Tag Archives: Crypto Theft

A man named Andrew Schober is accusing two young men in Britain of stealing his cryptocurrency fortune and refusing to give it back. Andrew Schober Is Working to Get What’s His The situation is unique in the sense that the two culprits in question were initially still minors when they committed the theft. Named Benedict Thompson and Oliver Read, both are alleged to have stolen the money three years ago in 2018 from Schober, who allegedly owned a crypto wallet known as...

Phone service provider AT&T is once again being sued over a potential SIM-swapping case. This time, the plaintiff is a man named Seth Shapiro, who says that AT&T mishandled his number transfer, causing him to lose as much as $1.9 million in cryptocurrency funds.SIM-Swapping Isn’t DisappearingSIM-swapping has become one of the most dangerous and prominent ways of garnering funds that one has no right to. The process can be done in one of two ways. The hacker potentially gets a hold of...

It’s happened again, folks. Another cryptocurrency theft is in the books. This time, the victims are the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf.me lending platform, both of which are reporting combined total losses of more than $25 million.Uniswap and Lendf.me Have Been CompromisedCryptocurrency theft is nothing new, but what’s arguably the most frustrating about stories like these is that while many companies and organizations in the industry are seeking to improve their security protocols, hackers...

In a world where crypto theft appears to be running rampant, Google is taking the steps necessary to ensure digital currency users can keep their money where it belongs… in their own wallets.Google Fights Crypto CrimeGoogle has recently announced the removal of just under 50 separate Chrome extensions from its web store. These extensions posed as legitimate cryptocurrency wallet applications, but in fact contained hacker code that caused all funds and login data stored within them to be...