Victims lose $4.4B to cryptocurrency crime in first 9 months of 2019

It’s looking like a bumper year so far for cryptocurrency criminals. According to the latest CipherTrace report, losses from digital crime, in which cryptocurrency was the main haul, reached $4.4 billion over the first nine months of the year. It’s not even the end of the year yet, and this figure is already 150 percent up on the total money lost to cryptocurrency-related crime over the whole of 2018. Last year, just $1.7 billion was lost to digital currency crime. “The 150% increase in crypto theft and fraud reflects how criminals are adapting for bigger and better scores,” Dave Jevans…

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