2024-5-14 12:24 |
A US district court in Columbia has ordered the seizure of 279 crypto accounts linked to North Korean operatives. According to a May 10 report, Justice Timothy Kelly has ruled that the accounts be frozen and handed over to the… origin »
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London-based investment firm Attestor Capital, a top holder of FTX bankruptcy claims, has filed suit against a FTX creditor who allegedly promised to sell the firm two FTX accounts, only to back out of the deal once the value of its claims skyrocketed.
2024-3-19 20:45 | |
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The news that the FTX attack was not an intricate scheme but a mere sim-swap attack was among the most eye-catching revelations in the crypto market this week. Recent court documents show three individuals lured mobile phone providers with fake identity to access victim’s financial accounts.
2024-2-3 14:19 | |
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Failed crypto lender Celsius Network has received bankruptcy court approval for its plan to transform into a creditor-owned Bitcoin mining firm, as reported by Bloomberg. The approval is part of a wider proposal aimed at repaying customers who have frozen their accounts for over a year.
2023-11-10 07:00 | |
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2022 was not a great year for cryptocurrency interest accounts; the industry’s largest and most trusted crypto interest account providers (notably, BlockFi and Celsius Network) froze customer withdrawals and filed for bankruptcy within just a few weeks of each other, leaving billions of dollars of user funds to be decided upon in court.
2023-10-3 21:48 | |
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Corporate bank accounts and a Texas property are now untouchable after the executive’s July arrest
2023-9-6 17:40 | |
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BlockFi, the now-defunct crypto lending company, has filed a court application to move "trade-only" assets from users' accounts to stablecoins
2023-8-31 21:42 | |
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US-based who were unable to withdraw from BlockFi can now access their accounts after a directive by a Bankruptcy Court on Aug. 16
2023-8-18 22:54 | |
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Bybit claimed that a contractor abused their position to transfer crypto assets to personal accounts. "Like any other thing in action, USDT is capable of being held on trust," ruled the court.
2023-7-26 18:00 | |
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Crypto exchange Kraken has been asked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) through a federal court order to provide account and transactional information. According to the June 30 court filing, the IRS needs the information on Kraken accounts that traded…
2023-7-2 14:16 | |
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Bankrupt lending platform BlockFi said in a June 12 email that it must perform updates before it begins to distribute funds to users. Upgrades coming in summer BlockFi said that a June 9 court order determined that users own the assets in their wallet accounts and that the company can allow certain withdrawals.
2023-6-13 00:36 | |
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Certain Celsius users, largely those who only ever held funds in custody accounts, had previously been limited to withdrawing up to 94% of their funds.
2023-5-6 00:15 | |
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Celsius co-founder and former CEO Alex Mashinksy said Celsius Earn’s accounts are not securities in his defense of the New York’s attorney general charges against him, according to a May 2 court filing.
2023-5-4 17:35 | |
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“I gave up my title as CEO to unfreeze these accounts and am also in danger of being in contempt of court,” said Ray Youssef.
2023-4-18 19:06 | |
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Lawyers asked the court for an early stage summary judgment, to ring-fence FTX assets frozen in the accounts of non-U.S. customers.
2023-3-25 21:24 | |
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Rewards program included high-yield interest accounts, a refer-a-friend scheme, and a mechanism to share in the spread of trades should they execute at a lower asking price.
2023-3-1 14:13 | |
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Around $100 million have since been withdrawn from the Swiss account, the securities regulator said in a court filing as it sued the company for misleading customers.
2023-2-18 17:27 | |
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Liquidators for Three Arrows Capital (3AC) have seized $35.6 million from the collapsed crypto hedge fund’s bank accounts in Singapore three months after getting the nod from that country’s High Court to begin probing 3ACs assets in the country.
2022-12-3 21:37 | |
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The report’s findings may affect the court’s decisions about custodial accounts and preference claims.
2022-10-8 22:36 | |
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A class action lawsuit filed in a Georgia court alleges the crypto exchange failed to secure users' accounts against theft and hacks, and seeks damages upwards of $5 million.
2022-8-23 11:02 | |
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The Metropolitan Commercial Bank has filed a statement in court saying that it supported the Voyager motion to honor withdrawals from the bank's For Benefit Of (FBO) accounts. The post Metropolitan Commercial Bank Supports Voyager Motion to Honor Withdrawals appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-8-1 13:00 | |
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Crypto lending platform Celsius Network had filed for bankruptcy on July 13. A month prior to that the crypto lender had ceased withdrawals along with transfers from accounts. Celsius representatives appeared in court which is in relation to the company’s bankruptcy hearing.
2022-7-20 07:00 | |
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Canada Emergencies Act, a law that allows the government to freeze the bank accounts of protesters without the necessity for a court order. This will be the first time the law is enforced.
2022-2-17 14:31 | |
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According to recent reports, El Salvador's Court of Accounts is bucking up for an investigation into the government's Bitcoin purchases following a complaint. The probe will reportedly also look into The post El Salvador's Court of Accounts to probe Bitcoin roll-out appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-9-18 09:40 | |
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El Salvador’s Court of Accounts has received a complaint concerning alleged irregularities in the country’s bitcoin purchases and construction of ATM kiosks, according to a Reuters report on September 17, 2021.
2021-9-18 17:00 | |
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El Salvador's Court of Accounts will be investigating how the government makes its Bitcoin purchases, following complaints. The post El Salvador Court Investigating Government Bitcoin Purchases appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-9-17 14:45 | |
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London High Court judge Pelling QC has ordered Binance crypto exchange to track hackers and help recover all the $2.6 million stolen on June 6 from Fetch.ai accounts on Binance. The case is part of the public cases involving the cryptocurrency exchange since being ordered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to cease providing any […]
2021-8-14 15:41 | |
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Leading crypto exchange platform Coinbase has been sued in a proposed class action accusing the company of locking six users out of their accounts. Coinbase Users File Complaint, Seek $5Million According to a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court complaint, the Coinbase users allege that the company prevented them from accessing their accounts.
2021-6-9 17:29 | |
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The United States Internal Revenue Services, the country’s main body responsible for collecting taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, will probe users of crypto exchange Kraken after a court order, news outlet Reuters said this morning.
2021-5-7 21:00 | |
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Crypto firm ShapeShift filed a civil action against a former employee of its engineering team who allegedly stole over 90 Bitcoin from company accounts, court documents show. The post ShapeShift employee allegedly stole $900,000 in Bitcoin from company accounts appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-29 19:00 | |
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A “court motion to dismiss,” filed by Ripple Inc. to the United States District Court in Northern California on June 8, aims to dismiss the charges faced by the CEO, Brad Garlinghouse. The motion aims at removing three accounts of fraud by the plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, which did not show how Garlinghouse was purportedly fraudulent […]
2020-6-10 20:46 | |
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Wright has denied moving 50 Bitcoin from one of the ‘Satoshi’ accounts he claimed in court as his own, leaving him in a legal quandary.
2020-5-21 04:07 | |
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A Christchurch High Court has ruled that over 800,000 users of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform Cryptopia, are entitled to the digital assets held in their accounts before the hack occurred.
2020-4-9 23:00 | |
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A Washington Western District Court judge has rejected petitioner William Zietzke’s appeal to stop the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from accessing his Bitstamp trade data. An IRS summons invoked Zietzke to file a petition to quash the tax agency’s investigation into his private accounts.
2019-11-28 21:30 | |
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One year ago in India’s capital, New Delhi, the #MeToo movement started to pick up pace as hundreds of sexual harassment and abuse survivors anonymously shared their experiences online. Many of these testimonials were published by anonymous social media accounts to protect survivors’ identity, and safely raise awareness of the realities of sexual assault in India.
2019-10-4 12:41 | |
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Seoul’s Southern District Court has ruled that the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, CoinOne, is required to compensate users who have suffered losses due to hacked accounts that violate the withdrawal limit imposed by government policies.
2019-9-28 22:00 | |
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Earlier this week, The Madras High Court in India ruled against any possibility of linking Aadhaar or any government ID with social media accounts. Justice S. Manikumar, said linking Aadhaar to emails or accounts would violate the original ruling from the Supreme Court which allows the IDs use only for government welfare schemes.
2019-8-23 15:51 | |
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A California-based couple will have to forfeit their cryptocurrency riches after pleading guilty to running a dark web drug operation ring. Jabari Monson, 32, of Merced, California pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute controlled substances.
2019-8-7 11:04 | |
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A judge in Canada has approved over $1. 6 million in fees for businesses seeking to recover funds lost as a result of QuadrigaCX’s demise. In a legal notice published yesterday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge Darlene Jamieson said: “There being no expressed opposition to the activities and accounts as presented by the monitor nor to the fees of its legal counsel, I approve the fees and activities of the monitor during the CCAA proceedings and the fees presented towards legal counsel.
2019-8-1 14:12 | |
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By CCN Markets: Gerald Cotten, the CEO of the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX whose death is the reason for $190 million of missing funds and a bankrupt company, had transferred user funds to his personal accounts to use them as security for margin trading, a report by Ernst & Young revealed.
2019-6-21 13:07 | |
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The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has revealed that users’ cryptocurrency funds were not maintained exclusively in Quadriga CX’s cold and hot wallets, but also on other exchanges and platforms.
2019-6-21 11:00 | |
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GBB recently fell victim to a hacking scandal that saw the firm lose nearly $13 million via double spend-type attacks. As part of GBBs recovery efforts, the company has closed down a total of 2,568 suspicious accounts.
2019-6-6 17:10 | |
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A Sao Paulo court has blocked funds in bank accounts linked to Grupo Bitcoin Banco, with 726,630 reals ($188,000) frozen
2019-6-5 16:13 | |
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The long-standing court battle between Bits of Gold, one of Israel’s pioneer bitcoin trading venues and Bank Leumi, the nation’s second-largest lender, has finally come to an end as the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the cryptocurrency exchange.
2019-6-4 21:00 | |
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Authorities are investigating an Australian social media influencer‘s bank accounts after she defrauded her followers with fake cancer claims and used the money to trade cryptocurrency. Annabelle “Belle” Gibson has been systematically lying to her followers and using her company’s profits to trade cryptocurrencies, futures, and place sports bets, the Canberra Times reports.
2019-5-14 12:36 | |
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Michael Terpin, the Bitcoin investor who had $24 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from him in a SIM-swapping hack, has been awarded a payout three-times the size of his original loss. Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered New York-based Bitcoin Bandit Nicholas Truglia to pay Terpin $74.
2019-5-13 17:18 | |
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U. S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has charged two individuals for providing “shadow banking” services to crypto exchanges. According to a statement by Geoffrey S.
2019-5-2 23:54 | |
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The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged two people in connection with running an unlicensed money transfer business used to make deposits for cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-5-1 13:13 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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If you’re a creditor in Mt. Gox’s civil rehabilitation case, the defunct exchange may have automatically filed and approved a reimbursement claim for you — provided that your Mt.
2019-4-23 22:44 | |
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BtcTurk has temporarily suspended all crypto deposits and withdrawals after a massive cyber attack. Here's the latest.
The decentralized finance protocol Balancer suffered an exploit attack for nearly $900,000 in just a few days after a critical vulnerability was discovered. The Balancer team said a DNS attack was the source of an issue on its interface that…
In a concerning development, popular crypto exchange CoinEx is believed to have fallen victim to a suspected hack, resulting in significant losses from its Ethereum (ETH), TRON (TRX), and Polygon (MATIC) hot wallets.