A user lost $68 million in BTC, falling victim to a "dust attack".

[bayu7adi]

P.S. Have any of you been in similar situations? If yes, please share your story. It will be helpful for others.

Me? No. The BTC wallet that I have to date has never received a shipment of suspicious dust tokens like that. Moreover, even though I never felt like I had been attacked like that, every time I wanted to send BTC to another address, I always checked the address that I copied and pasted. At least the last 10 digits and the first 10 digits are very helpful for us to ensure that BTC is sent to the correct address. I still try to ensure that transactions run smoothly without any problems, therefore, as much as possible, every address that I paste, I always check twice or three times.

[LogitechMouse]

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P.S. Have any of you been in similar situations? If yes, please share your story. It will be helpful for others.

Correct me, but isn't this the infamous one that happened months ago?
I can't remember it my apologies.

Anyway, like I always say, learning really is very costly. Here, it costs the investor $68 Million to learn something. Learning is expensive - very expensive that's why for those who saw this attack, learn how to secure your wallet, and double or even triple check the address that you are sending with. If possible, look by letter/number and don't just look at the first 5 and the final 5 symbols of the address.

I hope this will be the first, and last time that this happens (I doubt it will ).

[bitterguy28]

This is a weird story, and I think there's a lot of fake stuff in it.

First the sum, like rally $70 million and you don't even check the address?
Then, the only case that is actually solved and we have a nearly unknown company bragging about how they managed to get the money back:
https://www.cryptonews.net/news/security/29013603/
So the attacker was contacting the victim demanding 10% of the funds but at the same time it was moving the between exchanges...common!

It's just like a drone to monitor the transactions of the users so that they can easily victimized the user if they found a hole. I don't know what exactly their way to steal people's money since it's 100% secured one you owned the private key, but until your device is infected. If you know that you are being tracked, the best way to do is to use mixers.

There is no hack, no infection, no vulnerability, the attacker simply sends dust (small amount of coins) to different addresses that usually have interactions with other large addresses using himself an address that resembles the other ones.

So if you're use to move coins from your address to you excnge address for example  bc1q2ps0clygv8d5stq******* and you're to lazy to check and you copy paste from the history the attacker address bc1q2ps0clytv1d6sgy******* because it seems familiar you're done for.

and sometimes the wallet address is almost completely similar to that said address this is why the victims are being lured?
this is why I kept checking my wallet address several times before going into the sending , not just the starting numbers but every single degits/letters for sure transacting .