Crypto Hacks and Security, Page 4 of 19
Crypto Exchange Protection Funds Recalculated: What Really Covers Your Balance After the Bitget Hack
The $351.6 million attack on Bitget would eat up three quarters of the exchange's in-house protection fund. We retrieved the protection promises of several exchanges ourselves and measured them against deposit insurance and MiCA liability.
23 days ago
Magic Eden and Limit Break exploit: 530 WETH and thousands of NFTs drained, how to revoke your approvals
A bug in Limit Break's Payment Processor, the protocol behind Magic Eden's former Ethereum marketplace, has been draining NFTs and WETH since Thursday. Our blockchain analysis shows 911 affected wallets. What happened, why hardware wallets do not protect you and which two approvals to revoke now.
23 days ago
BaFin Warning: What Happens When You Enter Your Data on an AI Crypto Platform
On September 23, 2026 BaFin warned about 39 near-identical websites presenting themselves as AI-powered crypto trading platforms. On its findings these pages take no money but pass the data left in their contact form on to unauthorized trading platforms.
23 days ago
Fetch.ai Bridge Exploit: What FET, AGIX and NTX Holders Must Check Now
A single call drained the FET liquidity of the SingularityNET bridge on September 19, and hundreds of millions of unbacked tokens were minted afterwards. What is affected, what Fetch.ai has halted, and what to check in your wallet, at your exchange and on tax.
25 days ago
Crypto Phishing After a Data Breach: The Warning Signs in a Fake Exchange Email
After every major data breach, the number of phishing emails sent in the name of crypto exchanges and wallet manufacturers rises. This article shows you how to recognise such a message, which data a reputable provider never requests by email, and what to do in the first hour after a click.
28 days ago
North Korean Hackers Drain 7,000 Crypto Wallets: What to Check on Job Offers and Coding Tests
Seven agencies, among them Germany's BND and BfV, warn about the WaterPlum group: 30,000 infected machines, more than 7,000 drained wallets. The bait is a job offer, the trap a coding test.
29 days ago
Crypto investment fraud: when the tax office taxes phantom gains and what to check now
Between September 11 and 16, 2026, BaFin published thirteen consumer notices, seven of them on crypto-assets. Anyone who has paid into such a platform risks not only the loss but, in some circumstances, a tax demand on gains that never existed.
29 days ago
$3.5 Million Against $550,000 of Collateral: How to Check Which Tokens Your DeFi Lending Market Accepts
One manipulated price was enough to borrow 3.5 million US dollars from the Nostra Finance money market on Starknet — backed by a token worth half a million dollars. Four figures from the documentation show you whether your own lending market has the same gap.
30 days ago
