Chris Larsen, executive chairman and co-founder of Ripple, said on Jan. 31 that several of his personal XRP accounts had been hacked. He wrote in a post on X: “Yesterday, there was unauthorized access to a few of my personal XRP accounts (not Ripple) – we were quickly able to catch the problem and notify …
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U.K. authorities seized 61,000 BTC valued at approximately £1.4 billion (or $1.78 billion) related to an investment fraud that operated in China, the Financial Times reported. The mastermind behind the fraud, Zhimin Qian, converted part of the profits from a £5 billion investment scam operated in China between 2014 and 2017 into the top cryptocurrency …
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong has initiated an investigation into Worldcoin over data privacy concerns related to its collection of biometric data, according to a Jan. 31 press release. The PCPD said it executed court warrants to enter six Worldcoin premises on Jan. 31 in Yau Ma …
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In a significant development in the FTX bankruptcy saga, the company has decided it will not revive the exchange and will instead liquidate its assets to fully compensate customers affected by its collapse. The decision was announced by FTX’s attorney, Andy Dietderich, during the exchange’s latest bankruptcy hearing on Jan. 31. The exchange’s native token …
