Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance is working with law enforcement to recover $3 billion that is frozen, after setting aside more than $6.3 billion from the company’s funds to cover the shortfall.Binance is working with the FBI to help recover some of the funds stolen in the r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
US agencies are investigating the theft and helping trace stolen assets, while Binance says about $3 billion has been frozen.Update (Oct. 30 at 9:04 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include FBI and US Secret Service statements reported by Re...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The exchange said it set aside more than $6.34 billion to cover losses and would include the assets in its next proof-of-reserves report.Binance said Friday that it had set aside more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover losses from its hack,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accountability concerns.Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) has proposed redirectin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin held above $76,000 after a $6.3 billion Binance hack and a tech-stock sell-off, as momentum indicators pointed to a possible rebound.Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $77,000 on Friday as crypto market liquidations passed $1.5 billion over 24 hours....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Security experts said attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP-7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards.Compromised signing systems likely enabled Binance’s $6.3 billion hack, while Ethereum’s EIP-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The attackers held 18,270 BTC early Friday, topping Coinbase’s reported corporate holdings, and an Ether stash exceeding 500,000 ETH.The attackers behind the $6.3 billion Binance hack held more Bitcoin on Friday than crypto exchange Coinbase’s holdin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
North Korean hackers previously used THORChain to move funds stolen from Bybit and Bitget, prompting calls for the protocol to intervene.THORChain’s RUNE token rose more than 13% on Friday after Binance confirmed a $6.3 billion hack.RUNE climbed to $...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Trezor urged customers who bought devices from CryptoBilis since March to move their funds after a report of a suspected hardware implant.Trezor has urged customers who bought its hardware wallets from former authorized reseller CryptoBilis since Mar...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 08:37 am UTCBinance’s investigation into its $6.3 billion hack has uncovered “additional point...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Michael Saylor says Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans more BTC purchases.Bitcoin treasury company Strategy is looking to finance more Bi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
TRM Labs said it has high confidence in the attribution, while ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address.Cybersecurity researchers from TRM Labs and Chainalysis, along with onchain investigator Z...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick said the breach could accelerate a shift toward decentralized trading and strengthen his case for Uniswap’s UNI token reaching $100 by 2030.The Binance hack could accelerate a shift in crypto trading toward dece...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Blockaid’s Ido Ben-Natan suspects attackers manipulated Binance’s transaction-signing infrastructure, drawing parallels with the Bybit hack.The suspected multi-billion-dollar Binance hack may have involved attackers manipulating the exchange’s transa...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance said attackers may have used a compromised DevOps laptop to access internal infrastructure.Update (Oct. 30 at 2:44 am UTC): This article has been updated to include Binance’s preliminary investigation into the security breach.Binance said its...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin and Ether tumbled as the broader crypto market fell 3.3%, with reports of suspicious multibillion-dollar transfers from Binance-linked wallets fueling uncertainty.Cryptocurrency markets fell sharply Thursday as reports of a potential multibil...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin, Ether and the broader crypto market took a dive as Binance suffered a multibillion-dollar hack.Update, Oct. 30 at 1:19 am UTC: This article has been updated with fresh market data, Binance’s pledge to cover all losses and its revised frozen...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Singapore police say tampered Ledgers started showing up there on September 10. South Korean lawmakers look set to delay the crypto tax law for a fourth time.Singapore police say at least two cases involving tampered Ledger hardware wallets have been...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $2.54 billion in assets has been frozen after a multibillion-dollar hack, with further freezes possible as investigators trace funds.Oct. 30 at 12:26 am UTCThe suspected multi-billion-dollar Binance hack may have i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance is investigating a multibillion-dollar security breach involving its Ethereum wallets, with Tether and Circle freezing more than $2.36 billion in stablecoins.Binance is investigating a potential multibillion-dollar security breach involving o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 07:37 am UTCThe attacker behind Binance’s $6.3 billion hack did not simply use one engineer’s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $3 billion in assets has been frozen after a multibillion-dollar hack, with further freezes possible as investigators trace funds.Oct. 30 at 02:21 am UTCFirst Digital CEO Vincent Chok said it has frozen the FDUSD s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance is investigating a potential multibillion-dollar security breach that is estimated to have impacted $6.3 billion in funds. Binance is investigating a potential multibillion-dollar security breach involving one of its Ethereum wallets, after s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance pledged to cover all losses after a $6.3 billion hack, with about $3 billion in assets frozen by the exchange and its partners.This article contains our initial reporting on the Binance hack. Follow Cointelegraph’s live coverage for the lates...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A new 1kx report finds that public companies are capturing a larger share of blockchain revenue, driven by institutional adoption and real-world applications.Publicly traded companies accounted for 16% of blockchain industry revenue in 2026, more tha...
