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ForkLog 7 02.09.2021

Suspects in attack on cryptocurrency trader detained at Kemerovo airport

The police have identified two suspects in the theft of 50 million rubles from a resident of Tomsk, which he had received from selling cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 40 02.09.2021

BitConnect scam promoter to repay $24 million to investors

Former BitConnect director and promoter Glenn Arcaro pleaded guilty to involvement in a cryptocurrency fraud that defrauded investors of more than $2 billion.

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ForkLog 36 01.09.2021

Eastern Europe leads illicit crypto‑transaction volumes, Chainalysis finds

Chainalysis specialists analyzed illicit cryptocurrency transactions from July 2020 to June 2021.

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ForkLog 25 01.09.2021

Hacked DeFi Protocol Cream Finance to Reimburse $18 Million in Damages

The developers of the decentralized Cream Finance protocol will reimburse affected users for losses resulting from the recent flash loan attack.

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ForkLog 14 01.09.2021

Phishing attack on NFT project nets hacker over $1 million

Messari analyst Chase Devens was among the victims of a phishing attack on the Aurory Project NFT drop on the Solana blockchain. The attacker drained wallets of crypto and NFTs worth more than $1 million.

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ForkLog 10 31.08.2021

Collector pays $335,000 for Banksy NFT; authenticity of the work questioned

An NFT collector, Pranksy, purchased a work allegedly attributed to the anonymous Banksy. He paid 100 ETH (about $335,000 at the rate prevailing at the time of the deal). A few hours later, he received a duplicate token.

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ForkLog 11 31.08.2021

Analysts: Token-fraud volume in Russia reaches 2.2 billion rubles

The volume of fraud involving digital assets in the first half of 2021 totaled $1.5 billion, two to three times higher than in the same period in 2020. This was reported by analytics firm Zecurion.

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ForkLog 20 31.08.2021

Media: Co-founders of the Finiko pyramid scheme have been declared internationally wanted

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan granted the petitions for arrest in absentia of three Finiko pyramid co-founders — Marat and Edward Sabirov, and Zygmunt Zygmuntovich.

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ForkLog 17 30.08.2021

DeFi project xToken suffers second attack in a year; losses estimated at $4.5 million

The DeFi project xToken team reported a breach of the protocol. Users' losses are estimated at $4.5 million.

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ForkLog 9 30.08.2021

In Venezuela, a man is suspected of staging his own kidnapping to steal $1.15 million in Bitcoin

Venezuelan authorities are searching for a 23-year-old man who allegedly orchestrated his own kidnapping to steal bitcoins worth $1.15 million. This was reported on Instagram by Douglas Rico, head of the police department for scientific, criminal and forensic investigations.

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ForkLog 27 30.08.2021

Hackers drain more than $18m from Cream Finance DeFi protocol

The decentralised Cream Finance protocol was attacked via a flash loan and lost more than $18 million.

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ForkLog 26 30.08.2021

Two Russian women lose more than 8 million rubles to cryptocurrency scammers

A 63-year-old woman from Voronezh was swindled by criminals who promised profits from cryptocurrency trading, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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