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Man pleads guilty to hacking Elon Musk's and Joe Biden's Twitter accounts in bitcoin scam
Joseph James O'Connor was part of a group that hijacked several high-profile Twitter accounts in 20…
Pete Syme
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Twitter staff can tweet from any account in 'GodMode' because loopholes weren't closed after Bitcoin scam hack, former engineer reportedly says
It follows a 2020 incident when hackers got access to Twitter's internal systems and made $120,000 …
Pete Syme
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The US wants to extradite a British man accused of stealing $8.5 million of crypto from an American citizen
The Brit facing extradition is accused of aiding a hacking group called "The Community" when he was…
Carla Mozée
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An entrepreneur told police he was tortured for several hours by masked criminals attempting to steal his bitcoin millions
Zaryn Dentzel reportedly told police that an organized gang tied and gagged him before escaping wit…
Zahra Tayeb
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Bitcoin scammers used Apple's iPhone 13 reveal to steal $69,000 from fans
Bitcoin scammers used Apple's iPhone 13 reveal to steal $69,000 from fans
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Finland is looking to hire a broker to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug bust
The bitcoins, worth around $79 million at time of publication, are currently with Finnish Customs a…
Isabelle Lee
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The Justice Department sentenced a Swedish man to 15 years in prison for a $16 million crypto-fraud scheme
Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson's fraud targeted financially insecure investors, the DOJ said, causing ma…
Isabelle Lee
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The most successful blockchain scams have ripped off nearly $14 million from victims to date, VPN company says
"Due to their nature, blockchain projects remain profitable targets to cybercriminals," says Atlas …
Carla Mozée
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Crypto scams are preying on vulnerable people. Many victims are deceived online, including an elderly woman who lost thousands.
An Indiana-based woman was only able to recover a fraction of the money she lost to a man who convi…
Zahra Tayeb
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Lawyers for the South African brothers who vanished with $3.6 billion of bitcoin in possibly the largest-ever crypto heist have been terminated from the case
The South-Africa based lawyers told Bloomberg their mandate to assist the brothers has been termina…
Emily Graffeo
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South African regulator says it's powerless over suspected $3.6 billion bitcoin scam, as crypto is out of its reach
South Africa's financial services watchdog said Africrypt, the company linked to the missing bitcoi…
Harry Robertson
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Two South African brothers have vanished with $3.6 billion of bitcoin in what could be the biggest crypto heist in history
The siblings founded Africrypt in 2019. Soon after, the brothers, along with 69,000 bitcoins worth …
Isabelle Lee
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US investors reported over $50 million in losses from crypto scams to the Federal Trade Commission in the first quarter
US investors reported a roughly 80% increase in crypto scam losses since the fourth quarter of 2020…
Will Daniel
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The CFTC just charged a bitcoin firm with operating the 'largest ever fraud' involving the cryptocurrency
Mirror Trading International offered investors returns as high as 10% a month through a trading "bo…
Jennifer Sor
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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak lost his legal battle against YouTube over videos that used his image to promote bitcoin scams
YouTube scammers used images and a video of Wozniak to convince viewers the Apple cofounder was hos…
Shalini Nagarajan
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A Hong Kong fashion executive thought she was adopting a kitten from Thailand. She ended up losing $764,000 in a Bitcoin scam.
The 58-year-old woman was conned into paying more than $764,000 to a scammer via 40 separate crypto…
Matthew Loh
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Police seize $2.7 million of crypto from a British teenager in a credit card fraud scheme
Lincolnshire Police seized more than 48 bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from a boy engaging in o…
Carla Mozée
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Carry Minati’s YouTube channel hacked as part of bitcoin scam reflects why Steve Wozniak is suing the platform
Less than two weeks after Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and other verified Twitter accounts wer…