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One victim lost over $282 million worth of LTC and BTC in a scam, which was subsequently converted to XMR
16/01/2026 14:00
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Svmuu News: According to ZachXBT’s monitoring, at around 11:00 PM on January 10, 2026, a victim lost over $282 million worth of LTC and BTC due to a social engineering scam targeting a hardware wallet. The attacker began exchanging the stolen 2.05 million LTC and 1,459 BTC for Monero through multiple instant exchanges, causing the price of XMR to rise. Additionally, the stolen BTC has been cross-chained to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin via Thorchain. The compromised addresses include bc1ql...tf86, bc1qp...0wzm, and ltc1q...nr70.
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