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A California-based heart monitor maker is warning more than eight million people that hackers stole their personal and health information. iRhythm Holdings says unauthorized individuals accessed and downloaded data from certain third-party-hosted business applications between June 3rd and June 8th. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) breach portal now lists 8,179,772 people
A Pennsylvania lawyer is accused of stealing more than $156,000 from two clients, including a 76-year-old man whose bank account was left with just $26.21. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office says Andrew C. Neville, 40, of Pennsauken, New Jersey, faces felony charges including financial exploitation of an older adult or care-dependent person, identity theft,
Bank of America is paying $2 million to settle claims that it wrongly turned down customers who reported unauthorized debit card and ATM transactions. The class action lawsuit, Dennie et al. v. Bank of America, N.A., alleges the bank violated the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) by improperly denying those disputes and failing to properly
HYPE price held near $93 while Bitcoin slid on the $6.3B Binance hack, as Hyperliquid drew support from ICE’s US futures deal.
The biggest hack in crypto history drained $6.3B from Binance. TRM Labs blames North Korea, and Blockaid explains how one delegation kept a wallet open.
JPMorgan Chase, AMD, Coca-Cola, Applied Materials, Adobe, Dell Technologies and Sandisk have joined the list of companies blocking tokenized versions of their stock on the planned OKXICE venue, bringing the count to 33.
Bitcoin trades near $77,900 as BTC faces a fourth weekly loss, with key support at the 200-day EMA near $76,423.
Scammers posing as Wells Fargo's fraud department took more than $7,500 from an Orlando, Florida couple after getting them to read back text verification codes, with the money moved out through Cash App.
Binance is investigating reports of a potential security issue after large transfers of ETH and tokens moved from its hot wallets to an exploiter-labeled address.
Binance outflows look like a hack, CZ says, as Tether and Circle freeze $2.4B in stablecoins while Binance reports no confirmed user impact.
An unverified Binance hack rumor tied to $2.77B in outflows sank the crypto market, liquidating $600M in longs within an hour as BNB led losses.
A Dubai royal backs SAC’s $1.5B Bitcoin plan with Coinbase as manager, but the firm still hides how much BTC it owns or intends to buy.