Crypto trader loses over $12 million in ‘painful’ mistake

CoinLive
2026.01.31 11:07
A cryptocurrency trader has lost more than $12 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) after mistakenly sending funds to a fraudulent wallet address, in what blockchain data suggests was a successful address-poisoning attack. On-chain records show the victim address, identified as 0xd674, had an established pattern of transferring large sums of ETH to a Galaxy Digital deposit wallet, according to insights shared by Lookonchain on January 31. A victim (0xd674) lost 4556 $ETH($12.4M) due to a copy-paste address mistake source: https://finbold.com/crypto-trader-loses-over-12-million-in-painful-mistake/