According to @PeckShieldAlert, ZachXBT reported that on January 10, 2026, a victim lost over $282 million in BTC and LTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam (source: @PeckShieldAlert). The attacker has bridged 928.7 BTC (about $71 million) into 19,631.1 ETH on Ethereum, 3.15 million XRP on Ripple, and 77,200 LTC, indicating active cross-chain fund movements linked to the incident (source: @PeckShieldAlert). Traders should monitor the chain flows and any addresses referenced by the alert for potential short-term liquidity impacts in ETH, XRP, and LTC markets (source: @PeckShieldAlert).

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.