🥶 One Call and a Click. $282,000,000 Gone.🥶 This wasn’t some genius exploit. No code bug. It was a simple conversation.
SO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS " in simple words":)
On January 10, just before midnight UTC, someone got talked into unlocking their own vault. A hardware wallet. Cold. “Safe.” Untouchable… until the owner touches it themselves. In minutes, over $282 million in
$BTC and
$LTC slipped away.
And the chain reaction was instant. the attacker didn’t sit on the funds. He moved fast, messy, loud. Large chunks of the stolen coins were rushed through instant exchanges and flipped into
#Monero . That sudden flood is what lit the fuse under $XMR ’s price. It wasn’t a hype at all. It was a simple thief trying to vanish.
At the same time, Bitcoin was being ferried across chains using THORChain. Hundreds of
#BTC morphed into ETH, XRP, LTC sprayed across ecosystems like fingerprints in the rain. Every hop made the trail blurrier.
What’s haunting is how simple it was. No broken cryptography.
neither cracked firmware. Just trust, nudged in the wrong direction.
The wallets briefly holding the loot were massive. Millions of LTC. Thousands of BTC. And then… nothing.
CONLUSION from our end : This is the part nobody likes to admit: In crypto, the weakest link isn’t math. It’s us.
Anyways this news was first break by ZachXBT , we just dive into the news and researching what actually happens.
Theft addresses:
bc1qluxw46r55wf3dnk9c652vrt4duadm3hpuktf86
bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm
ltc1qly43c2prj4c2e85dcspzpjd36jnapnenldnr70