Unknown assailants stole from a Moscow resident 6 BTC and 70 ETH worth about 11.2 million rubles, according to the local police.<\/p>\n
In November, the victim accessed the personal account on blockchain.com via a QR code, but found that all funds had disappeared from his account.<\/p>\n
Subsequently it emerged that the Russian had navigated to a phishing clone of the site.<\/p>\n
The police have opened a preliminary investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n
Earlier, MetaMask users were warned about scammers who steal funds through fake Ethereum wallets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unknown assailants stole from a Moscow resident 6 BTC and 70 ETH worth about 11.2 million rubles, according to the local police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[996,1154],"class_list":["post-32930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-com","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"6","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32932,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32930\/revisions\/32932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}