Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
COINDESK · NEW YORK — The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill.
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- 02 November 2026 · 05:18 UTC
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