ChainCatcher news, according to Xinhua News Agency, the Chongqing Public Security Bureau's Liangjiang New Area Branch successfully solved a virtual currency theft case involving approximately 400,000 yuan, arresting three criminal suspects. The case began at the end of June 2024 when the Tian Gong Dian Police Station of the Liangjiang New Area Branch received a report from a technology company in the jurisdiction, stating that over 2.6 million BLAST tokens (a type of virtual currency) had been stolen from the company's account. The police quickly identified and arrested the suspects Yang, Wu, and Sheng by analyzing the transaction paths and the flow of funds.Upon investigation, it was found that all three suspects were former employees of the technology company. They took advantage of their positions to implant malicious code into the company's computers, stealing the company's virtual wallet address and private key passwords. On the evening of June 26, after the company's virtual wallet received BLAST tokens distributed by the game officials, the suspects immediately transferred the tokens to a pre-prepared wallet, and then proceeded to cash out and divide the spoils. Currently, the three suspects have been lawfully approved for arrest by the procuratorial authorities on suspicion of theft, and the case is under further investigation.

ChainCatcher news, Yixing has cracked a case of theft of virtual currency, where the perpetrator illegally obtained access to another person's virtual currency wallet with the intent to possess it unlawfully. The prosecuting attorney discovered that in order to secretly gain access to others' virtual wallets, the defendant Wang conspired with others to create a website that appeared to be a blockchain project to obtain the management rights of the victim Ms. Pan's wallet. According to statistics, Wang transferred 130,000 virtual currencies from Ms. Pan's account to cash out into his own bank card, causing Ms. Pan an economic loss of over 900,000 yuan. Recently, the Yixing City Prosecutor's Office filed a public prosecution, and the court sentenced the defendant Wang to eleven years in prison for theft and imposed a corresponding fine.

ChainCatcher news, the People's Procuratorate of Xuhui District, Shanghai announced through its official public account that local police have cracked a case involving the illegal theft of virtual currency using backdoor programs. According to informed sources, during the investigation, Huobi HTX actively cooperated with Shanghai Public Security to gather evidence, using on-chain data to identify the criminals and assist the police in swiftly solving the case.In this case, the victim, Mr. Ou, had virtual currency worth millions of RMB stolen from a wallet software. Investigations revealed that four wallet developers had implanted backdoor programs in the wallet software used by Mr. Ou to obtain user private keys, mnemonic phrases, and other information, with one person stealing Mr. Ou's virtual currency.Ultimately, the Xuhui District People's Court sentenced the four defendants to fixed-term imprisonment and imposed fines for the crime of illegally obtaining data from computer information systems. The successful resolution of this case and the court's ruling indicate that the act of stealing others' virtual currency constitutes a crime, and the state not only protects virtual currency assets but also combats crimes that infringe upon virtual currency.

ChainCatcher message, the blockchain security agency Hacken tweeted that of the 23 million dollars stolen from the Alphapo hot wallet, 11 million dollars were bridged to BTC via the Avalanche Bridge, while the remaining funds are still at the attacker addresses starting with "0x040a" and "TJF7md".The stolen assets include: 100.2 million FTN, 6 million USDT, 2500 ETH, 108,000 USDC, 118 million TRX, 430,000 TFL, and 1700 DAI.

ChainCatcher news, according to CBC, two 17-year-old boys from Hamilton, Canada, were arrested and charged for stealing $4.2 million in cryptocurrency. The two defendants, using the aliases Felon and Gaze, impersonated Coinbase support to take over the victims' trading accounts, stealing $4.2 million worth of BTC and ETH.According to the police, some of the money was used to purchase social media usernames, and these two teenagers possessed over $13.4 million in cryptocurrency. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to foreign media reports, two men from Massachusetts, USA, used SIM card "swapping" vulnerabilities and other hacking techniques to steal approximately $330,000 in cryptocurrency, and they also hacked into many victims' social media accounts. For these crimes, they were sentenced to two years and one day, and two years and seven days in prison, respectively.It is reported that SIM swapping is a technique used by criminals to take control of the victim's phone number and access their online accounts. Criminals deceive mobile operators into reallocating the victim's phone number to a SIM card controlled by cybercriminals. (source link)