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User loses $282M in one of the largest social engineering crypto heists

Crypto | 2026-01-17 at 09:54 UTC | Source: cointelegraph.com
The crypto user was reportedly deceived by an attacker impersonating Trezor support, tricked into revealing their hardware wallet seed phrase.
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