🚨 BREAKING: French Bank Hack - $133M Crypto Theft 🚨
🇫🇷 Bank: Crédit Mutuel Arkéa ($235B+ assets)
💰 Loss: $133M+ (ZachXBT estimate, could be higher with OTC)
📅 Date: Nov 1-2, 2026
📊 WHAT HAPPENED:
• $108.8M USDC withdrawn from Kraken, Crypto.com, OKX in 21 hours
• Funds moved to 15 wallets
• Attacker swapped USDC → ETH → Monero (XMR) via instant exchanges
• Additional $27M found later - Total $133M+
🔍 Source: On-chain investigator ZachXBT
🏦 Bank Response (to CoinDesk):
"This incident has no financial consequences for our clients. Their interests are fully protected."
- Temporarily suspended transactions
- Notified authorities
- Did NOT disclose exact amount
✅ Confirmed: Crypto.com blocked linked funds
⚠️ Only $3.7M USDC + $1.1M USDT frozen so far
📉 CONTEXT:
3rd major hack in 1 week after:
• Binance $6.3B (FBI says North Korea)
• Mercado Bitcoin
• BTCPay Server
❌ NOT Lazarus Group this time - ZachXBT says different laundering pattern
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