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A large number of businesses and other major institutions operating in the U.S and Canada received threatening emails on the afternoon of December 13, 2018, initiating sweeps and evacuations of several buildings.

As a decentralised technology, digital currency is often accused of being used for illegal purposes such as money laundering and tax evasion. As per the National Police Agency of Japan (NPA), crypto exchanges submitted almost 6,000 reports of suspicious trading in the period from January to October.

The Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office issued a statement on November 26, 2018, disclosing that the local police detained 3 men suspected of crypto theft.

South Korean local police conducted a serious operation that led to five hackers being arrested and put behind bars on Thursday November 8, 2018 for illegally installing malicious cryptocurrency mining malware on over 6,000 active computers (PCs) with the aim of stealing cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and others. The Korean government together with the police and other authorities pay allegiance to protect people and their property.

After Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke realised in January 2018 that deadly hackers had cracked a very strong 40-character password and emptied their crypto wallet, they didn't run to the police or inform the tokens' issuer, IOTA, a Berlin-based tech group. They just purchased more coins.

A new deadly virus known as Dharma is seriously infecting computers (PCs) and servers by encrypting and locking files, which can only be successfully unlocked via a Bitcoin payment, responsible authorities warned on October 16, 2018.

In a struggle to dock and behedge an exodus from the nation, the government of Venezuela has made it very difficult to get passports with bolivars.

A senior French security official has earned himself a quick ticket to the Bastille after being arrested for purportedly selling "sensitive state secrets" on the Dark Web in exchange for Crypto.

As per The Indian Express, a Bitcoin scam mastermind, Amit Bhardwaj, hosted expensive parties and investor summits in Macau (a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong, previously under Portuguese control) and Dubai (one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates) only to trick and mislead his investors of their funds.