Trezor says another approximately 67,000 U.S. customers had their personal information exposed in the breach at shipping provider ShipMonk, pushing the known number of affected customers from 13,689 to about 80,700. The newly identified records belong to customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses […]
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted OpenReserve preliminary conditional approval to establish a full-service national bank in Salt Lake City, moving the crypto-native startup closer to operating inside the U.S. banking system. The OCC decision, dated September 2, allows OpenReserve to proceed with plans for an insured national bank offering traditional […]
Bitcoin briefly climbed to $82,108 early Friday, extending a broad crypto rally that lifted Ether above $2,500 and sent XRP, Solana and other major tokens higher. BTC later traded near $81,000, up roughly 4.5% over 24 hours. XRP gained more than 6% during the advance, while Ether and Solana rose around 4% to 5%. Fed […]
ProCap Financial sold approximately 50 Bitcoin to fund a new round of share repurchases, retiring more than 2% of its common stock while the shares traded at roughly a 40% discount to net asset value. The company said in its September 3 announcement that the latest transaction brings total repurchases since the program began to […]
Australian crypto firms relying on temporary regulatory relief have until September 30 to take required licensing steps or risk breaching financial-services law from the following day, with potential penalties reaching 10% of annual turnover. The deadline applies to businesses covered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s sector-wide no-action position that provide digital-asset products or […]
Standard Chartered has launched Bitcoin and Ether spot trading for institutional clients in the UAE through its Dubai International Financial Centre entity, becoming the first global systemically important bank to offer deliverable crypto spot trading in the country. Eligible clients can trade BTC/USD and ETH/USD through the bank’s electronic trading channels, using the same types […]
U.S. and European authorities have disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that spent more than two decades infecting computers and, in recent years, redirecting cryptocurrency payments to attacker-controlled wallets. The coordinated action on August 31 involved the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and Defense Criminal Investigative Service alongside authorities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. The Justice […]
