The ‘Hack’ section on crypto brings together news and insights on hacker attacks in the cryptocurrency world, highlighting vulnerabilities, economic impacts and security measures taken.
61 Posts
G. Love lost 5.92 BTC — roughly $420,000 — after downloading a fake Ledger Live app from the Apple Mac App Store on April 11, 2026. ZachXBT traced the funds to KuCoin. Here is what every hardware wallet user needs to know.
Anthropic has developed Claude Mythos, an AI model too dangerous to release publicly — it found thousands of vulnerabilities across every major OS and browser. Enter Project Glasswing.
X, Elon Musk's social network, will automatically lock any account that mentions crypto for the first time. Nikita Bier says it will "eliminate 99% of phishing incentives."
Drift Protocol lost $285M in just 12 minutes on Solana as the North Korean Lazarus Group drained three vaults. ZachXBT accused Circle of ignoring the theft through its own CCTP bridge — raising urgent questions about stablecoin issuer responsibility.
Jonathan Spalletta, 36, has been charged with stealing $54 million from DeFi exchange Uranium Finance in 2021 by exploiting smart contract vulnerabilities. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison.
Binance posts record OTC trading volumes in early 2026, but a sophisticated scraping attack has put the personal data of 1.5 million users up for sale on the dark web.
The FBI and the French Gendarmerie arrested John Daghita, alias 'Lick', in the Caribbean. The son of a government contractor allegedly embezzled over $46 million in cryptocurrency from US Marshals. The case had been exposed by on-chain investigator ZachXBT.
A combined digital and physical attack emptied Sillytuna's wallet: 24 million in aEthUSDC disappeared through address poisoning, real violence and laundered funds in Monero.
