🌵 When pride overrides common sense: Korean officials accidentally leaked the keys to the vault in plain sight.
📊 South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) wanted to brag about a successful raid on tax evaders. In their press release, they included a photo of seized Ledger hardware wallets, and right next to them — a wide-open sheet of paper with the seed phrase (24 words). Naturally, hackers didn't need a second invitation: within hours, 4 million PRTG tokens worth $4.8M were drained. The attacker even sent a bit of ETH for gas first before calmly sweeping the entire balance in three transactions.
🏦 Bottom line: This is a textbook example that crypto's main vulnerability isn't the code, but the human element. Even the best cold wallet becomes useless if its keeper is an idiot with a smartphone.
While Korean authorities learn not to take selfies with passwords, projects like $KAVA, $ALICE, and $ENSO continue to fight for liquidity in a world where security is often just an illusion. 🦾🐌
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