⚠️NEW: TON Domains are broken

TON domains (such as cold.ton for example) are currently broken, showing issues in both displaying and assigning.

There is no current estimate for when this may be fixed.

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⚠️JUST IN: McDonald’s has allegedly been hit by a data breach, with a cybercrime forum seller claiming to have stolen an internal employee dataset from an Azure tenant.

The seller claims the dataset contains more than 1.7 million records, with an 8,000-record sample reportedly leaked. The authenticity and full scope of the alleged breach remain unverified.

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⚠️News: Bitcoin surges to almost $70k

Hitting a high of $69,000, bitcoin breaks out of many weeks of sideways movement.

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⚠️JUST IN: ZachXBT is launching a site to assist victims

ZachXBT confirmed the service will not support victims from Canada, the UK, India, and several other countries due to law enforcement rarely making arrests in these cases.

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⚠️JUST IN: Short Telegram anonymous number sells for $1.07M

The anonymous Telegram number 888 8 666 was just sold for 666,666 Gram (~$1.07M).

This is now the most expensive number ever sold on the platform.

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⚠️JUST IN: French threat actors reportedly filmed themselves cashing out $23M from a major social engineering theft.

The group allegedly converted the stolen BTC into XMR through Wagyu, documenting the process on video.

Wagyu’s founder later shared the footage publicly and appeared to celebrate the swap, despite the funds reportedly being tied to the theft.

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⚠️JUST IN: 15 victims have reportedly lost a combined $9.4M to an address-poisoning attacker.

The victims allegedly copied lookalike wallet addresses after receiving $1 transactions from the attacker, who targeted wallets moving large sums.

By sending tiny transactions and exploiting address-copying habits, the attacker reportedly stole over $9M.

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⚠️JUST IN: A single threat actor has reportedly stolen over $2M through a fake Ledger website.

The attacker allegedly used Google ads to push the fraudulent Ledger site to the top of search results, making it appear legitimate to victims.

Believing they were on the official website, victims entered their seed phrases, allowing the attacker to drain their wallets.

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🐸NEW: Chinese collector accidentally sold a Plush Pepe for $2

A Chinese collector accepted a buy offer on Plush Pepe #583 for 125 Stars, roughly $2. Current floor value: ~$7,500.

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⚠️JUST IN: Over $210M has been stolen through various crypto attacks in August

According to CertiK, social engineering ranked as the second-largest source of crypto thefts, with over $50M stolen through these attacks this month alone.

Crypto protocol exploits accounted for more than $130M in losses.

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⚠️JUST IN: A victim lost $117K to a fake Cupid impersonator

The victim, who previously owned @pure, was social engineered by an impersonator posing as Cupid MM, resulting in the theft of @pure and an additional $37K.

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⚠️New: Threat actor Brandon Hiser was reportedly arrested after allegedly swatting and extorting a 12-year-old girl more than 20 times.

According to court documents, Hiser allegedly extorted the victim for over 3 years and forced her to comply with his demands.

He also allegedly swatted her 20+ times and firebombed her brother’s car after she refused to comply.

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⚠️JUST IN: Liquid Network exploited for 4,000 BTC ($320M)

The attackers left a message saying “we are whitehats. contact us on chain” and are requesting a 20% bounty in exchange for returning the stolen funds.

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⚠️UPDATE: The hackers have refunded 3400 BTC ($268M) and kept 600 BTC ($47M) as part of a whitehat deal

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⚠️UPDATE #2: Protocol says there was no whitehat deal with the hackers who returned 3.4K BTC, and is demanding the remaining 600 BTC back 😭

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⚠️News: Telegram username @fade was reportedly sold for $400K after a coinflip.

Two known figures, @frost and @purple, agreed to settle the handle through a coinflip, with the winner securing the username for $400K.

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⚠️NEWS: Blockstream Rejects Hacker Bounty Following $340M Liquid Exploit

Hackers drained nearly 4,000 BTC (around $320M) from Blockstream’s Liquid Network before returning approximately 3,400 BTC.

Roughly 598.5 BTC (about $47M) is still in the attackers’ possession, as they reportedly seek a bounty in exchange for the remaining funds.

Blockstream has not publicly agreed to the proposed payment, while investigations into the exploit and those responsible remain ongoing.

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⚠️News: Chainflip exploited for over $735K

A bug automatically refunded users twice the amount they attempted to swap, even when the swap failed due to insufficient funds.

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