Crimes | ForkLog - Part 135

ForkLog 13 14.09.2020

DeFi platform bZx loses $8 million in another attack

The DeFi platform bZx has been hacked for the third time this year. This time an unknown attacker withdrew around $8 million.

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ForkLog 8 14.09.2020

SEC fines rapper T.I. for promoting fraudulent ICOs

Rapper Clifford Harris Jr., known by the stage name T.I., has agreed to settle SEC charges over promoting a fraudulent ICO.

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ForkLog 65 11.09.2020

Bitcoin wallet with 69,370 BTC listed for sale on hacker forum

A cryptocurrency wallet containing 69,370 BTC (about $690 million) appeared for sale on the popular hacker forum RaidForums. Hudson Rock's chief technology officer Alon Gal drew attention to it.

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ForkLog 12 11.09.2020

Singapore Bitcoin broker jailed for $267,000 theft; three-year sentence and 12 strokes of the cane

A Singapore court delivered a sentence in the case of the 29-year-old cryptocurrency broker Yaromela Ji Ming Li. Li was charged in connection with the theft of $267,000, according to The Strait Times.

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ForkLog 13 11.09.2020

Russian ‘troll factory’ employee charged with fraud involving cryptocurrency accounts

OFAC indicted Russian national Artem Lifshits in a conspiracy to steal Americans' personal data and to open fraudulent banking and cryptocurrency accounts, the agency said in a press release.

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ForkLog 9 10.09.2020

Organisers of DeFi project vanish with $20m of users’ funds

The DeFi liquidity-mining pool project Yfdexf.Finance carried out an exit scam after investors blocked $20m of assets in its protocol, according to ZyCrypto.

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ForkLog 10 10.09.2020

Ripple accuses YouTube of inaction against scammers

Ripple accuses YouTube of deliberate inaction and challenges the assertion that the video hosting service knew nothing about the scammers on the platform. CoinDesk reports this.

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ForkLog 15 10.09.2020

Eterbase: Hackers moved stolen cryptocurrency to Binance and Huobi

Slovak bitcoin exchange Eterbase reported the initial results of the hack investigation. According to the company, a large part of the funds was moved by the hackers to Binance, Huobi, and HitBTC.

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ForkLog 11 10.09.2020

AT&T suit over $200m payout to bitcoin investor Terpin dismissed

The Central District of California dismissed the suit by BitAngels founder Michael Terpin against telecoms giant AT&T seeking damages, writes CoinDesk.

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ForkLog 9 10.09.2020

Police to verify information about cryptocurrency scammer from Moscow-City

A pensioner from Moscow told the police that he had fallen victim to a scammer who rents an office in the Federation Tower on Presnenskaya Embankment. This was reported by the Moscow agency.

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ForkLog 9 09.09.2020

DeFi project EMD suspected of $2.5 million exit scam

The EOS-based DeFi project EMD's organizers allegedly carried out an exit scam, siphoning $2.5 million of client funds. This was reported by the Chinese analytics company SlowMist.

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ForkLog 20 08.09.2020

Slovak bitcoin exchange Eterbase hacked; losses exceed $5.3 million

On September 8, unknown attackers hacked the Slovakia-based cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase. The platform said user funds in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, XRP, Tezos and Algorand were stolen, totaling more than $5.3 million.

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