Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
Home invasions became the most common form of crypto wrench attacks worldwide during the first half of 2026, rising to 20 incidents from one.Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, both of Waller, Texas, were sentenced to 180 months and 186...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
The company said some non-sensitive customer data was exposed, including user IDs, names and email addresses.Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis said it was targeted in a cybersecurity incident, similar to those suffered recently by other platfo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
Some political and administration figures tried to make hay of the biggest-ever crypto heist. Soon after the $6.3 billion hack of Binance, the biggest in crypto history, some political and administration figures began offering opinions with a US elec...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
Some political and administration figures tried to make hay of the biggest-ever crypto heist. Soon after the $6.3 billion hack of Binance, the biggest in crypto history, some political and administration figures began offering their opinions with a U...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
Attackers raced to convert stolen stablecoins into crypto that issuers could not freeze as industry players like Tether and Circle moved to immobilize billions of dollars in assets.Attackers behind Binance’s estimated $6.3 billion hack still control...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 days ago
The stablecoin issuer’s US Treasury holdings are comparable to those of major foreign holders, while its Bitcoin reserves were valued at $8.37 billion at the end of September.Tether reported $1.5 billion in third-quarter operating profit as its exces...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Circle, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks fell sharply Friday, a day after Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion security breach.Shares of publicly traded cryptocurrency companies fell sharply Friday, with Coinbase dropping more than 13% a day after...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Bitcoin faces mounting quantum security concerns as Ripple secures a US banking charter, USDC gains ground in Europe and VanEck adds BTC to a new ETF.The debate over quantum computing has raised serious questions about Bitcoin’s long-term security, b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
A recap of Cointelegraph’s live coverage of the Binance hack, including early breach reports and the exchange’s full reimbursement pledge.This recap summarizes Cointelegraph’s reporting on the Binance hack and has been updated with the exchange’s lat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
How Binance’s $6.3 billion hack unfolded, from the first onchain alerts to $3 billion in frozen funds and a widening security investigation.Live coverage has ended. The updates below document Cointelegraph’s reporting on the record $6.3 billion Binan...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Bitcoin circled $77,000 as crypto markets navigated US stock-market downside, while the gold price fell to its lowest in a year.Bitcoin (BTC) stayed under pressure below $80,000 at Friday’s Wall Street open as AI fears returned to intensify a broader...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin’s claim to be a better form of digital gold?They say all that glitters is not gold, and that took on a completely different mea...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 2:34 pm UTCBinance is aiming to resume withdrawals within 40 hours and publish a full proof-of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Binance is working with law enforcement to recover $3 billion that is frozen, after setting aside more than $6.3 billion from the company’s funds to cover the shortfall.Binance is working with the FBI to help recover some of the funds stolen in the r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
US agencies are investigating the theft and helping trace stolen assets, while Binance says about $3 billion has been frozen.Update (Oct. 30 at 9:04 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include FBI and US Secret Service statements reported by Re...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
The exchange said it set aside more than $6.34 billion to cover losses and would include the assets in its next proof-of-reserves report.Binance said Friday that it had set aside more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover losses from its hack,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accountability concerns.Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) has proposed redirectin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Bitcoin held above $76,000 after a $6.3 billion Binance hack and a tech-stock sell-off, as momentum indicators pointed to a possible rebound.Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $77,000 on Friday as crypto market liquidations passed $1.5 billion over 24 hours....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Security experts said attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP-7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards.Compromised signing systems likely enabled Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, while Ethereum’s EIP-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
The attackers held 18,270 BTC early Friday, topping Coinbase’s reported corporate holdings, and an Ether stash exceeding 500,000 ETH.The attackers behind the $6.3 billion Binance hack held more Bitcoin on Friday than crypto exchange Coinbase’s holdin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
North Korean hackers previously used THORChain to move funds stolen from Bybit and Bitget, prompting calls for the protocol to intervene.THORChain’s RUNE token rose more than 13% on Friday after Binance confirmed a $6.3 billion hack.RUNE climbed to $...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Trezor urged customers who bought devices from CryptoBilis since March to move their funds after a report of a suspected hardware implant.Trezor has urged customers who bought its hardware wallets from former authorized reseller CryptoBilis since Mar...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 08:37 am UTCBinance’s investigation into its $6.3 billion hack has uncovered “additional point...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
Michael Saylor says Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans more BTC purchases.Bitcoin treasury company Strategy is looking to finance more Bi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 4 days ago
TRM Labs said it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.Cybersecurity researchers from TRM Labs and Chainalysis, along with onchain investigator Z...
