A cryptothief takes $4.4 million in a single day as the cost of the LastPass hack increases.
In September, it was revealed that a staggering $35 million in cryptocurrency had been pilfered from victims of the LastPass security breach that occurred in 2022. This recent breach only added to the growing tally. A minimum of 25 individuals reported losses totaling $4.4 million from 80 different cryptocurrency wallets, all linked to a data breach that affected the password management software, LastPass, back in 2022. On October 27th, in a tweet on Twitter, an on-chain researcher who goes by the pseudonym ZachXBT, along with MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan, meticulously tracked the movements of funds from over 80 compromised wallets, all of which had been compromised on October 25th. It’s worth noting that most, if not all, of the victims were long-time users of LastPass, many of whom confirmed that they had stored their cryptocurrency wallet keys and seeds within the LastPass system. This information was disclosed in a report by Chainabuse. In December of 2022, LastPass...