Wallet Drain Hack

TOTAL LOST $2.4M
Medium Phishing Attacks

What happened

Phishing attack on Ethereum user results in loss of $2,430,419 worth of FTM, USDC, and USDT, later converted to 1,082.98 ETH.

On December 21, 2023, a user on the Ethereum chain fell victim to a phishing attack. The attacker managed to gain access to the victim's wallet and drained their FTM, USDC, and USDT holdings. The stolen funds were subsequently swapped to ETH using MetaMask and then transferred to another EOA. In an attempt to recover their funds, the victim sent an on-chain message offering a negotiable bounty for assistance.

The total loss from this phishing attack is estimated to be around $2,430,419, equivalent to 1,082.98 ETH.

Attacker Address:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x4ce2f0bb…c760f1

Funds Holder as of Dec 26, 2023:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xb919a54f…29727d

Malicious Transaction:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe98ec2be…dee98f

On-chain Message:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd152042a…ce4b3e

Case & protocol details

Classification Other
Protocol Type Exploit/Phishing

Evidence & learning

Sources and on-chain records

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