Crime News

Tracking hacks, scams, and legal actions impacting the blockchain and crypto industry.

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Crime

US Treasury says lawful crypto users may use mixers for financial privacy

March 2026 Treasury report draws new line between crypto privacy and crypto crime.

4 weeks ago

Crime

Dogecoin gaining popularity for illegal activities, Elliptic report says

Elliptic revealed that there have been several instances where the popular meme coin have been used by bad actors for their gain.

4 years ago

Crime

South Korean prosecutors have banned Terra employees from leaving the country

Terraform Labs employees are banned from leaving South Korea as the prosecutors office explores charging Do Kwon with fraud and other crimes.

4 years ago

Crime

CipherTrace report shows a decline in illicit activity in the crypto ecosystem

CipherTrace reported that crypto crimes has reduced and the crypto ecosystem has grown exponentially in recent years.

4 years ago

Hacks

ApolloX suffers $2.8M hack after securing latest seed funding round

Hours after ApolloX confirmed that it had completed a new funding round, a hacker exploited a bug on the network to steal 53 million APX tokens, worth $2.8 million.

4 years ago

Scams

Newspaper Twitter account hacked to promote Goblintown phishing scam

The hacker behind the goblintown.wtf scam is also responsible for the attack on the Azuki Beanz NFT project.

4 years ago

Hacks

Attackers drain $5M from Osmosis; FireStake Validator admits to exploiting LP bug

Attackers exploited a bug, initially pointed out in a reddit thread, that allowed users to gain 50% more tokens while adding and withdrawing liquidity on Osmosis.

4 years ago