According to ZachXBT monitoring, around 11 Odaily on January 10, 2026, a victim lost over $282 million worth of LTC and BTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam.
Attackers began exchanging the stolen 2.05 million LTC and 1,459 BTC for Monero through multiple instant exchanges, causing the XMR price to rise. Furthermore, the stolen BTC has been transferred to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin via Thorchain. The stolen addresses include bc1ql...tf86, bc1qp...0wzm, and ltc1q...nr70.




