According to data published by PeckShieldAlert, anonymous cryptocurrency wallet 0xB2CB…0Ff7 was attacked by a hacker who used a phishing scheme to steal 102.37 stETH from this cryptocurrency holder. This is the equivalent of approximately $236,000 in fiat money.
According to data published by PeckShieldAlert, anonymous cryptocurrency wallet 0xB2CB…0Ff7 was attacked by a hacker who used a phishing scheme to steal 102.37 stETH from this cryptocurrency holder. This is the equivalent of approximately $236,000 in fiat money.
This was reported on X/Twitter a little over an hour ago. However, this loss of cryptocurrency is just a drop in the ocean compared to the total amount of cryptocurrency stolen in this way since 2021.
Millions of dollars worth of Chainlink lost to hackers
Phishing attacks are a popular tool exploited by cybercriminals to steal cryptocurrency from users. Around the end of December, a Chainlink whale lost a whopping $4.42 million worth of LINK, which it had acquired between June 2022 and October 2023: 275,700 LINK tokens.
According to @lookonchain’s tweet, the unfortunate crypto whale accidentally clicked on a phishing link and was tricked into approving a transaction and thus losing all of his cryptocurrencies. Of the aforementioned $4.42 million in LINK that they lost, half was the actual amount of LINK ($2.26 million) and the other half ($2.4 million) was the unrealized gain they had obtained with that cryptography.
$1 billion worth of cryptocurrency stolen in phishing attacks
A report published by Chainalysis claimed that since 2021, phishing scams have managed to steal at least a staggering $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the cryptocurrency space. According to the report, in 2022 alone, users lost more than $500 million worth of cryptocurrency in phishing attacks.
As of late fall 2023, the amount of cryptocurrency stolen in this way amounted to $374.6 million, as a large number of holders were tricked into inadvertently approving crypto transactions.
Is Ethereum heading to $4,000?
Popular crypto YouTuber Lark Davis recently commented on the recent prediction made by banking giant Standard Chartered, as he expects the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, to rise back to the $4,000 level by May 23.
This is the date the cryptocurrency community expects the SEC regulator to issue a positive ruling on the Ethereum spot ETFs filed by BlackRock and Grayscale. Davis highlighted that following this approval, DOGE and SOL ETFs could emerge, potentially by the end of 2024.
