Cryptohack Roundup: 'Bitcoin Queen' Sentenced in Fraud Case

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Every week, Information Security Media Group rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, "Bitcoin Queen" sentenced, as was Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez, Balancer hack post-mortem, Coinbase's 21 million euro fine, mistrial in $25 Million Ethereum exploit case. Spanish authorities detained a crypto influencer and accused the United States of a crypto heist.

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Zhimin Qian, a 47-year-old Chinese national known as the "Bitcoin Queen," received a prison sentence of 11 years and eight months for laundering proceeds from a 5.5 billion-pound cryptocurrency fraud. Qian masterminded a massive investment scam in China between 2014 and 2017, defrauding more than 128,000 investors of around 40 billion yuan by promising returns of up to 300 ...