It is not just crypto tokens that have spectacular downfalls. So can crypto personalities. Sam Bankman-Fried founded FTX, one of the world’s largest exchanges for so-called cryptocurrencies, which collapsed last year owing billions of dollars. Now he has gone from being hailed as potentially the world’s first trillionaire to a lengthy term in prison. After… Read more »
A simple database flag enabled cryptocurrency magnate Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) to siphon billions of customer dollars into a lavish lifestyle that ultimately left failed exchange FTX over $12 billion ($US8 billion) in debt, a US court has heard as SBF’s trial nears its conclusion. Once the second largest cryptocurrency exchange with a valuation of $47 billion, the… Read more »
The board of ASX small cap IOUpay handed control to PricewaterhouseCoopers as voluntary administrators on Wednesday after a major fraud that siphoned off millions of dollars left the fintech unable to pay its bills. Shares in the Malaysia-focused fintech (ASX:IOU) have been suspended at $0.04 cents since the fraud was first uncovered in mid March.… Read more »
Biotech startup founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of four of 11 charges by a US Federal Court jury. Holmes, 37, was the high-profile CEO of Theranos, a supposedly revolutionary blood testing tech startup, which she dropped out of Stanford University, aged 19, to launch in 2003. The company’s ambitions ground to a halt… Read more »
A $3.6 million funds transfer by Cann Group to an overseas contractor building the medicinal cannabis company’s Mildura factory has been stolen in what’s been described as a “complex and sophisticated cyber fraud” by an unknown hacker. The company (ASX: CAN) reported the breach to the market this morning, saying it “experienced a cyber security… Read more »
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