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ah yes, i see that.

Also, it seems like they didn't even take all the utxos at a single address:

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I think Praveen is on the right track there. The attacker probably used some block explorer API and didn’t think that any address would have so many UTXOs.

Also, it would have been way harder for people to identify this as an attack if the attacker had used a different recipient address for each sweep.

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201 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 30 Jul

It could also still be an RNG problem ... if the reports of partial sweeps are wrong or the thief doesn't feel comfortable stealing everything in an individual's wallet (which would be surprising) or, after your edit, taking only some utxos is a bug in the attack.

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241 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 30 Jul

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Beat me to it.

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from lopp:

I had someone contact me about this earlier today and the one thing they noted is that their full wallet balance was not swept; it was only a handful of UTXOs that were swept. I told them I suspected that their seed was not compromised, but rather something they did had compromised individual private keys.
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