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A trader lost 80 BTC from a new Ledger bought via CryptoBilis as theft estimates near $90 million. The post Trader Loses $6.6 Million in Bitcoin After Buying New Ledger Wallet appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton gets 40 years and forfeits 1,230 Bitcoin. See where seized BTC goes next. The post Dark Web Founder Loses $100 Million in Bitcoin After 40-Year Sentence: Where Does It Go? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

A jury convicted the hacker who stole $53 million in crypto and spent it on Pokémon cards. He faces up to 30 years. The post Crypto Hacker Who Spent Stolen Millions on Pokémon Cards Found Guilty in New York appeared first on BeInCrypto.

ZachXBT posed as a scammer to infiltrate a Chinese crew accused of laundering most of Bybit’s $1.5 billion for North Korea. His launderer repaid him with Kim Jong-un updates, dinner photos, and a mahjong invitation. The investigator says the intel helped freeze funds and attribute Bybit flows. He fronted $349,700 of his own money and…

Chainalysis has attributed the $387 million Bitget theft to North Korean hackers. The firm said the attack lifts the value of crypto stolen by DPRK-linked actors this year above $1 billion. North Korean attackers reportedly used a cross-chain swap to convert stolen XRP into Bitcoin and kept the tokens away from exchanges. Drift, KelpDAO and…

Crypto hack losses reached $766.49 million in September, making it the worst month of 2026 so far. The total jumped about 462% from August’s $136.3 million, according to PeckShield. Two incidents caused most of the damage. Bitget lost roughly $387 million. Liquid Network lost about $320 million, though the people behind it, claiming to be…

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 10 targets on Wednesday. They are tied to an ATM jackpotting scheme run by Tren de Aragua (TdA). The network allegedly washed the stolen cash through cryptocurrency, among other channels. The action also listed 7 crypto addresses belonging to ringleader “Prometheus,” an FBI Most Wanted…

ZachXBT says Bitget hack launderers asked for help in public Discord and Telegram chats. One is tied to the Kelp DAO hack. The post Investigator Finds $387M Bitget Hack Suspects Asking for Help in Public Chats appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that North Korean hackers are likely responsible for a $350 million security breach affecting the cryptocurrency exchange, which compromised a backend system without accessing private keys.

A French family was held captive by assailants targeting their crypto holdings, highlighting a critical blind spot where data leaks expose cryptocurrency users to physical home invasions and violence.