Before CoinDCX: Major crypto platform hacks in recent timesCoinDCX suffered a cyberattack in the early hours of Saturday. The cyberattack on the Indian cryptocurrency exchange came as the total mark...
21 Jul, 2025, 01.56 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: CoinDCX cyberattack — What you need to know about the $44 million crypto hackThis is the second major crypto hack involving an Indian exchange within a year, following the high-profile WazirX breach in 2024. ET break...
20 Jul, 2025, 06.29 PM IST
US recovers $225 million stolen in crypto scamDozens of people in the United States and more than 400 victims around the world thought they were making legitimate crypto investments whe...
19 Jun, 2025, 07.57 AM IST
Bybit restores Ethereum reserves after $1.5 billion crypto hack; details hereDubai-based crypto exchange Bybit has fully restored its Ethereum reserves following a $1.5 billion hack last week. The exchange secured 44...
25 Feb, 2025, 01.25 AM IST
Bybit cold wallet hacked: $1.46 billion stolen in one of cryptocurrency’s biggest exchange theftsBybit CEO Ben Zhou has confirmed that one of the exchange’s offline Ethereum wallets was compromised in a cyberattack. While assuring users...
22 Feb, 2025, 12.21 AM IST
WazirX completes asset rebalancing, token distribution awaits creditor approvalWazirX completed its asset rebalancing post a $230 million security breach and seeks user approval for a distribution scheme covering 85% o...
11 Feb, 2025, 10.55 AM IST
WazirX freezes first tranche of stolen funds worth USD 3 millionWazirX successfully froze $3 million in stolen assets from last year's cyberattack. Efforts spearheaded by founder Nischal Shetty aim to re...
17 Jan, 2025, 10.19 PM IST
Hacker behind $234 million India crypto theft starts washing fundsThe perpetrator on Monday moved 2,500 Ether tokens worth about $6.3 million to Tornado Cash — a sanctioned service that blurs the origin of...
03 Sep, 2024, 03.47 PM IST
WazirX parent looking for ‘white knights’ to rescue crypto exchange“There are several ideas from ‘white knights’ to collaborate … there are creative ways to do this rather than acquiring the platform (by a ...
03 Sep, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
WazirX says FIR filed in $230 million security breachCrypto exchange WazirX on Tuesday said an FIR has been filed in the case of a $230 million security breach that happened at the platform la...
06 Aug, 2024, 08.34 PM IST
Crypto hacking thefts double to $1.4 bln in first half, say researchersThe amount of cryptocurrency stolen in hacks globally more than doubled in the first six months of 2024 from a year earlier, driven by a sm...
05 Jul, 2024, 06.47 PM IST
US seizes crypto linked to Southeast Asian investment scamU.S. authorities said the scam that prompted the seizure involved a crypto-investment fraud known as pig butchering. In such schemes, fraud...
13 Dec, 2023, 08.33 PM IST
Crypto criminals steal over $10bn to date, despite crypto crime slowing downCrypto security threats cost nearly $730 million in August 2021 alone. An individual stole $610 million of this total in a Poly Network hei...
28 Aug, 2023, 08.26 PM IST
New York couple plead guilty to bitcoin launderingIn total, the couple admitted to laundering conspiracies arising from the theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cr...
04 Aug, 2023, 11.11 AM IST
FTX reports $415 million in hacked crypto, Bankman-Fried says FTX US is solventFTX has said it had recovered over $5 billion in crypto, cash and liquid securities, but that significant shortfalls remained at both its i...
18 Jan, 2023, 12.15 PM IST
FTX says $415 million in crypto was hackedThe crypto assets recovered to date include $685 million in Solana, $529 million in FTX's proprietary FTT token and $268 million in bitcoin...
18 Jan, 2023, 08.13 AM IST
Crypto hackers set for record year after looting over $3 billionAt least $718 million has been stolen so far in October alone, taking the gross tally for the year past $3 billion and putting 2022 on cour...
13 Oct, 2022, 07.51 AM IST