Whale loses $24 million worth of ethereum to a phisher. This might be the largest amount phished from a single person

Wallet loses $24.2 million worth of crypto, most of them in LSDs including 4851 reth and 9579 steth.

The transaction link in which the whale gets drained of his staked ether - https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcbe7b32e62c7d931a28f747bba3a0afa7da95169fcf380ac2f7d54f3a2f77913

The first question we will all have is "how did this happen?"

The victim gives an approval to the scammer by signing increase allowance transactions through this transaction - https://etherscan.io/tx/0xbb4fe89c03d8321c5bfed612fb76f0756ac7e99c1efaf7c4d99d99f850d4de53

This isn't the first time the phisher has successfully phished victims, they have a long list if previous victims. One of the scammers address is 0x4c10a462CD1e639Da8A062aE8a33a23401120ab1 which is associated with atleast 10 crypto phishing sites.

Source - https://twitter.com/realScamSniffer/status/1699605356740305198?t=sYFCsnjGUbL-LixPE1iDeA&s=19