🥶 One Wrong Copy… $12.4 Million Vanished
Yes — this actually happened. And honestly, it’s painful to read.
A crypto user made a mistake that cost 4,556 ETH (around $12.4 million).
No hack.
No smart-contract bug.
No exploit.
Just one small copy-paste error.
What really went wrong? 👇
The wallet (0xd674…) frequently sent ETH to Galaxy Digital, always using the same deposit address. This predictable habit didn’t go unnoticed.
An attacker spotted the pattern and played a dangerous psychological game.
They created a look-alike Ethereum address — same starting characters, same ending characters — nearly impossible to notice at a glance. Then they sent tiny dust transactions to the victim’s wallet, carefully planting that fake address into the transaction history.
Hours later… disaster struck 😫
When the victim went to deposit ETH again, they didn’t manually paste the address. Instead, they copied it directly from transaction history — assuming it was Galaxy’s address.
It wasn’t.
One click later, 4,556 ETH was sent straight to the attacker’s wallet.
No warnings.
No reversals.
No second chances.
On-chain transactions don’t care about intention — only precision.
Addresses involved:
Victim wallet: 0xd6741220a947941bF290799811FcDCeA8AE4A7Da
Real Galaxy address: 0x6D90CC8Ce83B6D0ACf634ED45d4bCc37eDdD2E48
Attacker’s fake address: 0x6d908Bb7F81454d378194FF0E9f471334e592E48
The brutal lesson 🧠
Blockchain doesn’t forgive mistakes.
Never copy deposit addresses from transaction history.
Always verify every character, not just the first and last few.
Saving 5 seconds can sometimes cost millions.
Stay sharp. Stay paranoid.
Crypto rewards precision — and punishes carelessness.