Cybercriminals stole $5.36 million from around 40 victims who used the password manager LastPass.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT shared on December 17 that the stolen funds were converted to Ethereum
$3,997.14
and then moved across instant exchanges to hide their tracks.
They also provided evidence of the attack on Chainabuse, a platform for reporting scams.
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The security group Security Alliance (SEAL) warned in a December 16 post on X that any passwords or seed phrases stored in LastPass before 2023 remain at risk.
SEAL urged affected users to transfer their assets immediately, saying, “Move your assets before hackers move them for you”.
This incident relates to a major LastPass data breach in December 2022. During the breach, hackers accessed a backup of customer vault data stored in secured storage.
By September 2023, reports showed losses of over $35 million in cryptocurrency. Adding the recent $5.36 million theft and another $4.4 million incident on October 25, the total losses now approach $45 million.
Unfortunately, the LastPass breach is not the only recent incident to crypto security. On December 13, Ledger wallet users lost 10 BTC
$106,705.21
, valued at approximately $1 million, and $1.5 million in NFTs due to a phishing attack. How did the hacker pull it off? Read the full story.
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