🚨Attention BTC enthusiasts! Atomic Wallet, a non-custodial decentralized wallet, is facing a class action lawsuit from 50 Russian clients who lost a total of $12 million in a recent $100 million exploit. The North Korean Lazarus Group is suspected, but there might be Ukrainian involvement too. 🕵️‍♂️

The victims are working with German lawyer Max Gutbrod and Moscow firm Destra Legal co-founder Boris Feldman to recover their lost assets. They claim Atomic Wallet didn't inform clients about the hack or report it to the police. 🚔

Cryptocurrency usage has spiked in Russia and Ukraine since the military conflict began in February last year. Feldman says many people left the country and use cryptocurrencies to transfer and store funds. 💸

Atomic Wallet wasn't very transparent with customers after the attack, only providing an update two weeks later and claiming less than 0.1% of clients were affected. Some users lost millions worth of digital assets, and one Twitter user claimed to have lost over 1 BTC. 😱

Hackers used Russian crypto exchange Garantex, sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC, to launder the stolen funds, and also sent millions of stolen XRP tokens to centralized exchanges like Binance, Huobi, and KuCoin. Stay tuned for more updates on this ongoing saga! 🍿