Reddit user misused the Ledger extension and stole about 15,000 XRP

BlockBeats news: on March 28, Reddit user 'Leannekera' posted that she had lost 14800 XRP after using the so-called Ledger extension on Chrome.

According to the article, after being diagnosed as & NBSP; After Covid - 19, she is now in quarantine at home, but was devastated to learn of the theft of crypto assets and has now filed a report with Ripple, the fbi and the local anti-fraud police. The victims in the article revealed her account: rfSYXEwYre349J3tBUhPvcawU5F2EGVN9a; In addition, also made public the hacker XRP account: r9sGt5vtxFcSfK2xwX3HxAMWTPTHo1ZLEg; At present, the stolen XRP has been transferred to the address: rwpMvfxoodXggJ1g4qv6MWAPQqWDwQyHUW, have been stored and the address XRP worth more than $2.5 million.

Leannekera's case is not unique. A few days ago, XRP tracking browser xrplorer forensics tweeted a warning that more than 200,000 XRP had been stolen in the past month. The agency later gave a further update, saying that nearly 1.4 million were stolen.The main practice is also to use the fake Ledger Live Google extension to steal users' cryptocurrency after successfully stealing their backup mnemonics.

Therefore, for encrypted users, it is not easy to download the plug-in, unless you are 100% sure of its origin, to ensure the credibility of the transaction. & have spent & have spent

The original link: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/fqjyy3/please_beware_14000_xrp_stolen_from_ledger/

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