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Fortune
Ben Weiss

FTX customers can’t catch a break: Hackers are targeting those trying to recoup funds from bankrupt crypto exchange

Sam Bankman-Fried leaves a courthouse in NYC. (Credit: Yuki Iwamura—Bloomberg/ Getty Images)

FTX customers are already out almost $9 billion after the crypto exchange, once valued at $32 billion, collapsed in November and soon entered bankruptcy proceedings. And now, some hackers are adding insult to injury by sending these customers fake emails in an attempt to snatch whatever crypto they have left.

ZachXBT, a well-known, pseudonymous revealer of crypto scams, posted on X/Twitter that one of his friends received an email that said they were “an eligible client to begin withdrawing digital assets” from FTX.

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