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Caretaker Drains $50,000 From Bedridden Elderly Woman's Account, Caught

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An 82-year-old woman’s caretaker was allegedly caught siphoning $50,000 from her accounts over many months to fund repeated bingo sessions at nearby machines. The elderly woman had hired a 42-year-old woman, Sinora John, to take care of her daily needs. She was bedridden after suffering a broken femur and other fractures in April 2025, according to a report from the Post Guam. Also Read: Central Banks Buy $47 Billion Worth of Gold in 3 Months Caretaker Steals $50,000 From Elderly Woman’s Debit Cards Source: Getty Images The caretaker formed a close bond with the victim, which allowed her to gain access to her debit cards. Sinora made repeated unauthorized ATM transactions and withdrew money almost every day, sometimes even reaching $900 per day. The victim uncovered the activity after retrieving mail for the first time in over a year. Upon confrontation, the caretaker admitted to stealing the money and apologized to the 82-year-old victim. The caretaker then proposed to repa...

YZi Labs-backed BounceBit Chain shuts down after $3M exploit

The YZi-backed bitcoin restaking firm BounceBit announced today that it is shutting down its blockchain after hackers exploited an authorization vulnerability and stole over $3.1 million of its BB token.  BounceBit claims that between August 19 and August 20, attackers were able to move 286 million BB tokens out of nine of BounceBit Chain’s wallets without authorization.  Evmos stack caused exploit An authorization flaw in the vesting and lockup account module hosted by Evmos, and utilized by BounceBit Chain, seemingly led to the exploit.  BounceBit says the attacker sent an estimated 254 million BB tokens to one “major” crypto exchange, almost 10 million BB tokens to another exchange, and 18.5 million BB tokens remain sitting in a consolidated address. We have identified an issue affecting BounceBit Chain and have paused nodes out of caution while we deploy a fix. BB transactions are temporarily unavailable. This is limited to the chain ...