Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform.

December 09, 2024 - Editor’s Note: This December 9, 2024, article was updated on January 21, 2025, to clarify the nature of the author’s firm’s actions in advising parties with an interest in the ...

The U.S. government has announced that the Bitcoin seized after the 2016 Bitfinex hack should be wired back to its rightful owners who fell victim to the attack. The value of the recovered assets has ...

Courtesy: Alexandria Adult Detention Center. The New York couple charged with trying to launder $4.5 billion in bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of Bitfinex appear set to plead guilty in the case, a new ...

Hackers successfully pilfered more than $1.5 million from a series of bitcoin ATMs earlier this month after exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability. In a statement over the weekend, bitcoin ATM ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that a post from the agency on X purportedly approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds was fake, saying its account had been breached. The SEC's ...