Crypto millionaire leaked his seed phrase live and lost $2.5M in seconds

[Faisal2202]

So hold on a minute, did you watch the video? If not, then go and  "Watch it first". Now observe how much time they take to pick that seed phrase and use it to open his wallet and move $2.5M in just 10 to 14 seconds. I counted every second, and it took them around 10 to 14 seconds to move all that amount from his wallet. Now I don't know how it is possible or what kind of tools these people might be using to extract the seed phrase, as it was 24 words and they wrote it that quickly and moved funds, even I could never do it with my own seed phrase.

It does feel staged, I don't know but the amount vanished, the seed phrase was visible.

Anyway, this case is just another example that destroys the idea that only beginners can make fatal mistakes. Experienced traders can also lose everything from one lapse in judgement and in self custody, the market is not always your biggest enemy, sometimes You are.


So what kind of lessons has this incident left for us:

• All it takes is one moment of carelessness and it can permanently erase years of gains.
• Hackers are not your biggest enemies, sometimes the real risk is your own operational mistakes.
• If you are wealthy, it does not mean you get more security, protocol. Anyone can fail to practice basic wallet hygiene.
• Self custody gives freedom but remember there is no undo button, the moment he saw the wallet he knew there is nothing he could do, he crash was real
• We should never let our gaurd down, no matter how much time we have spent, this dude here was scammed by his own followers probably.

This was one simple misake and that cost him fortune, if you are streaming or not, always check your surrondings, double check before starting streams, and always use bigger delays when streaming so you could do something once you realize the mistake.


Edit: The case turned out to be fake and staged and old also but lesson is still valid.

[Nwada001]

I can't buy that story; I see it as a planned something to attract as much attention as it's already drawing to the video and that streamer profile.

Now as a streamer who is always clicking the mouse and moving your cursor while you are on live record, you will have a tab open where your seed phrase is well written down and while holding such a large amount in an online wallet, you still save the phrase in a system connected to the internet, which is being used mostly all day.

If the story is real, which I'm not convinced it is, the streamer will learn in a very hard way how to protect his holdings, and not all who are on his stream are there to learn anything; some are just looking for opportunities to exploit.

[EluguHcman]

So hold on a minute, did you watch the video? If not, then go and  "Watch it first". Now observe how much time they take to pick that seed phrase and use it to open his wallet and move $2.5M in just 10 to 14 seconds. I counted every second, and it took them around 10 to 14 seconds to move all that amount from his wallet. Now I don't know how it is possible or what kind of tools these people might be using to extract the seed phrase, as it was 24 words and they wrote it that quickly and moved funds, even I could never do it with my own seed phrase.

Be aware of the advanced AI generations contains electronics devices which may be common cheap (s) that is just so compatible with can decode sounds or words and automatically redefined directly in the software.

With this kind of technology being experienced, I can imagine how this kind of fast transactions can be made posible with the scammer possessing such intensive tool that can refines spoken words automatically like that.
With such nature of tool, such dictatorship and transactionof can also be made within such interval of few seconds as the man just made revealed of the seed phrase.

[7juju]

I can't buy that story; I see it as a planned something to attract as much attention as it's already drawing to the video and that streamer profile.

Now as a streamer who is always clicking the mouse and moving your cursor while you are on live record, you will have a tab open where your seed phrase is well written down and while holding such a large amount in an online wallet, you still save the phrase in a system connected to the internet, which is being used mostly all day.

If the story is real, which I'm not convinced it is, the streamer will learn in a very hard way how to protect his holdings, and not all who are on his stream are there to learn anything; some are just looking for opportunities to exploit.

You have a point here and I’m not buying into that story as well, because it’s not looking real. This is purely something that was preplanned, the streamer had people already on ground to move the asset to a wallet they control. Make it make sense that 14 seconds was enough to copy and paste seed phrase into a new wallet, copy your wallet address and move asset there. It could also be that they made this video for educative purpose only.

[Cricktor]

Whatever is true to this story, I don't care, it's shit in every possible direction. My only question is: why is someone so damn stupid, being staged or not, to have his mnemonic recovery words ("the seed") in digital form on an online device? In a browser tab??

Sorry, but this is beyond stupid, if it wasn't staged. It's stupid and such an annoyance if it was staged and I have no mercy for all the folks that entertain such behavior by using such "social media". You deserve what you get there.

I didn't watch the video because I don't go to X to waste my time for every shit that's posted or exaggerated there. I might have missed something. It's ok, I will survive.  

[Zaguru12]

Whatever is true to this story, I don't care, it's shit in every possible direction. My only question is: why is someone so damn stupid, being staged or not, to have his mnemonic recovery words ("the seed") in digital form an an online device? In a browser tab??

Sorry, but this is beyond stupid, if it wasn't staged. It's stupid and such an annoyance if it was staged and I have no mercy for all the folks that entertain such behavior by using such "social media". You deserve what you get there.

I didn't watch the video because I don't go to X to waste my time for every shit that's posted or exaggerated there. I might have missed something. It's ok, I will survive. 

Forget about it, it was staged because immediately he opened a file already minimized on the desktop and showed it out and then when no one watched he said on the live like “is that my seedphrase” if it wasn’t staged would he have said it or quietly just end the stream and then go and withdraw is assets, but no he announces the page opened was his seed phrase and then went ahead straight on live stream to check if his wallet was save? Then refreshes and sees that it’s gone under 14 seconds. This is obviously one of those tricks to get more views on this stream.

Now I don't know how it is possible or what kind of tools these people might be using to extract the seed phrase, as it was 24 words and they wrote it that quickly and moved funds, even I could never do it with my own seed phrase.

It does feel staged, I don't know but the amount vanished, the seed phrase was visible.

It’s staged, that wallet is a phantom wallet and its default seed phrase is a 12- word phrase and not 24-word although it doesn’t allows the import of a 24-word phrase.

No matte how fast the Solana network is, it’s not fast to actually confirm transactions in less than 10 seconds

[Cryptoprincess101]

It does feel staged, I don't know but the amount vanished, the seed phrase was visible.

How is it possible to copy a seed phrase that contains 24 words and move $2.5 million within just 14 seconds? this is some kind of staged story and i refuse to believe it. How can someone be that fast to move that amount in less than 20 seconds, even the fastest computer guru can't do that.

[Lontor]

This is not a new video, why bringing it up now? This happened many years ago as I am sure that I've watched it in the past before, also it looked staged, or this guy just want someone to get rich off him, because it all looks intentional.

[TokenTikas]

This was one simple misake and that cost him fortune, if you are streaming or not, always check your surrondings, double check before starting streams, and always use bigger delays when streaming so you could do something once you realize the mistake.

I watched the video and everything happened within a moment and there was nothing that could be done. If the situation is true then it’s really sad and not something easy to accept. We need to learn how to stay aware and protect our hard-earned money. If you try to imagine yourself in that person’s position, you will understand how painful and unfortunate it is. I just hope something like this doesn’t happen to anyone and that everyone stays careful and safe.

[tvplus006]

It’s staged, that wallet is a phantom wallet and its default seed phrase is a 12- word phrase and not 24-word although it doesn’t allows the import of a 24-word phrase...

Even if I were sitting in front of my monitor waiting for seed phrase, I still wouldn't have time to write it down, import it into a wallet and transfer the crypt to another wallet in just 14 seconds. As for the Phantom wallet, it allows you to import a 24-word seed phrase.

[Stalker22]

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It does feel staged, I don't know but the amount vanished, the seed phrase was visible.

Oh, this is 100% staged - no question.  People have been pulling these stunts forever, all to chase views and clicks.  Seriously, just think about it.  Nobody, not even the fastest so-called "hacker," is typing out 24 words, checking the checksum, loading a derivation path, then firing off a transaction in ten seconds. Thats not humanly possible. Obviously they used a script or they simply had the wallet already open on another device.

Dont believe everything you see on the internet.

[retreat]

I don't know, it looks like it was staged because there's no way anyone could do that quickly; it was only a few seconds, and the tokens were gone. Also, no one in their right mind would tell the live stream that it was their seed phrase, knowing that the wallet contained $2.5M USD. Someone with that much money sitting in their wallet would definitely make sure it was secure and free from the devices they use daily.

[coinlary]

My own question would be, why did he have it open in the first place? Looks staged truly. But I will have to agree that it takes a high level of stupidity to keep so much on a device that connects to the internet.

Not only that, the device is being used for all internet activities, including the one that requires access to read and record your entire screen, yet he had his seed phrase in a minimized window during an active live  screen-recording session
I'm sorry,  if he truly lost that  money, then that’s a classified level of stupidity

[Felicity_Tide]

This video is quite old... I can remember watching it before now.
Well, I just took my time to watch it over an over again, but I don't think it's something staged. This particular 46secs clip looks very much like a combination of clips that where all cut from the actual stream. If you noticed the 0:05 time, there was a quick transition. And also in the 0:08, 0:18, and 0:26 timeframe. This is just my opinion though, judging by the quick transition that proves that the long stream was probably edited before being posted.

Well, even if the whole thing looks staged like some of us believe, it still doesn't mean it is worth attempting just to see how swift the public can be. These are the types of silly mistakes that we talk about, and anyone not cautious enough can make them. Self custody comes with responsibilities.

[ColdLava40]

This was one simple misake and that cost him fortune, if you are streaming or not, always check your surrondings, double check before starting streams, and always use bigger delays when streaming so you could do something once you realize the mistake.

I've come past that video long ago.

It's just a lesson for many, but how many do you think would learn? Until it happens to someone, the would never understand why they have to keep anything that deals with their keys offline.

You can imagine how many sec it took the scammer to wipe his wallet. Keep your wallet offline, separate your devices for streaming from your personal life. Mistakes can be made, but must be avoided at all cost.

[lovesmayfamilis]

This is not a new video, why bringing it up now? This happened many years ago as I am sure that I've watched it in the past before, also it looked staged, or this guy just want someone to get rich off him, because it all looks intentional.

Yes, you're right, this story is two years old. I can't find the original on the video, but the amount in the OP's post significantly exceeds it. As the saying goes, "the further into the forest, the angrier the partisans are," meaning the more often this story is retold, the more significant the sum becomes. In five years, this streamer will buy the mainland as a multimillionaire and immediately lose it in six seconds.

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https://dtf.ru/comixzone/3206923-nichego-ne-obychnogo-prosto-u-strimera-ukrali-100-tysyach-v-pryamom-efire
https://icma.az/ru/news/kriptostrimer-poteryal-100-tysyach-v-pryamom-efire-video-podrobnosti-101516

Besides, I want to add that this whole story is pure prank. You can check on Twitter yourself or ask the AI for details. I don't have this social network, but here's what the AI(alice.yandex.ru) writes: "What was found in open sources

According to publications (for example, VGTimes dated 11/18/2024), the ogshoots streamer actually showed the seed phrase during the stream and later confirmed that it was a prank:

Sid, the phrase wasn't real.

The wallet with $100,000 was not affected.

The video with the "smashing of the keyboard" (a reaction to the loss of funds) has gone viral and has gained a million views in X.

Direct evidence from social media:

On X (Twitter), the streamer posted a post with the hashtag #prank and apologies for the prank, where he explained that he wanted to show how quickly funds can be stolen when a seed phrase is leaked.

On Twitch, in the description of the VOD dated 11/17/2024, a postscript was added: "This is a production. Do not store LED phrases on the screen!"."

https://x.com/i/birdwatch/n/1857767680566243341
https://vgtimes.ru/video/115605-strimer-yakoby-poteryal-100-tys.-v-kriptovalyute-i-razbil-klaviaturu.-okazalos-chto-eto-feyk.html

[NotATether]

What an idiot.

Why would he record and publish a video of it?

I have a hard time feeling any pity for him, he should've had better operational security practices for his money.

Yes, you're right, this story is two years old. I can't find the original on the video, but the amount in the OP's post significantly exceeds it. As the saying goes, "the further into the forest, the angrier the partisans are," meaning the more often this story is retold, the more significant the sum becomes. In five years, this streamer will buy the mainland as a multimillionaire and immediately lose it in six seconds.

So I guess the story resurfaced on social media only so that people can engagement farm it some more and earn some revenue.

I'm tired boss.

[tech30338]

Seems like a click bait for views and sympathy so that you will be able to watch him because of the feeling that they have lost a lot of money.
Streamers nowadays will do anything to get lots of views and subscribers, if he is an experience trader and a crypto streamers for sure he knows the drill he might just used a new wallet pretends that he lost
a lots of funds.
Because it looks funny at the same time viewers are curious how much he had lost, they are now going to watch the videos of the streamer, the bad thing is people might get annoyed with him after watching the video and learn its a prank.

[Faisal2202]

Besides, I want to add that this whole story is pure prank. You can check on Twitter yourself or ask the AI for details. I don't have this social network, but here's what the AI(alice.yandex.ru) writes: "What was found in open sources

Thanks for confirming it. I should have double-checked everything before trusting it. Now that I have read your post and also searched on my own, I have read several posts on Reddit, Twitter, and even on Binance News, and everyone said the seed phrase was fake. Yes, he did not lose $2.5 million, but around $100k, and in some posts they wrote that he lost 3.2 million TWD tokens, while all of that was fake. I visited his real account on X, and even on the video itself there was a tag by X, maybe, saying that the seed phrase was fake and was not even working.

I did not want to try the seed phrase myself. Do you think it is wise to check it manually? Anyway, I have not checked it, but I did try to find some sites that could verify it, and I could not find anything useful.

Well, I think it is time to lock the thread because the reality is completely different. I want to apologize for wasting everyone's time, and also thank the members who gave their valuable insights.

Even if the story turned out to be fake, the lesson is still valid. We should always protect our seed phrase and never expose sensitive wallet information carelessly.