List of Flash News about hardware wallet social engineering scam
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2026-01-17 02:45 |
$282M BTC and LTC Drained in Hardware-Wallet Scam: Attacker Swaps 818 BTC via THORChain Into ETH, XRP, LTC; XMR Price Spikes
According to @lookonchain, a victim lost over $282M in LTC and BTC in a hardware-wallet social engineering scam, and the attacker converted part of the funds into XMR, triggering a sharp XMR price spike; source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2012212936735912351. The attacker used THORChain to swap 818 BTC (about $78M) into 19,631 ETH (about $64.5M), 3.15M XRP (about $6.5M), and 77,285 LTC (about $5.8M); source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qgkjems88jyk8hasj9ncspxz093nepdn00vaq0y. Trading-wise, on-chain flows show concentrated activity across XMR, ETH, XRP, and LTC executed through THORChain, with the XMR price spike explicitly cited alongside the swap paths and amounts; source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2012212936735912351, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qgkjems88jyk8hasj9ncspxz093nepdn00vaq0y. |