Scammers and hackers stole $482.6 million in crypto during the first quarter of 2026, according to security firm Hacken. That was a 21% increase over Q4 2025’s $399 million. In its Q1 2026 Security and Compliance Report, Hacken noted that phishing and social engineering scams dominated losses, accounting for $306 million — more than 63% of the total — with a single $282 million hardware wallet scam in January accounting for more than half the quarter’s losses. There were 44 incidents recorded. Smart contract vulnerabilities saw the biggest gain, reaching $86.2 million over 28 exploits. That’s up 213% compared to Q1 2025. Access control failures, including compromised keys and cloud…
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Wallets offline, Bitcoin.com warns of scams
The leading digital wallet provider said a data center fire had made accounts inaccessible, and warned customers to be wary of phishing scammers posing as customer support
Telling customers to "rest assured that funds are secure and we’re working to restore access as soon as possible, the company added a warning: “Whilst we work to resolve this access issue please remain vigilant. @AskBlockchain is our ONLY Support Account. DO NOT accept help or assistance from any other account, this includes fake forms & website links.”
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Brash airline CEO dubs Bitcoin a ‘Ponzi scheme’ after his image is used in crypto scam ads
Telling people to avoid crypto ‘like the plague,’ outspoken Irishman Michael O’Leary said: ‘I have never, and would never, invest one cent in Bitcoin’
A photograph of the sweary CEO has been doing the rounds in advertisements featured on an array of popular websites. The bogus campaign claims he told viewers on a popular late-night television show that he was making “tens of thousands of euro a day” thanks to an investment scheme called Bitcoin Lifestyle.
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Ignore this Bitcoin porn scam
Here’s what to do if you get a suspicious email
We’re posting the full-text of a scam email so that if you google it, you can read this sentence: Ignore this Bitcoin scam. We got this from a friend of ours recently. It’s just a riff on a common scam. Here’s the text: You can visit the police station but nobody will solve your problem. I dont live in your country. So they can not trace my location even for 4 weeks. Your device is infected by our virus. I turned on your webcam, at the moment you went to the porn-site. Now I have the record of you, caressing yourself. Having VNC session we downloaded your contactlist so if…
