⚠ JUST IN: Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams denies that he rugpulled his memecoin and claims he made no profit.

Eric Adams denies any involvement in moving funds or profiting from the NYC Token, saying his role was solely promoting the coin. He also blamed market volatility for the losses, despite the developer wallet earning $3.4M in profit.

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⚠ JUST IN: Donald Trump has confirmed a polymarket insider tied to Venezula bets has been arrested after making $600k+

Several wallets linked to insiders placed bets on the Venezuelan president being removed from office just hours before his arrest. The insiders were arrested and taken into custody after profiting $634k from their bets.

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⚠ JUST IN: A crypto whale lost $509k in USDT after copying and pasting the wrong address.

The whale had previously moved over $1M to an address ending in D3E6F. After returning roughly 30 days later, they copied a poisoned look-alike from their transaction history ending in F3E6F, which closely mimicked the original and led to the funds being sent to the attacker.

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⚠ BREAKING: Per ZachXBT, on January 10, 2026, a victim lost over $282M in LTC and BTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam.

Following the theft, the stolen LTC and BTC were funneled into Monero through multiple instant exchanges, likely fueling last week’s surge in XMR price.

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⚠ JUST IN: BitcoinVN froze a suspicious transaction linked to the $282M heist

Crypto recovery experts traced the wallet compromised from Trezor support impersonation and alerted the instant swap exchange BitcoinVN, freezing over $1M in associated funds. They are currently attempting to reach the original owner to return the funds.

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⚠ JUST IN: A crypto whale lost $6.7M ETH after a private key leak.

The stolen funds were laundered through privacy tools, with 1,899 ETH (~$6.2M) bridged to Bitcoin and sent to the Wasabi mixer, and the remaining 159 ETH (~$520k) deposited into Tornado Cash.

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⚠ JUST IN: BTCC Exchange is locking user accounts and wiping funds after users make profits.

Multiple users report that BTCC Exchange is locking accounts after users make profits, with one inactive trading account holding over $500k cleared without explanation, and over $2M withheld as the platform actively ignores users while pushing promotions to attract new ones.

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⚠ JUST IN: Makina Finance has suffered an exploit resulting in a loss of ~$4.13M.

An attacker drained 1,299 ETH (~$4.13M) from Makina Finance by exploiting its USD/USDC pool on Ethereum. The stolen funds were captured by an MEV builder and are currently sitting in two wallets holding ~$3.3M and ~$880K.

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