Fidelity will pay California $500,000 for blocking crypto withdrawals for two and a half years.
A Ledger device can pass Genuine Check and still be unsafe to use if someone has added hardware that watches the recovery phrase during setup.
Ledger has confirmed that one device linked to its investigation into lost-funds reports contained an unauthorized hardware implant, giving the case a verified physical-security finding.
Ledger is investigating reports of lost funds from users in Southeast Asia who bought devices through a reseller it identified as CryptoBillis. The company has asked the reseller to pause Ledger sales and shipments while its review continues.
Europol says quantum computing could eventually turn exposed wallet keys into a route for theft, leaving crypto networks years to prepare for a security migration.
A U.S. payments company says Tether froze $2.76 million in USDT used for treasury operations. Its lawsuit asks how far an issuer’s control over stablecoins can reach.
About 54 million XRP, valued near $83 million, had left the five original Bitget attacker accounts by September 26, shifting the recovery effort toward custodial gateways.
What began as a $170 million on-chain alert has become a confirmed $351.6 million Bitget breach, with the exchange now examining a possible North Korea connection.
More than $170 million in crypto reportedly moved from Bitget-linked wallets to one unlabelled address before being swapped into ETH, raising fresh questions about a possible security breach at the exchange.
US prosecutors are reportedly examining whether Binance knowingly allowed prohibited Iran-linked trading, putting the exchange’s post-2023 compliance overhaul under fresh scrutiny.
An incident first estimated near $2 million has expanded beyond Fetch.ai and NuNet, shifting attention from the stolen value to the permissions the attacker obtained.
The US government plans to email roughly 300,000 addresses tied to BTC-e accounts with positive balances in 2017. Receiving a notice, however, will not establish a right to repayment.



