A crypto user has lost more than $282 million in Bitcoin and Litecoin after falling victim to a highly coordinated social engineering attack.
The incident ranks among the largest individual crypto thefts ever recorded, according to blockchain investigators.
The theft occurred on 10 January 2026 at around 11:00 pm UTC, based on on-chain data analysis.
The victim was reportedly deceived by an attacker posing as official Trezor customer support.
The impersonator allegedly convinced the user to disclose their hardware wallet seed phrase.
Once the seed phrase was revealed, the attacker gained full control over the wallet.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT was among the first to flag the suspicious wallet activity.
The attacker swiftly transferred the funds across multiple networks to complicate tracking efforts.
A total of 1,459 Bitcoin, valued at roughly $139 million, were drained from the compromised wallet.
The wallet also held around 2.05 million Litecoin, worth approximately $153 million at the time of the theft.