I've got countless stories this month from founders and funds seeing these hit their inboxes.
You need to stop clicking links and downloading files—whether they come via email, Telegram, WhatsApp, Linkedin, whatever.
If you clicked / downloaded anything that looks like the above, you need to sound the alarm *now.*
- Consider your shit completely compromised
- Get help from experts
- Rotate all keys & pws
- Secure any servers, infra, smart contracts you have access/admin to
PLZ STAY SAFE! 💖
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For the past 48hrs I've been unwinding a massive wallet draining operation 😳😭
I don't know how big it is but since Dec 2022 it's drained 5000+ ETH and ??? in tokens / NFTs / coins across 11+ chains.
Its rekt my friends & OGs who are reasonably secure.
No one knows how.
If you are reading this, you're the type to be drained by this.
This is NOT a low-brow phishing site or a random scammer. It has NOT rekt a single noob. It ONLY rekts OGs.
If you have all your stuff under a single Secret Recovery Phrase / Private Key, please be safe migrate. 🙏
Afaik, no one has determined the source of their compromise.
Multiple devices have been forensic'd. Nothing.
The only known commonalities are:
- Keys were created btwn 2014-2022
- Folks are those who are more crypto native than most (e.g. multiple addresses, work in space, etc)
hey anyone know whos onboarding the most people to web3 right now?
like taking people who have never done crypto stuff before and getting them to set up an account on a CEX, buy some crypto w/ their fiat, send the coins to their own wallet, and then interact with a dapp?
They talked to—and *listened* to—people who had done it before. They got help. They worked with the FBI and their legal counsel. They leaned on everyone for *support.*
But their attitude was that no one else was going to get the funds returned so they better get them returned.
This attitude, esp. when combined with them always re-focusing on the end goal of doing right by those who had lost $, is what ultimately made them flexible enough + resilient enough to connect with the exploiter initially, and keep communicating with him over the ensuing weeks.
The selling of this bitcoin is, by far, the least interesting part of the saga.
The govt's seizure, the dude who had his bitcoin seized, and why it even got seized in the first place is full of so many amazing, hysterical, enraging gems.