Breaches and incidentsBriefConfirmed by two or more outlets
Individual holder: about USD 282M in BTC and LTC stolen by hardware-wallet social engineering
About 23:00 UTC 10 Jan 2026: ZachXBT reported one victim lost about 2.05M LTC and 1,459 BTC (about USD 282M).
- Disclosed
What happened
- Root cause: social engineering tied to a hardware wallet. Reports differ: one says the victim was tricked into revealing the seed phrase, another describes impersonation of support staff. The exact method is not confirmed.
- Attribution: none.
- Response: the attacker swapped proceeds to Monero and moved BTC through THORChain. No recovery reported.
Sources
- https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/zachxbt-highlights-usd282m-theft-of-bitcoin-and-litecoin-in-hardware-wallet-scam
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hacker-steals-282-million-crypto-185613887.html
- https://crypto.news/282m-in-bitcoin-litecoin-stolen-hardware-wallet-scam/
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