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黑客出货、所以又拉了一波

On January 10, 2026 at around 11 pm UTC a victim lost $282M+ worth of LTC & BTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam.

The attacker began converting the stolen LTC & BTC to Monero via multiple instant exchanges causing the XMR price to sharply increase.

BTC was also bridged to Ethereum, Ripple, & Litecoin via Thorchain.

Theft addresses (2.05M LTC, 1459 BTC):
bc1qluxw46r55wf3dnk9c652vrt4duadm3hpuktf86
bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm
ltc1qly43c2prj4c2e85dcspzpjd36jnapnenldnr70

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2012212936735912351
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So, the entire $XMR move was because of this hacker swapping funds. The wallets still hold 1000+ $BTC and a lot of $LTC. Scenarios: 1. Hacker rushes to swap the remaining stolen funds into something else. XMR doesn't really go up, because they choose another asset to swap to. Bearish XMR. 2. Hac...