Crimes | ForkLog - Part 100

ForkLog 6 20.05.2021

Crypto ‘investment consultant’ duped couple out of more than 4 million rubles

Sakhalin law enforcement authorities have opened a criminal case into large-scale fraud following a local resident's loss of over 4 million rubles.

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ForkLog 9 19.05.2021

Syktyvkar miner stole electricity worth 5.5 million rubles

Officials in the Komi Republic accused a local resident of stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 15 19.05.2021

Study finds DarkSide victims paid about $90 million in Bitcoin

Elliptic analysts analysed 47 Bitcoin wallets believed to belong to the DarkSide hacking group. According to the study, over nine months the attackers received about $90 million in Bitcoin from victims.

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ForkLog 13 18.05.2021

Lithuanian fintech startup suspected of siphoning €100 million from Wirecard

The Munich public prosecutor's office is investigating a possible link between the Lithuanian fintech Finolita and the theft of more than €100 million from the Wirecard payment service in the weeks before its collapse.

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ForkLog 8 18.05.2021

US residents lost more than $80 million to Bitcoin scammers in six months

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recorded a tenfold increase in cryptocurrency investment scams.

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ForkLog 7 18.05.2021

Iranian police arrest buyer of Jack Dorsey’s NFT tweet

Iranian authorities have arrested Bridge Oracle founder Sina Estavi.

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ForkLog 24 17.05.2021

Elliptic: Bitcoin wallet used by DarkSide hackers has received $17.5m since March

Elliptic specialists say they were able to identify the bitcoin wallet used by the DarkSide hackers to receive ransom from victims.

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ForkLog 27 17.05.2021

DeFi protocol bEarn Fi loses $11 million in a hack

An attacker targeted the cross-chain yield-farming protocol bEarn Fi operating on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and withdrew assets worth about $11 million from its pools.

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ForkLog 9 17.05.2021

Scammers dupe Russian woman out of 3 million rubles in a cryptocurrency investment scheme

A woman from Primorsky Krai became a victim of scammers while attempting to purchase cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 23 14.05.2021

Media: Colonial Pipeline paid hackers a $5 million ransom in cryptocurrency

The company Colonial Pipeline, attacked by hackers, paid a ransom of about $5 million in cryptocurrency within a few hours after the breach, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

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ForkLog 12 13.05.2021

CipherTrace: Hackers Stole $156 Million from DeFi Protocols in 2021

In 2021, losses from cryptocurrency-related crime fell, but the volume of thefts in the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector reached a record $156 million. This is stated in CipherTrace's latest report.

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ForkLog 14 13.05.2021

DeFi protocol xToken loses $25 million in hack

The attacker drained assets valued at around $25 million from the DeFi protocol xToken.

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