The stolen money was moved into a fresh wallet an hour ago, and is believed to be the result of a social engineering compromise
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Following the incident, over $18M taken across multiple chains has been returned by the attacker, an uncommon resolution in cases of this scale.
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Arbitrum has taken emergency action in coordination with law enforcement to transfer the funds to a temporary frozen wallet.
The attacker no longer has access to the stolen funds, and any next steps will be handled through Arbitrum governance.
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Only $71M of the stolen funds was frozen by Arbitrum, with the rest of the money being bridged to Bitcoin through Thorchain, UmbraCash, ChainFlip, and BitTorrent.
Despite being 2026βs largest exploit so far, the exploiter faces little to no AML freezes while openly moving funds across chains.
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Per ZachXBT, a family member of the streamer was kidnapped, forcing them to pay a $2M ransom in Bitcoin for their release.
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Tether has announced that two addresses on the Tron network have been frozen following a seizure by the U.S. government.
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Attackers were able to send out their Litecoin multiple times after regenerating the blockchain and targeting several cross chain protocols.
Near Intents has lost more than $600k from this incident, with the full extent of damages yet to be determined.
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A whitehat hacker drained 85,034 LTC (~$4.7M) in March, which was returned in exchange for a $45K bounty.
In April, Litecoin was targeted again by a second attacker exploiting the same vulnerability, despite the team believing it had already been fixed.
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The attack mainly targets wallets over 7 years old, likely due to key compromise, with only a few wallets being less than 5 years old.
Over $1M has been stolen from hundreds of victims and laundered to Bitcoin.
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The group gained access to company inboxes through social engineering and sent out fake payment instructions.
Authorities seized $1.2M in crypto, luxury watches, and a residence.
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The crypto space recorded 40 major hacks last month, with Drift Protocol and KelpDAO ranking among the top 10 largest exploit losses since 2021.
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The feature locks on-chain withdrawals for 1-7 days, giving users time to cancel suspicious activity before funds leave the exchange.
It aims to reduce risks from wrench attacks amid a rise in crypto-related kidnappings, particularly in Europe with France as a key hotspot.
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Last week, a Chinese crypto exchange disabled withdrawals and stole over $150M in user funds.
Since then, ZachXBT has traced the stolen funds and, in coordination with Tether, Binance, OKX, and the U.S. Government, helped freeze over $41M in USDT.
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The disclosed details closely mirror an August 2024 crypto theft where a whale lost roughly $55M in DAI.
Coinbase has since refused to return the funds after investigators traced the stolen DAI to a Coinbase retail account.
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Per ZachXBT, Lab token surged 3,700% in a month while 95% of the token supply was controlled by the team and insiders.
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The attacker drained $209K from a year old contract and later agreed to a 90/10 split, returning 90% of the funds while keeping 10% as a bounty in exchange for no legal action.
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The scammer was somehow able to place an offer to buy +888 8 321 using fake USDT, despite the platform supposedly only supporting verified tokens.
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According to ZachXBT, Dritan stole $19M through social engineering scams and used the funds on private jets, luxury watches, and connections with rappers including Lil Tjay.
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Multiple associates of Dritan are being targeted for their involvement in social engineering scams and assisting him in illegal activities.
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A user was able to recover 5 BTC from a lost wallet created in 2015 after sharing the wallet files with Claude AI to identify and decrypt the password.
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The crypto whale was transferring funds and sent the first portion (~$300k) successfully.
Shortly after, the wallet was targeted with an address poisoning attack, causing the victim to copy a lookalike address and send the remaining ~$100k to the attacker.
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