ZachXBT Exposes $3 Million XRP Heist After Hardware Wallet Breach

ZachXBT Exposes $3 Million XRP Heist After Hardware Wallet Breach


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On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has traced a $3.05 million theft of XRP from a US retail user to a laundering route that ran through Bridgers—an aggregator formerly associated with SWFT—and into over-the-counter venues linked to Huione, the Cambodian financial network that the US government moved last week to cut off from the American financial system.

Publishing the findings on October 19, ZachXBT said a “US based victim lost $3.05M (1.2M XRP) from their Ellipal wallet,” adding: “Here’s the tracing of where the stolen funds ended up and the biggest takeaways for similar thefts.”

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Inside The $3 Million XRP Robbery

In a thread, ZachXBT identified the theft address—r3cf5mgj5qEcj9n4Th28Es7NVRnXGJjkzc—by matching dates and amounts from

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