Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)
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anchored·2P7AgJ…u7dmSummary
On August 12, 2026, an unidentified Ethereum whale wallet was drained of approximately $25.6 million in WBTC, cbBTC, LDO, USDS, and CRV through a phishing attack — the second major exploitation of the same address, which had previously lost $24.2 million to a phishing incident in September 2023. The stolen assets were swapped to approximately 20 million DAI and 3,000 ETH and traced by PeckShield to four distinct attacker-controlled addresses. This page documents the phishing infrastructure and repeat-targeting pattern rather than the victim; the victim is the unnamed whale wallet, not a threat actor.
Connected Entities
11 entities · 60 linked investigations- USDS→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Harmony Bridge→mentioned with→Bitcoin(75%)
- Harmony Bridge→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Ethereum→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→USDS(70%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→Coinsbuy(70%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→Bitcoin(65%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→Harmony Bridge(70%)
- Crypto Whale — $25.6M Repeat Phishing Drain (August 2026)→mentioned with→FixedFloat(80%)
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Timeline(4 events)
6 September 2023
An Ethereum whale wallet (partially identified as 0x13e382...) lost approximately $24.23 million in rETH and stETH after signing malicious increaseAllowance transactions. Funds moved to attacker addresses 0x693b72 and 0x4c10a4, with a portion routed through FixedFloat.
BeinCrypto, Scam Sniffer, CryptoSlateJuly 2024
Approximately ten months after the 2023 theft, the 2023 attacker returned approximately $9.3 million in DAI to the victim in two transfers ($5.23 million and $4.04 million), representing roughly 90% restitution of the 2023 loss.
CryptoPotato, Startup Fortune12 August 2026
The same Ethereum whale wallet was drained of approximately $25.6 million in WBTC, cbBTC, LDO, USDS, and CRV via a phishing attack. Stolen assets were swapped to approximately 20 million DAI and 3,000 ETH. PeckShield traced proceeds to four attacker-controlled addresses. On-chain investigator Specter identified attacker address 0x8fEB...F95Ae.
PeckShield, Crypto Times, Tron Weekly, BeinCrypto16 August 2026
Crypto Times reported the week of August 9–15 as producing over $37 million in confirmed crypto theft across multiple incidents, with the whale phishing drain being the single largest loss of the week.
Crypto TimesDecision Log
- slot 445507038 · hash 2uYLLAX36W3Ptq7GEeGKrhER1Axwvb3Q3VHfDr2VuFMc
- slot 443510841 · hash AkKdcMTaq6WAvpno4KCCtWs2SkTx2xavgaZtsY9gdfk3
- slot 443510828 · hash hh2JCYFL6DbKEpLNBmmPcWFA8xeEgUkKok2sQDB6aaz
- slot 443510008 · hash 4XKMDdsEdLHqjkZEbYmySPBaUBtVUx3UKRjdJ7KSsvwh
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 12 of 12 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 8/23/2026, 12:09:05 PM
last updated: 8/25/2026, 3:11:22 AM
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