{"id":664386,"date":"2026-09-30T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=851912"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:05:19","slug":"fake-coinbase-texts-led-to-900k-bitcoin-theft-us-seeks-seized-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/fake-coinbase-texts-led-to-900k-bitcoin-theft-us-seeks-seized-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Coinbase Texts Led to $900K Bitcoin Theft, US Seeks Seized Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/coinbase-4-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Coinbase\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Fraudulent texts posing as Coinbase allegedly led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoin from two wallets held within one account. The bitcoin was worth approximately $900,000 at the time of the theft. Federal prosecutors now seek to forfeit cryptocurrency traced to part of it. Fake Coinbase Texts Exposed Two Wallets in One Account A beneficiary [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudulent texts posing as Coinbase allegedly led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoin from two wallets held within one account. The bitcoin was worth approximately $900,000 at the time of the theft. Federal prosecutors now seek to forfeit cryptocurrency traced to part of it. Fake Coinbase Texts Exposed Two Wallets in One Account A beneficiary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-664386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}