Around 6.8 million BTC have public keys visible onchain. Those are the wallets a quantum computer targets first. Drake puts Q ...

With 13,500 Bitcoin, North Korea’s notorious hacking group is ahead of several Bitcoin holding countries. The total value of its crypto holdings stands at $1.16 billion. Lazarus Group, the notorious ...

The overlap between hacking culture and early Bitcoin adoption is not a coincidence. Both communities shared the same foundational belief: centralized systems ...

Alabama resident Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in the January 2024 hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission's X account. Hackers used the SEC's account to ...

China has officially accused the United States of orchestrating a scheme to steal $14 billion worth of Bitcoin, allegedly one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in history. The claim marks the ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Eric Council Jr. admitted to conspiring with others who took control of the SEC's X account, according to the Department of Justice. Council, a ...

A 26-year-old man from Alabama has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for his role in a social media hack that briefly sent the price of bitcoin BTC $73,879.53 soaring. Eric Council Jr. of ...

The account hack occurred a day before analysts expected the SEC to announce the approval of the spot market Bitcoin ETFs. The hacker’s fake post on Jan. 9, 2024, caused the price of Bitcoin to surge.

NEW YORK -- The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the arrests of a New York couple charged with conspiring to launder cryptocurrency presently valued at $4.5 billion -- stolen during the 2016 ...

An Alabama man pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with the January 2024 hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission's X account, which was used to falsely claim that the SEC had approved ...