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Loss of approximately $750,000 in BTC: Long-term Bitcoin holder's Google account compromised

2026-08-15 17:59
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that a long-term Bitcoin holder had all assets withdrawn from their account within less than 12 hours of transferring BTC to a major Australian exchange. According to a friend of the holder, hackers had compromised their Google account for approximately 3 months, obtaining their email and Google Authenticator credentials backed up to the cloud, and then waited for them to deposit BTC into the exchange. The exchange identified the hacker as the account owner and approved the withdrawal, with the holder receiving a withdrawal approval notification at 3 AM. The post recommends disabling cloud backup for Google Authenticator and using hardware security keys such as YubiKey; setting up two keys can serve as a backup in case one is lost.