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FinCEN and Greek police have revealed new details about the case of $4 billion money laundering via BTC-e exchange. BTC-e appeared to be connected with 300,000 BTC stolen from Mt. Gox.

Concerted hacking attacks on several projects holding ICOs have caused losses of over $32 million in Ethereum (ETH).

Soon after the launch of its Initial Coin Offering (ICO), CoinDash, a startup that supposed to create a social trading platform for crypto-markets, has announced that it was attacked by hackers and lost over $7 million in Ether.

At the trial of the founder of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, Mark Karpelès plead not guilty and filed a counterclaim.

Last months the ransomware software Wanna Cry attacked 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries worldwide and a huge fuss was made of the capability of hackers to use Bitcoin in illegal actions. Now, a new ransomware comes on stage.

Bitcoin was born through an online forum. Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s founder, first published its white paper in late 2008 on the cypherpunk mailing list, which was used by cryptographers from around the globe beginning in the 1990s. Bitcoin’s initial growth was also largely driven by various online hacker forums.

Walt Disney studio seems to be being blackmailed by hackers, who are claiming to have access to Disney movies.

On April 18, 2017, Poloniex published an announcement that it is going to delist 17 altcoins. However, there are signs that someone knew about Poloniex’s decision to remove some altcoins before the official announcement on Twitter.

Bitfinex has announced that it has finally redeemed 100% of all issued and outstanding BFX tokens.