Over the past five years, the Phorpiex botnet has managed to hijack approximately 3,000 cryptocurrency transactions, stealing at least hundreds of thousands of dollars
Coinbase last week sent out notification letters to thousands of users to inform them that funds were stolen from their accounts during an attack earlier this year.
A Rockport, Massachusetts, man has pleaded guilty over his role in a scheme targeting people who had high-value social media accounts or who were believed to have large amounts of cryptocurrency.