Crypto crime, investigated: who got hacked, who ran, who got caught. Real cases, no hype. Where On-Chain Drama Lives. By @usmansaifcheema
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About 6,000 bitcoin, its keys lost in a fishing rod case, is moving again. On 20 October a wallet untouched since 2016 sent 500 bitcoin (about $41.5M, trackers say) to Coinbase Prime. Irish authorities have said nothing about that move. cryptomediazone.com/the-rap-…
A trader sent a 50 USDT test payment, then copied the wrong address from their own history and sent $49,999,950 to a look-alike that matched the first and last characters. Nothing was hacked. None of it has been recovered. cryptomediazone.com/scam-enc…
Hackers took about $970 from MetaMask's staking business. MetaMask's answer was to switch off about 17,000 Ethereum validators holding roughly $1.4B of ether, by one researcher's count. No customer funds were taken. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
A fired Ethereum Foundation team lead is suing it and Vitalik Buterin in Colorado, saying she lost her job for leading staff pushback on a clause in a staff document. Her claims are untested. The foundation has not yet responded. cryptomediazone.com/court-wa…
Keplr, a Cosmos crypto wallet, paused Google and Apple sign-in after users reported transfers they never approved. Login provider Web3Auth paused too. No loss or cause is confirmed. Keplr says recovery phrase and hardware wallets are not affected. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
Data firm Bitquery counted at least $4.06M drained from 365 TRON wallets. Some security firms blame an iPhone hacking kit called DarkSword, and Trust Wallet urged users to update. The link is unproven; Apple and TRON are not accused. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
California's regulator says crypto ATM firm CoinFlip must repay $4.81M to 20 scam victims and pay $351,530 in excess fees. It is a consent order; CoinFlip admitted nothing. The $4.81M covers those 20 people, not all losses. cryptomediazone.com/scam-enc…
A former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering over $2.47M in crypto, taken with passwords from 35 FBI investigations, the Justice Department says. Patrick Yaroch is not yet sentenced; that is set for 4 March 2027. cryptomediazone.com/the-rap-…
US Treasury unit FinCEN says $16.7B in illicit flows crossed crypto exchange MEXC and bars US firms from dealing with it. That is FinCEN's finding about flows, not money MEXC kept. No court has ruled. MEXC says it is reviewing the order. cryptomediazone.com/court-wa…
A Polkadot bug was reported in June and a fix was written, but it missed the release and never went live. In October the Polkadot Treasury, the community-owned fund, lost about $1.38M, per Parity's post-mortem. Parity says no users lost money. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
SignalPlus, a crypto options trading tool, says a fake Microsoft Teams invite let an attacker into its network, and that users lost no more than $82,000. Binance and Deribit cut its keys; both say their own systems were not affected. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
Thailand's securities regulator has filed a police complaint against crypto exchange Bitget and will have it blocked in Thailand from 5 December. The complaint is about a missing licence, not theft or fraud. No one has been charged. cryptomediazone.com/court-wa…
Chainalysis, whose software helps police and exchanges trace stolen crypto, now says names, password hashes and live login tokens for all its users were exposed to an attacker. No crypto theft has been reported, and it has not said any customer lost money. cryptomediazone.com/hack-dat…
Scam victims rarely see this. A court in India has ordered frozen crypto sent back to a woman who lost about $1.5M to fake investment sites.
Gate, where the accounts were held, is not accused of anything. No report says she has been paid yet.
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Two Canadians are charged with hacking US universities and using their supercomputers to mine crypto, prosecutors allege. One was extradited on 28 October.
Both are presumed innocent.
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Seven arrested, 17 places searched, more than 100 servers seized. Europol and @Eurojust say a network used fake trading sites that showed victims profits that did not exist.
The suspects are presumed innocent.
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A Canadian judge has ordered a convicted killer's bitcoin laptop returned, ruling the Crown never tied the coins to the crime.
William Sandeson's victim, Taylor Samson, 22, has never been found. What this means for the family's own claim is unclear.
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12 years for Jorge Figueira. More than $1 billion moved through a wallet and accounts tied to his network, prosecutors said, and couriers proved who they were with banknote serial numbers.
Tether is not accused of anything.
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Brazil's biggest crypto exchange, @MercadoBitcoin, froze withdrawals on 2 November. Trackers counted about $46M leaving; the exchange puts it at about $38M and says customers will lose nothing.
Withdrawals are still closed.
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A French bank says attackers used its own account to send money to other banks. @zachxbt estimates over $133M then left through crypto.
@cmarkea has not confirmed that figure or the crypto route. Paris prosecutors are investigating.
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