Police News

The Wall Street Market, the world’s second largest dark web market, was shut down with six figures in crypto seized by police.

Details are still sketchy after Bithumb lost $18 million due to a hack.

Founders of Canadian-based Vanbex reportedly used the $22 million raised in an ICO for personal benefit instead of building promised products.

7,096 cases of suspected money laundering tied to crypto were reported to Japanese police in 2018.

A group of criminals disguised as the police attacked a Bitcoin trader in his home in the Netherlands.

Turkish police detained 24 people involved in hacking a crypto firm, using an online multiplayer game to communicate.

New Zealand police reported that the Cryptopia exchange is ready to resume trading, but the platform remains offline.

Police in New Taipei, Taiwan, arrested fifteen suspects for allegedly running a cryptocurrency scam that raked in millions of dollars.

Following international police collaboration, a 36-year-old individual suspected of the theft of over $11 million in IOTA has been arrested.

A Chinese user of the cryptocurrency exchange ZB.com claimed that the exchange reported him to the police.

Indian police have arrested an associate of a group accused of a $71.6 million crypto scam.

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received nearly three times more law enforcement inquiries in 2018 than in 2017.

A Taiwanese man has been arrested on suspicions of stealing electricity worth over $3 million to mine Bitcoin and Ethereum worth around $14.5 million.

There has been a significant increase in the reports of suspected illegal use of cryptocurrencies in Japan.

Bulgarian Gendarmerie forces and specialized prosecutors have arrested three hackers allegedly involved in stealing $5 million in crypto.