Damn, just found out that South Korea's tax agency had a leak of their own crypto wallet information. So on February 26th, they issued a press release about arresting tax delinquents, but in the photo they released, it clearly shows a Ledger wallet along with the handwritten mnemonic phrase. No blurring, no censoring, everything is visible.



The result? About $4.8 million just gone like that. According to blockchain data, on the morning of the 27th, 4 million PRTG tokens were transferred from that wallet to an anonymous address. So basically, bad actors took advantage of this because their mnemonic phrase was already exposed.

What's worse, this shows that their tax department has no understanding of basic security. How can a mnemonic phrase leak in an official press release? This isn't just a mistake, but a huge loss for the country. Many critics are right, this should never have happened at all.
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