Such a hack could torpedo bitcoin’s price, by allowing thieves to swipe coins out of supposedly secure digital wallets. Researchers say a quantum device powerful enough to crack bitcoin is ...

Law enforcement has seized over $3.6 billion in bitcoin of the total $4.5 billion drained in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement Tuesday that it had ...

U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to green-light the return of nearly 80% of the 119,754 bitcoins stolen in the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. In a Tuesday court filing ...

When $72 million worth of bitcoin was stolen from Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based virtual cryptocurrency exchange, it was the second-largest hack of its kind. The 2016 theft sent the entire crypto ...

Attorneys for the US government recently submitted a motion requesting that the Bitcoin (BTC) forfeited as a result of the 2016 Bitfinex hack should be returned to the cryptocurrency exchange.

A new attack vector following the Ledger data breach of July 2020 involves sending convincing but fake hardware wallets to victims. Victims of a hack of customer data held by bitcoin hardware wallet ...

Gox hack, which at its high point handled almost three-quarters of the world’s Bitcoin transactions, are still waiting for repayment of their lost or stolen funds. Almost $23 billion in today ...

The end of 2024 saw a US court authorizing the Justice Department of their plans to sell 69,370 Bitcoins back to the market, after seizing the stolen assets from a Silk Road hack more than a ...