2.3 Million USDT Vanishes Overnight: What You Should Monitor More Than K Lines is Your Phone's "Time Bomb"
At 2 AM, a WeChat message woke me up, the man's voice trembling with tears: "Bro, 2.3 million USDT is all gone... Just because I let my wife click to transfer..."
On the phone, he said to send a screenshot of the mnemonic phrase via WeChat before the business trip, instructing his wife to log in to the wallet step by step to transfer funds. The result? His wife replied, "Done transferring," and when he opened the wallet after landing, the glaring "0" in the balance section felt like a hammer to his heart. The police just said, "Family operations are civil disputes"; his wife cried uncontrollably: "I only pasted the mnemonic phrase, I didn't touch the transfer!"
The truth is even more heartbreaking than police records: his wife's old Android phone had been connected to a family WiFi with an unchanged password for three years, and the browser still had a "financial assistant" plugin from when they grabbed financial coupons two years ago. The hacker had already been monitoring the clipboard through the plugin; as soon as the mnemonic phrase was pasted, it was automatically uploaded, and in an instant, 2.3 million was transferred "at a second's speed", without even generating a transfer record.
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