Structural failure
Social Engineering
Crypto records sharing the "Social Engineering" structural failure pattern.
Records exhibiting this pattern
CFTC Action Over Alleged $14M Crypto Pool Fraud
A reported CFTC case alleged that a North Carolina man and his company used a commodity pool tied to crypto and futures trading to obtain about $14 million from about 60 people.
$14.0M affectedKartik Saini Sentenced in Tech-Support Fraud Case
A federal court sentenced Kartik Saini to more than six years in prison after prosecutors said he participated in a tech-support fraud scheme that targeted senior citizens in the United States.
Ukraine Put Seized $8.3M USDT Under ARMA Control
Ukrainian prosecutors said more than $8.3 million in USDT tied to an alleged hacking group was transferred to ARMA, described as the country’s first placement of seized crypto under state management.
$8.3M affectedPolymarket Wallet Theft After Frontend Script Injection
About $3.1 million in PUSD was taken from 11 user wallets after Polymarket said a compromised third-party vendor injected malicious code into parts of its frontend; full refunds were promised.
$3.1M affectedjaredfromsubway.eth Drain via Fake Route Approvals
A reported exploit of the Ethereum MEV bot jaredfromsubway.eth used fabricated trading routes, fake token infrastructure, and standing approvals to remove more than $7.5 million.
$7.5M affectedTexas Brothers Plead Guilty in $8M Crypto Kidnapping
Federal prosecutors said two Texas brothers traveled to Minnesota, held a family at gunpoint for more than eight hours, and coerced the transfer of over $8 million in cryptocurrency.
$8.0M affectedNancy Fake-Police Crypto Assault Followed Waltio Breach
A Nancy indictment linked an alleged fake-police assault on a crypto-holding couple to personal data reportedly obtained after Waltio’s January breach exposed balances and contact information.
$20000 affectedHumanity Protocol: $36M Social-Engineering Token Theft
Quantstamp attributed Humanity Protocol’s loss of $36 million in H tokens to a phishing email impersonating Bithumb, subsequent malware-based laptop compromise, and theft of MetaMask credentials and private keys.
$36.0M affectedDanbury Bitcoin Robbery Scheme Guilty Plea
Federal prosecutors said a 22-year-old Missouri man pleaded guilty in Hartford in connection with an attempted Bitcoin robbery and kidnapping in Danbury in August 2024, though key case details remain undisclosed.
$— affectedShanghai Sentencing in $29 Million Crypto Forex Case
Chinese authorities traced unusual transactions to a company alleged to have enabled illegal overseas transfers via crypto, and a Shanghai court later sentenced five people in the matter.
$29.0M affectedDMM Bitcoin Hack — May 2024
The Japanese exchange lost approximately $305M of BTC to a private-key compromise attributed by the FBI to North Korea's TraderTraitor (Lazarus). DMM covered customer balances and wound down operations in 2025.
$305.0M affected