🦣 Mammoth of the year 2025: how a whale was scammed out of $282,000,000

💀 $282 million — that’s how much was stolen from a crypto whale's hardware wallet.

Not a hack, not an exploit, not a bug…

🎭 Social engineering.

🔎 The famous on-chain detective ZachXBT revealed the details of one of the costliest mistakes of the year — the 'genius' gave access away without even noticing how he was carefully scammed.

🔥 The scammer acted without hesitation:

he started aggressively laundering BTC and LTC through Monero, single-handedly pumping the price of $XMR.

While the market speculated whether it was siphoned from $ZEC — the truth turned out to be much more mundane.

🌪 Next — even more beautifully:

818 BTC (~$78 million) was funneled through THORChain,

which, by the way, even publicly boasted about it 🤡

The money scattered across the networks:

• ETH

• XRP

• LTC

💸 The irony of the moment:

while ordinary traders count every dollar of commission,

whales hand out budgets to scammers as if they were small states 😏

💡 The moral is simple and as old as blockchain:

a hardware wallet is not a panacea,

if your main vulnerable smart contract is yourself.

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#CryptoSecurity #Bitcoin #Blockchain #DeFi

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