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U.K. citizen pleaded guilty to large-scale hacking of celebrity accounts in social networks for bitcoin fraud. Joseph James O'Connor is recognized as one of the hackers who hacked the Twitter accounts of several celebrities in 2020 including American star Kim Kardashian, ...

Regulator investigates possible sanctions violation by Russia The DOJ will check whether Russians gained illegal access to the exchange The United States Department of Justice has launched an investigation against the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The agenc ...

Boomberg cited its own sources as saying that the U.S. Department of Justice is checking to see if Russian citizens have used the Binance exchange to circumvent sanctions. The investigation is being conducted by the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Jus ...

Bitzlato, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has recently refuted claims made in the media that Anatoly Legkodymov, one of its co-founders, has admitted to engaging in large-scale money laundering. Rumours started circulating online that Legkodymov, who was arrested by the FBI in mid-January, was ...

Former Deutsche Bank employee Rashawn Russell has been apprehended in Brooklyn, accused of defrauding investors and engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. As per the US Department of Justice, Russell defrauded several investors by falsely assuring them that their money would be invested in cryptocurre ...

The Department of Justice in the United States has made a groundbreaking announcement stating that they have seized digital assets worth approximately $112 million from cybercriminals who were involved in cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering. According to the US Department of Justice, six ac ...

MicroStrategy, a software company, recently made a significant move in the cryptocurrency market. The company paid off a loan from Silvergate bank ahead of schedule and also invested $150 million in bitcoins. Despite reports of Silvergate's bankruptcy, MicroStrategy clarified that it had only one ...

The US Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the crash of the stablecoin TerraUSD, which occurred last year. Sources familiar with the situation revealed to the Wall Street Journal that former Terraform Labs employees who handled the USTC stablecoin have already been interrogated by t ...

A man has been sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court for defrauding investors and stealing over $2 million through a cryptocurrency mining scam. According to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, Chet J. Stojanovich, who also goes by Chester J. Stojanovich, operated Chet Mining C ...

The Forsage investment platform, founded by four Russians, has been charged by the US Department of Justice for operating a pyramid scheme that has allegedly defrauded investors of $340 million. The accused individuals include Vladimir Okhotnikov, who used the pseudonym Lado, Olena Oblamskaya (al ...