sports betting, other forms of gambling, and online...
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Malicious iOS app FomoPeek linked to $580K crypto theft, SlowMist says
SlowMist said malicious FomoPeek versions distributed through Apple’s App Store used iOS kernel exploits to escape the sandbox and access sensitive data from other apps.
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White-Hat Hackers Route Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into 'Recovery Trust'
Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a "Crypto Recovery Trust," though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul.
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White Hats Move Over $4.5 in Bitcoins From Coldcard to Recovery Trust
Bitcoin Magazine White Hats Move Over $4.5 in Bitcoins From Coldcard to Recovery Trust White hats have moved bitcoin from the hacked Coldcard signing devices to a trust for would-be victims to reclaim, Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn has said. Writing on X on Monday, Thorn said that the funds were...
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Crypto-draining FOMO app was available on Apple store for a week
Analysts have urged iPhone users to update their IOS after crypto-stealing malware was discovered in malicious Safari browser links and the FOMO app. SlowMist's Chief Information Security Officer, Shān Zhang, encouraged his followers last Saturday to update to the latest version of IOS following...
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White hats outrun Coldcard hackers in 52-Bitcoin evacuation
White hats secured about 40% of the Bitcoin moved in the Coldcard exploit’s second wave, transferring it to a Wyoming trust for victims.