Bitcoin Heist: ED's statewide search includes house of Cong MLA’s sonsThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched multiple premises in Karnataka, including those linked to the sons of BDA chairman NA Harris, in ...
20 Apr, 2026, 06.21 PM IST
ED searches premises linked to Karnataka Congress MLA’s sons in crypto probeEnforcement Directorate conducted raids across Bengaluru on Monday. The searches targeted the premises of Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar F...
20 Apr, 2026, 11.23 AM IST
Trump's bitcoin reserve a 'digital Fort Knox'President Donald Trump has shown further support for the cryptocurrency sector by establishing a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" in the US, whi...
16 Mar, 2025, 08.00 AM IST
From jail to the spotlight: Who is Alexander Vinnik? The Russian prisoner swapped for American Marc Fogel in a global dealAlexander Vinnik, a Russian cybercrime suspect, was exchanged for American Marc Fogel in a high-profile prisoner swap. Vinnik ran BTC-e, a ...
14 Feb, 2025, 01.07 AM IST
Japanese crypto exchange says lost $300 million bitcoin in 'leak'Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin said it had lost bitcoin worth around $300 million in what it described as "an unauthorised leak" from...
01 Jun, 2024, 09.38 AM IST
Karnataka government to reopen Bitcoin scam, to get it probed thoroughlyThe case is likely to be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Home Minister Dr Parameshwara has hinted. Speaking to ...
27 Jun, 2023, 08.17 PM IST
Congress regime government to revisit Bitcoin probeThe Home minister was responding to the BJP’s accusation of the Congress regime having gone silent on all the allegations it had made while...
14 Jun, 2023, 06.39 PM IST
Government will probe bitcoin scam, says Karnataka minister Priyank KhargeA Bitcoin heist case made headlines two years ago after the Bengaluru City Police submitted a charge sheet before a local court naming Srik...
21 May, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
CBI rules out FBI presence in Karnataka to probe Bitcoin hacking caseThe Bitcoin case had brought turmoil in the state last year when media reported that a hacker had hacked into the Bitcoin portal and siphon...
10 Apr, 2022, 02.08 PM IST
BJP president Nadda's account hacked, tweets on Ukraine crisis, crypto currency postedPrime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was also hacked briefly in December last year, and message related to Bitcoin was posted.
27 Feb, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
US justice department seizes $3.6 billion in Bitcoin and arrests married coupleThe couple, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather Morgan, 31, were accused in a criminal complaint of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoins t...
09 Feb, 2022, 02.56 PM IST
Cong seeks SC-monitored SIT probe into Karnataka multi-crore Bitcoin 'scam'Addressing a press conference, Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala posed a set of six questions to the prim...
13 Nov, 2021, 06.31 PM IST
Many BellTroxes: Delhi is now India’s hacker hubReports of "hacking for hire" operations came as no surprise to India’s growing ethical hacker community.
10 Jun, 2020, 08.17 PM IST
Coinsecure announces 2 crore reward to recover lost bitcoins; Promises refund in 15 daysIt is still unclear why the private key -- password that is kept by the company and stored offline — were leaked online, leading to the hac...
14 Apr, 2018, 08.47 AM IST
Bitcoins worth Rs 20 crore stolen from exchange in India's biggest crypto theftCoinsecure, the Delhi-based cryptocurrency exchange, has filed an FIR accusing its CSO, Amitabh Saxena, of siphoning off the money from the...
13 Apr, 2018, 10.14 AM IST
Bitcoin: Income tax department in tough spot as investors go all techThe income tax department just found it difficult to figure out whether investors actually hold any bitcoins or the income earned from thes...
30 Dec, 2017, 09.24 AM IST
HackCoin: Hackathon to explore uses of bitcoin tech to build apps in payments, big data, digital experienceUnlike in other hackathonsA, the participants will work on the rarely-used blockchain— the technology behind bitcoin.
30 Jul, 2015, 03.02 AM IST