Crime

Crypto Money Laundering Reports Spiked in Japan Last Year, Police Say

Reports of suspicious cryptocurrency transactions in Japan soared last year, but were a tiny fraction of the overall total.

New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has given an idea of the losses arising from a hack on its platform last month.

Bitfinex has announced that 27 of the bitcoin stolen in a major 2016 hack have been returned after they were retrieved by the U.S. government.

The FBI is reaching out to those who invested in the now-worthless BCC token offered by the defunct crypto exchange BitConnect.

Cryptocurrencies seized by Belgian law enforcement from online drug dealers are set to be sold off by an Ireland-based auction house.

Eight apps have been removed from Microsoft’s app store after Symantec found they could illicitly mine cryptocurrency.

The move came after the same judge denied an SEC request for a preliminary injunction in November.

San Francisco-based crypto exchange desk Coinbase has just forked out a $30,000 bounty to the finder of a critical bug in its systems.

Hamas is soliciting bitcoin donations for its military operations, but so far has only garnered a few thousand dollars.

A 20-year-old man has been formally charged in a U.S. supreme court indictment over 52 cases of SIM-swap identity and crypto theft.