{"id":43453,"date":"2025-08-21T18:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43453"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:46:49","slug":"victim-loses-91m-in-bitcoin-in-social-engineering-scam-zachxbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43453","title":{"rendered":"Victim Loses $91M in Bitcoin in Social Engineering Scam: ZachXBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/270\">uncovered<\/a> a high-profile social engineering attack on Thursday, with the victim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/explorer\/addresses\/btc\/bc1qyxyk4qgyrkx4rjwsuevug04wahdk6uf95mqlej\">losing 783 BTC<\/a> worth around $91.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The scam occurred on Aug. 19 and involved the attacker posing as a support agent for a hardware wallet before duping the victim into handing over wallet credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The attack mirrors a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/12\/20\/how-a-journalist-went-from-exposing-mexican-cartels-to-losing-his-crypto-life-savings\">string of social engineering attacks<\/a> over the past year and contributes to an already woeful year in terms of hacks and scams, with crypto investors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/24\/multisig-failures-dominate-as-usd2b-is-lost-in-web3-hacks-in-the-first-half\">losing $3.1 billion<\/a> in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/73187b1e9b8b517e4122a84c29cf8aaa87293902-2102x1184.png?auto=format\" alt=\"Theft wallet (Blockchain.com\" title=\"Theft wallet (Blockchain.com\"><\/p>\n<p>Once the malicious transfer was made, the funds began their journey through a typical laundering process, with multiple deposits made into Wasabi Wallet, a privacy tool commonly used to obfuscate the trail. <\/p>\n<p>The hack occurred exactly one year after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/16\/doj-charges-12-with-263m-crypto-theft-linked-to-genesis-creditor\">$243 million Genesis creditor theft<\/a>, a landmark event that sent ripples across the industry and led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/16\/doj-charges-12-with-263m-crypto-theft-linked-to-genesis-creditor\">arrest of 12 people<\/a> in California in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered a high-profile social engineering attack on Thursday, with the victim losing 783 BTC worth around $91.4 million. The scam occurred on Aug. 19 and involved the attacker posing as a support agent for a hardware wallet before duping the victim into handing over wallet credentials. The attack mirrors a string of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-43453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}