This move really blew my mind. The Korean National Tax Service initially wanted to showcase their tax investigation achievements prominently, but ended up directly including someone's 24 mnemonic words in the news image without even cropping or editing.
Everyone who understands knows—once the mnemonic words are exposed, the wallet is essentially left wide open. Netizens quickly transferred gas fees and immediately moved all tokens worth nearly $4.8 million out. No hackers, no vulnerabilities, no technical exploits—just the authorities themselves holding the key to the vault and publicly displaying it. This is the harshest reality of the decentralized world: no one can help you recover or freeze your assets once they’re sent out; it’s a done deal. This isn’t just a news illustration; it’s the most expensive public execution photo in crypto history.
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This move really blew my mind. The Korean National Tax Service initially wanted to showcase their tax investigation achievements prominently, but ended up directly including someone's 24 mnemonic words in the news image without even cropping or editing.
Everyone who understands knows—once the mnemonic words are exposed, the wallet is essentially left wide open.
Netizens quickly transferred gas fees and immediately moved all tokens worth nearly $4.8 million out.
No hackers, no vulnerabilities, no technical exploits—just the authorities themselves holding the key to the vault and publicly displaying it.
This is the harshest reality of the decentralized world: no one can help you recover or freeze your assets once they’re sent out; it’s a done deal.
This isn’t just a news illustration; it’s the most expensive public execution photo in crypto history.