{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_svy2wos3gohtvlzwivfq","title":"Fake Coinbase Texts Led to $900K Bitcoin Theft, US Seeks Seized Crypto","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/fake-coinbase-texts-led-to-900k-bitcoin-theft-us-seeks-seized-crypto-svy2wos3go","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_svy2wos3gohtvlzwivfq","seq":796296,"kind":"article","title":"Fake Coinbase Texts Led to $900K Bitcoin Theft, US Seeks Seized Crypto","url":"https://news.bitcoin.com/regulation-and-legal/fake-coinbase-texts-led-to-900k-bitcoin-theft-us-seeks-seized-crypto","summary":"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 […]","published":"2026-09-30T00:05:19Z","seen":"2026-09-30T00:54:43Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-news-bitcoin-com-c86bc4","name":"news.bitcoin.com","domain":"news.bitcoin.com"},"via":"kite-news-bitcoin-com-c86bc4","topics":["cryptocurrency","regulation & legal","coinbase","doj","fraud"],"authors":["Kevin Helms"],"entities":[{"id":"Q16972754","name":"Coinbase","type":"org"}],"story":"st_svy2wos3gohtvlzwivfq","category":"crime-law","category_p":0.7599999904632568,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.6700000166893005,"political":0.1899999976158142}]}