Odaily Planet Daily News Ivan Bianco is a YouTuber in Brazil who focuses on blockchain games and runs the Fraternidade Crypto channel. This week, nearly $60,000 worth of cryptocurrency and a batch of NFTs were stolen when he accidentally leaked his crypto wallet's seed phrase during a livestream.
During the live broadcast, Bianco opened a file that recorded his seed phrase, which allowed an unknown person to take control of his wallet and steal its funds. Fraternidade Crypto has around 34,000 subscribers on YouTube, with more than 2.2 million views of all videos since 2017.
Bianco reported the incident to the police after losing the funds. Bianco said he was contacted on Discord by an unidentified man after the funds were stolen. The anonymous person stated that he was a money stealer, "I screwed up here, and I know what I did is terrible" before hanging up and walking away. After the call, the wallet that stole most of the funds returned approximately $50,000 worth of crypto assets to Bianco. (Decrypt)