Bybit suffers a record $1.4B hack, Bitcoin plunges, and fears of contagion grow. Meanwhile, Trump boosts XRP sentiment, ...

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou confirmed the incident, stating that the exchange’s ETH cold wallet was compromised due to a sophisticated ...

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

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 ...

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

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 25-year-old resident of Athens, was arrested in October, ...

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 ...

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 ...