Mija Markovic

Mija Markovic reports on the intersection of cryptocurrency, security and consumer protection for Yahoo News.

Her coverage tracks how digital asset markets, infrastructure failures and fraud schemes affect ordinary users and investors, rather than only the price of bitcoin or the fortunes of major platforms. She moves between daily market moves, law enforcement actions and data breaches, tying individual incidents to broader questions of trust in crypto services and access to banking for crypto businesses. A recurring theme in her work is the vulnerability of retail participants, from elderly customers targeted by scams to hardware wallet users whose personal details are exposed in third‑party breaches.

Crypto crime and consumer scams

Markovic frequently covers criminal cases and scams that exploit the opacity and speed of cryptocurrency transactions. Her reporting includes multi‑million‑pound frauds where offenders pose as police officers to seize victims’ coins, then spend the proceeds on luxury goods and holidays. She also reports on incidents in which frontline staff, such as cashiers, intervene to stop elderly customers from wiring large sums to bitcoin scams, setting out the amounts involved and the tactics used to pressure victims.

Across these stories she focuses on the mechanics of the fraud - how criminals present themselves, what they promise, and how they move funds - alongside clear outcomes such as convictions and prison sentences. The emphasis is on practical detail: the value of the stolen crypto, the methods used to gain victims’ trust, and the consequences once courts hand down sentences or police issue warnings. This gives her crime coverage a case‑file feel, grounded in specific incidents rather than abstract discussion of “crypto crime.”

Security breaches and hardware wallet risks

Another strand of her beat is security incidents that turn digital‑asset risk into a physical threat for investors. She has reported on hardware wallet providers whose shipping partners suffer data breaches, exposing customers’ names, addresses and order details across multiple countries. In that work she spells out how a leak at a logistics firm can leave crypto holders identifiable and locatable, raising the risk of targeted attacks at their homes.

Markovic’s treatment of these breaches connects the corporate chain - wallet maker, fulfilment partner, and end customer - so it is clear where security failed and who is now exposed. She highlights the time frame of affected orders, the geographic spread of compromised data and the types of information misused, showing how operational lapses can quickly become personal safety issues for people who store value on devices that are designed to be secure. Her security stories sit alongside her crime coverage, building a picture of crypto risk that spans both online and offline threats.

Market moves and policy friction

Markovic also writes on daily movements in the crypto markets, linking price action to infrastructure concerns and investor flows. Her recent pieces follow bitcoin’s rise toward and fall below the $65,000 level, explaining how new security risks in the ecosystem, ETF inflows and worries over protocol forks play into those moves. She notes how major altcoins mirror bitcoin’s trajectory, giving readers a concise view of the broader market rather than treating each token in isolation.

Alongside market wraps, she covers frictions between traditional banking and the crypto sector.

Her reporting includes parliamentary figures writing to the chief executives of major banks to demand clarity on how they treat accounts for crypto and digital‑asset firms, and whether refusals are limiting the sector’s ability to operate. By pairing this kind of policy story with her market and security coverage, she shows how regulation, bank risk appetite and infrastructure resilience all feed into the same question: how safe and accessible crypto really is for businesses and individuals.

Viewed together, Markovic’s work presents crypto as a system where price, policy, crime and security constantly interact. Her emphasis on specific incidents - from cashier‑intercepted scams to logistics‑driven data breaches and parliamentary letters - makes her coverage particularly useful for stories that seek to connect individual cases to wider trends in digital finance.