The harrowing incident highlights the proliferation of risky investment schemes and dubious operators in the crypto industry, but also blockchain technology’s potential to help track missing funds.
South Korea's third-largest crypto exchange has reportedly been seized by police over allegations it faked most of its trading volume.
An Australian serial conman has been extradited to New South Wales to face fraud charges involving over $1 million in bitcoin.
Russia's anti-money laundering agency Rosfinmonitoring has already built a prototype blockchain analytics tool, according to a report.
The 25-year-old received a sentence of more than two years for the 2018 theft of XRP worth around $300,000 at the time.
Crypto businessman Danilo Afonso Pechin remains jailed after Brazil's High Court refused to hear his request for freedom.
The two men allegedly shipped opioids into the U.S. and sold them on the dark web for millions in bitcoin.
Vinnik will reportedly face charges including defrauding more than 100 people in six French cities from 2016 to 2018.
The alleged BTC-e operator stands accused of extortion, aggravated money laundering and conspiracy.
The “large-scale" money laundering operation ran from 2015 through 2020, police officials allege.
The blockchain analytics firm claims its new system respects crypto users’ privacy while also flagging suspect transactions.
China-based blockchain analysis firm PeckShield tracked 100 million crypto addresses for its research.
Two promoters of the crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin were found dead in Mexico last month.
Cryptocurrency scams continue to appear on YouTube, misusing content from influential people in the space and stealing from the gullible.
The novel Chinese scam saw perpetrators create fake crypto assets to fleece investors seeking arbitrage opportunities.