Scammer Reportedly Loses $4.8M Held on Tampered Ledger Wallets
Edited by Steinar Vigdel Kolnes, Editor, Oslo
A scammer reportedly lost $4.8 million in stolen funds stored on tampered Ledger wallets, while Thailand saw new ETF trading and South Korea blocked 27 exchanges.
A scammer reportedly lost $4.8 million in stolen funds after placing the assets on Ledger hardware wallets that had been tampered with, according to Cointelegraph’s Asia Express roundup.
The brief account did not explain how the wallets were altered or how the funds were lost. It also did not identify the person involved.
Elsewhere in Asia, Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds began trading in Thailand. South Korea separately blocked 27 cryptocurrency exchanges, though the summary did not name the platforms or explain the grounds for the restrictions.
Source: Cointelegraph
