š„ $90M in BTC, ETH & DOGE Burned in Iranian Protest Hack
A proāIsrael hacker collective known as Predatory Sparrow (Gonjeshke Darande) infiltrated Iranās top crypto exchange, Nobitex, and siphoned off an estimated $90 million in Bitcoin ($BTC ), Ethereum ($ETH ) and Dogecoin ($DOGE ). ļæ¼
Instead of cashing out, the hackers deployed a political statementāthey transferred the stolen funds into inaccessible vanity wallets (addresses like āF0ckIRGCterroristsā), irrevocably burning the crypto to highlight their protest against the Iranian regime and its Revolutionary Guard Corps. ļæ¼
This wasnāt about profitāit was hacktivism, a crypto flame war against state-backed financial systems.