Local police department gets $400K in state funding for violent crime reduction
State leaders have given local police thousands in grant funding to help address violent crimes.
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The Dayton Police Department was awarded $400,000 as part of the state's latest round of the Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Grant Program.
The City of Dayton has announced plans to implement a violence interruption program targeting crime hot spots.
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'We're looking at areas of the North Main area and also some areas over in Westwood. Those are two primary areas,' Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims previously told News Center 7.
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All he heard back was, 'all transactions confirmed on the blockchain are final.' Then, in late May, after he saw the news of the breach, he reached back out to Coinbase again. He said this time, a Coinbase customer service representative told him, 'more than a million accounts have possibly been affected going back to November 1 of 2024.' FK said the same support agent told him to 'be patient, that it might take a while for the company to alert all of the people possibly involved.' In the meantime, his crypto holdings would be worth nearly $625,000 today. A Coinbase spokesperson wrote to me in an email that 'all impacted customers have already received an email from no-reply@ all notifications went out at 7:20 a.m. ET on 5/15 to affected customers.' When I asked for further clarification and explained that none of the victims I spoke with received emails from Coinbase on May 15, he offered to escalate their cases to the support teams. Then he added, 'But important to note we will reimburse anyone who sent their funds to the attacker as a result of this incident. If a customer was not part of this incident and was socially engineered to send funds to a scammer, that would not fall into the refund.' On June 3, both DR and FK received notice that Coinbase will not reimburse them because their personal information 'was not exposed in the recent incident.' Neither victim understands how the scammers could have accessed their personal information without insider access. They followed security protocol. They didn't share private keys. But hackers still emptied their wallets. 'The hackers sucked the funds out of my wallet without my consent to Roobet, a crypto gambling site in Curaçao,' FK explained. 'I did not initiate that. They did. Because I never shared my private key or seed phrase with them. They had backdoor access to my actual Coinbase Wallet.' But here's something I just learned: Every transaction you make on public blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum is completely transparent, and anyone can look it up. If someone gains access to your wallet address, they can see what you've sent and received, when those transactions happened, and which platforms or smart contracts you've interacted with. They can't always see exact dollar amounts or what you 'bought' in the traditional sense — but they can trace your balance and behavior. In crypto, your wallet address is like your phone number, bank routing number, and purchase history — all rolled into one. And if it's ever linked to your real identity, your entire transaction history becomes searchable. DR and FK still maintain the only way anyone could have gotten their wallet addresses is through a Coinbase breach, but most people investing in crypto right now have no idea how exposed they really are. All of this comes at the same time the current administration is easing restrictions on cryptocurrency trading in the United States. 'This is their chance to do the right thing in a very public way,' DR said. 'It's like crisis communications 101. I've heard that they want people to sign NDA's and drop any future legal action in order to get reimbursed. I would do that in a heartbeat,' he added. FK agreed. 'That's all I want, for Coinbase to do the right thing.' 'Coinbase should have sounded the alarm immediately,' cybersecurity expert Richard Blech told me over the phone. He said other major crypto exchanges, like Binance and Kraken, faced the same kind of social-engineering attacks but blocked them before hackers could steal any customer data. 'That's the difference a real zero-trust system makes,' Blech said. 'In a setup like that, this kind of breach either doesn't happen — or it gets shut down fast.' He called Coinbase's failure a collapse of digital architecture. 'This wasn't just a breach,' he added. 'It was a betrayal of trust. And in crypto, trust is the product. Lose that, and you lose everything.' Everyone's asking the same questions now: Why didn't Coinbase send out a warning months ago? 'The only emails I have from them are promotions,' FK said. Why didn't they take out full-page ads on popular investor channels during the bull run, send in-app alerts, email mass notifications urging customers to be cautious, or go one step further than posting their own warnings on social media and engage with influencers on platforms like YouTube, X, and TikTok to get the word out? Coinbase estimates the most recent breach will cost up to $400 million in reimbursements, legal costs, and security upgrades. But no one knows how they're deciding who to 'make whole' again. Crypto scams aren't new. However, the scale and precision of this latest spate sets a new standard — and serves as a warning to everyone who banks online. The breach didn't unlock Coinbase's crypto vaults. It didn't have to. With enough stolen data, scammers created the illusion of safety and authority. They sounded American. They used Coinbase's scripts. They shared scam tactics over Discord and Telegram. They were organized and, at times, bragged about their exploits. And just as the breach became public, the Department of Justice shut down its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team — the only federal group built to stop scams like this. 'It's the Wild West all over again,' West said. 'And good people are paying the price.' Victims want answers. They want Coinbase to: Make the reimbursement process transparent Follow through and do what they claim on their website to harden security and track stolen funds Be much more vocal and prolific with scam warnings Reverse the Terms of Service updates that limit consumer rights And most of all, they want people in charge at Coinbase to realize they're just like them, not nameless, faceless 'users." Join a class action: Law firms like Milberg are pursuing cases. File a complaint: With the SEC, FTC, or your state attorney general. Talk to a tax professional: Some losses may qualify for deductions. Contact Operation Shamrock: For advocacy and support. Use app-based or hardware 2FA Don't give your wallet address to anyone, ever. This is critical. Never move funds based on a call or email Set withdrawal allowlists on exchange accounts Use a hardware wallet like Ledger or Trezor for long-term holdings Don't download remote-access apps unless absolutely necessary And finally: demand accountability. This story isn't over. But hopefully the people who refuse to slink away and remain silent will get a chance to rewrite it—for good. Jennifer Jolly is an Emmy Award-winning consumer tech columnist and on-air contributor for "The Today Show.' The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY. Contact her via or @JennJolly on Instagram. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Coinbase victims speak out amid massive breach at crypto exchange
