Bitcoin holder loses 80 BTC to drainer after buying Ledger from reseller

An investor has lost an entire balance of 80 BTC after moving the assets onto a Ledger hardware wallet purchased from a reseller named CryptoBillis, according to on-chain tracking account Lookonchain. Transaction records indicate that the entire sum was transferred to a destination labeled "Ledger Drainer" roughly nine hours before the alert.^[1][2]

Lookonchain noted that the owner had acquired the 80 BTC four months earlier for approximately $5.2 million, paying an average price of around $65,000 per coin, and held roughly $1.38 million in unrealized profit prior to the incident. On-chain transaction logs shared by Lookonchain and Cointelegraph show that 80 BTC worth $6.72 million was deposited into the victim's address one week before the theft, before the full 80 BTC—valued at $6.59 million at the time of the drain—was routed into the drainer address.^[1][2]

Reporting on the theft, Crypto Briefing emphasized that the episode underscores the critical importance of purchasing hardware wallets directly from official sources to safeguard digital assets.^[3]