Author: Jody McDonald

Coinbase has confirmed in a regulatory filing that almost 70,000 customers have had sensitive data stolen in a huge data breach involving the bribery of its overseas customer support staff. The filing, which was made with the US state of Maine’s Attorney General’s Office, showed that 69,461 Coinbase customers had their data leaked — 217

A former National Australia Bank (NAB) employee has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for the theft of almost AUD$500,000 from bank customers — a crime prompted by him losing most of his life savings to a cryptocurrency scam. On November 14, 2021, NAB employee Dennis Nguyen realised he’d lost the majority of his savings

A group of 20 US Democrat senators have introduced a bill that seeks to ban senior government officials and their families from launching and promoting their own cryptocurrencies.  The ‘End Crypto Corruption Act of 2025’ bill was introduced to the Senate on May 7 as part of an effort from the Democrats to fight what

Ethereum’s developers yesterday activated the Pectra upgrade, the network’s most significant upgrade since 2022’s Merge which saw the network transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.  Eleven new Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) were implemented through Pectra — the largest number of any single Ethereum upgrade — with promises to level-up account abstraction…

The Australian Government’s recent move to rule out crypto-specific tax laws paves the way for the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to more actively enforce crypto tax obligations, according to Shane Brunette, the CEO of Crypto Tax Calculator.  His comments to Crypto News Australia come in the wake of the Australian Government’s release of the ‘Board