{"id":31356,"date":"2020-11-06T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31356"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:15:24","slug":"hackers-moved-1-15-million-xrp-stolen-from-ledger-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-moved-1-15-million-xrp-stolen-from-ledger-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers moved 1.15 million XRP stolen from Ledger users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a recent phishing attack, Ledger hardware-wallet owners lost more than 1,150,000 XRP (more than $292,000 at current prices). XRP Forensics reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This phishing scam (notice the fake domain l\u1eb9dger\\\\.com), has already stolen more than 1,150,000 XRP from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ledger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ledger<\/a> users. Please watch out!<\/p>\n<p>We will follow the money. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q8XD2awdo7\">pic.twitter.com\/Q8XD2awdo7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XRP Forensics (@xrpforensics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xrpforensics\/status\/1323176820368384001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to researchers, the entire amount was sent in five payments to an address on the Bittrex exchange. The platform did not manage to block the transactions in time.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, XRP holders were warned about a phishing campaign impersonating Team Ripple offering participation in an XRP airdrop. The attackers invite users to join a \u201cwhite list,\u201d registration for which requires entering the seed phrase for the Ledger wallet or a private key.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, Ledger users <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ledger-users-report-mass-phishing-attack\">began receiving<\/a> phishing emails, in which unknown individuals purporting to be the support team claimed that Ledger Live had been infected by malware and offered to install an emergency update.<\/p>\n<p>Victims <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ledger-reports-data-breach-affecting-around-one-million-users\">linked<\/a> the attack to a July data breach involving around a million users from a marketing database. However, the wallet developers said they have not yet been able to confirm this hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>In early November, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/organisers-of-phishing-attack-on-ledger-users-move-107-btc\">moved<\/a> 107 BTC to two addresses, proceeds from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the recent phishing attack, Ledger hardware-wallet owners lost more than 1,150,000 XRP (more than $292,000 at current prices), according to XRP Forensics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1640,112],"class_list":["post-31356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ledger","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31358,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions\/31358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}