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A breach of Denmark's central population registry, disclosed weeks after the country launched its AltID wallet, has reopened questions over how centralised data stores underpin Europe's digital identity and tax-reporting ambitions for crypto.
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT says he deployed roughly $3.5 million of his own funds to infiltrate a Chinese money-laundering network suspected of serving North Korea's Lazarus group, helping identify addresses tied to the $1.5 billion Bybit theft.
Near Intents says all funds stolen in a cross-chain exploit have been returned, less than two days after its CEO publicly identified the attacker and set a deadline for restitution.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has published evidence pointing to Chinese intermediaries moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack through THORChain on behalf of suspected North Korean attackers, while the protocol has declined Bitget's request to block flagged addresses.
Bitget has frozen withdrawals after confirming a $351.6 million theft from its hot and warm wallets, with CEO Gracy Chen citing preliminary evidence linking the attack to a North Korean hacking group.
South Korean wallet maker D'CENT says 6,678 accounts were drained of 11.75 million XRP between September 15 and 20, with stolen funds routed through THORChain, NEAR Intents and Binance.
Security researchers have parked 52.37 BTC seized from the July Coldcard firmware exploit into a newly formed Wyoming statutory trust, part of an effort to return stolen funds to holders whose wallets were drained by a predictable seed-generation flaw.
French exchange Paymium has told customers their personal data was exposed after a breach at email provider Brevo, the same incident that triggered a phishing campaign against Trezor users.
A group calling itself "iamnotavillain" claims to have obtained data on 680 Revolut customers by hijacking the certified email account of an Italian prefecture, demanding 6,000 XMR in ransom. Revolut denies any system breach.
Hackers withdrew $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid but returned about $270 million after claiming to have acted as “white hats”.
Hackers have published stolen data belonging to the City of Berlin on the darknet after a bitcoin ransom deadline passed without payment.