Back in 2010, Wei Zhang, a Chinese teenager passionate about tech, invested just $10 in Bitcoin when it was worth less than a cent. That small bet gave him thousands of BTC.
Fast forward to 2017: he had built a successful crypto margin trading platform and owned 99,000 BTC. But everything changed in 2018 when he fell for a phishing email disguised as a business offer.
Hackers used the fake link to steal his login credentials, gaining full access to his exchange. In minutes, 99,000 BTC were gone vanished through layers of untraceable transactions.
The loss destroyed his platform, his reputation, and nearly his future.
Today, those coins would be worth over $10.5 billion.
Wei didnāt disappear. Instead, he pivoted to cybersecurity, using his experience to educate and protect the next generation of crypto traders.