On Sept. 9, a ransomware attack took over the hospital’s computer systems, making them inoperable. A female patient scheduled for a lifesaving procedure had to be transferred to another hospital 19 miles away in Wuppertal. She died during the trip.
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Can Binance be blamed when hacked funds are laundered through it? One victim says yes (Photo: Pixabay/geralt)Hacked crypto exchange sues Binance for allegedly laundering the stolen funds
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Fisco claims that Binance “either intentionally or negligently failed to interrupt the money laundering process when it could have done so.”
Calling Binance the “‘go-to’ location for cybercriminals to convert purloined cryptocurrency to other cryptocurrency,” Fisco’s complaint alleges that the thieves who stole $63 million in bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and monacoin laundered approximately $9.4 million of it through Binance.
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Russia may not be the biggest user of cryptocurrency for everyday purchases—that's Ukraine—but it's the largest (Photo: Chainalysis)Revealed: The countries with the highest levels of everyday crypto use
Ukraine, Russia and Venezuela top the Chainalysis list—but major economies such as India and the U.K. narrowly miss a place in the top 10
Joining Ukraine in the top 10 were Russia, Venezuela, China, Kenya, the U.S., South Africa, Nigeria, Colombia, and Vietnam. Overall, the company said that its findings show “excitement around cryptocurrency as an investment and, especially in the developing world, as a means of value storage and medium of exchange.”
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Bitcoin trail breaks up al-Qaeda, Hamas terror-funding schemes
Agencies including the FBI, Homeland Security and IRS Criminal Investigations division worked with blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis to track bitcoin donations to terrorists
The operations seized more than $1 million in Bitcoin from both terror groups and the unlicensed money services business they worked with, the company said.
