A crypto holder has lost $282&nbsp;million in bitcoin and litecoin after a scammer impersonating a customer support employee for the Trezor hardware wallet manufacturer successfully convinced them into revealing their <button class="define-target" id="seed-phrase">seed phrase</button>. After gaining access to the assets, they quickly swapped them to the Monero <button class="define-target" id="privacycoin">privacycoin</button>. The volume of assets was so large that the Monero price spiked as the scammer laundered the finds. The scammer also swapped assets using the THORChain project, which boasted on social media about the "World record speedrun. ⚡️" (presumably without realizing they were bragging about a thief using their project to launder money).<p>Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow, although this represents only 0.2% of the total loss.</p>

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