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BITCOIN HOLDER LOSES $750K AFTER GOOGLE ACCOUNT HACKA longtime Bitcoin holder reportedly lost around
$750,000 in BTC less than 12 hours after moving it to a major Australian exchange.
Hackers had allegedly controlled his
Google account for months, including access to his email and cloud-backed Google Authenticator data.
They waited.
The moment he deposited BTC onto the exchange, they accessed the account and
withdrew everything.
The victim reportedly woke up at 3 a.m. to a notification saying the withdrawal had been approved.
Big takeaway:
disable cloud backup for Google Authenticator if you don’t want your Google account becoming another single point of failure.
For stronger protection, use
hardware security keys like YubiKey — ideally two, so you have a backup.
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