Crypto Crime News

William Lonergan Hill, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, has been granted bail after being arrested in April for money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The specific terms of his bail are still under negotiation.

Cybersecurity firm SlowMist reports that the Ethereum ecosystem has lost $400 million to exploits so far this year, amid a 50% rise in crypto hacking incidents.

Northern Data, a company with stakes in both cryptocurrency and AI infrastructure, is currently facing a lawsuit filed in California by former executives Joshua Porter and Gulsen Kama.

Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, founder of the defunct FTX crypto exchange, is embroiled in a financial scandal involving over $100 million in misused company assets for political contributions.

A U.S. federal court has ordered Sam Ikkurty, a fraudulent crypto hedge fund owner, to repay nearly $84 million to investors deceived by his Ponzi-like scheme.

On July 3, the Bittensor (TAO) blockchain was temporarily suspended due to an attack on several user wallets, resulting in at least one of them losing $8 million.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) claim that secondary sales of BNB coins on Binance qualify as securities under the Howey test.