The co-founder of Ledger - David Balland’s severed finger, a $10 million ransom, and a 48-hour manhunt. This isn’t a Netflix thriller - it’s a brutal reminder that the lines between wealth and survival can be dangerous in crypto.
The ultimate scammer toolkit turned against its masters. $10M+ vanished as malware-infused updates drained the wallets of those who made rugging retail an art form. Dogwiftools proved there's always a bigger predator.
When you build leveraged experiments on top of working products, reality strikes. THORChain now faces $200M in frozen funds, a native token in free fall, and 90 days to choose between controlled demolition or total collapse.
When your hot wallets become dozens of points of failure, $73.54M makes an expensive lesson in access control. From Ethereum to Solana, CEX Phemex just demonstrated how to turn multi-chain support into a masterclass in multi-chain mayhem.
Inauguration weekend turned crypto into a political battleground as President-elect Trump's $TRUMP and First Lady's $MELANIA meme tokens ignited, nuked, then reignited the markets. Some traders got so rekt they started missing Gary Gensler.
Some reflections are better left unseen. The Idols NFT found out the hard way - never trust a mirror. A flaw in their reward system let an attacker drain 97 stETH ($324k) by setting sender and receiver to the same address.
When your private keys become the white whale, who's really hunting whom? Moby Trade loses roughly $1 million to a compromised key, while white hats rescue $1.47M from the depths. Some lessons of the sea only need to be learned once.
Hardcoded lies, collapsing pegs, and a founder possibly playing both sides. Usual Money's USD0++ implosion - a masterclass in DeFi deception. When 60 percent yields turn into 87 cent redemptions, you're not the user - you're the product.
First significant hack of 2025. Orange Finance got squeezed for $843.5k after their 'multi-sig' turned out to be uni-sig. Their contract is no longer Orange, their security was never golden. Another private key leaks, another protocol rots.
Anybody need a math tutor? Because SolvBTC’s numbers might be in need of a recheck. The battle over Bitcoin reserves might be a little more complicated than it seems. Offline promises and double-counted coins could point to some serious discrepancies… but who's really keeping track?
How Alpha Finance dodged $32 million in debt with two rebrands while Iron Bank holds users hostage. Their hacker's recent 500 ETH cash-out is just another twist in this crypto vanishing act. Is rebranding becoming the gentleman's rug pull?
North Korean hackers don't take holidays. While Hyperliquid guards $2 billion with just 4 validators, DPRK tests their defenses. Security experts warn - 3 signatures is all it takes. The team's response couldn’t be more Bah humbug.