According to reports, two Texas men were sentenced to prison for 2025 kidnapping a victim at gunpoint in Minnesota and forcing the victim to transfer more than 8000000 USD in cryptocurrency; they were sentenced to 180 months and 186 months in prison, respectively.
Reserve stated that Binance approximately 3380000000 tokens stolen from the hot wallet RSR were converted on Uniswap v3 into 1856 tokens ETH, equivalent to approximately 4100000 USD. Reserve's protocol contracts were unaffected, and holders need take no action.
Binance.US stated that its independent platform was unaffected by the Binance.com security incident, with customer funds and services secure and operating normally. Binance's main site had previously still been conducting a security review and suspending withdrawals.
Three men in Bristol, UK, were sentenced to 5 to 6 years in prison for entering a home, assaulting the victim, and attempting to force him to hand over cryptocurrency; police said the three men failed to obtain anything.
West Midlands Police said that a couple in Birmingham were robbed in a home invasion and forced to transfer a large amount of cryptocurrency, while high-value watches were also stolen. Police are offering a reward for information.
The BlockBeats Telegram channel published a link to an article about “16 Meme scam factories that extract millions of in seconds” and methods for retail investors to avoid them.
Community monitoring indicates that Tether has frozen 218,022.966977 tokens at an address related to the Bitget theft case USDT, at address 0xe07b…7d57. Some of the remaining funds have been converted into BTC or are held in other assets.
PANews cited Scam Sniffer as saying that Duelbits’ hot wallets on Ethereum,BSC and Tron experienced abnormal transfers of approximately 4200000 USD in assets, with private key leakage suspected as the cause.
A crypto industry IT professional and his family in northern France were held hostage by masked men, with approximately 40000 EUR in cryptocurrency forcibly transferred; the suspects remain at large.
Jinse Finance summarizes international developments involving hacker thefts, cryptocurrency fraud and money-laundering cases, crackdowns on illegal mining sites, and crypto regulation and political fundraising developments in the US and UK.