Classified News

🚨 JUST IN: Fragment has updated their mint prices on usernames. The price of 4L usernames is now fixed at $8,000 (~5,485 TON), previously 5,050 TON. Generic usernames increased to 549 TON (≈$800), while non-generic usernames rose to 110 TON (≈$160). @Classified

🚨 JUST IN: Tether has launched USAT, a federally regulated dollar backed stablecoin. USAT is a dollar-backed stablecoin regulated in the U.S. and issued by Tether. Despite this, it remains centralized, with the company freezing over $3.3B in user funds since 2023. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: Racks has admitted to scamming and has pocketed the rest of the money. Several people have come forward with proof that they were ignored or paid far less than promised, even being forced to send a voice message and only paying egirls. This behavior is consistent with him paying egirls for camshows and the poor character he comes from, having been banned on OGU for pulling back Discord accounts and renting both his chat and channel @'s from Cold. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: Hello everyone, it has come to my attention that racks has exit scammed the $200k prize pool. Only $10k was paid out, with $190k seemingly kept. He changed the giveaway rules, ignored participants, and claimed he was spammed. Not surprising, as he was banned last year for pulling back early supporters, and that every single username he has comes rented. Rack's Wallet: Here @Classified

⚠ UPDATE: Threat actor John Lick is currently being investigated by U.S. Marshals and the FBI. ZachXBT has stated that authorities are looking into the incident with threat actor John Lick, with both the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets and the U.S. Marshals Service involved. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: One of the most expensive Telegram handle has just been bought by threat actor John. The Telegram handle @devil, which previously sold for $1.3M along with @drug, has both been acquired by John who appears to be rapidly spending his money ahead of an anticipated arrest. @Classified

⚠ BREAKING: Notorious fraudster @John was able to steal $40M+ in crypto by backdooring his own fathers company. Per ZachXBT, John Daghita (Lick) stole over $40M from U.S. government crypto wallets through CMDSS, a company owned by his father that works with the U.S. Marshals Service on handling seized cryptocurrency. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: ZachXBT has called out OpenAI’s team for poor account security that led to $3.4M in user funds being rugpulled. ZachXBT revealed details about the 2024 Twitter hack used to promote an OpenAI memecoin, compromising multiple accounts belonging to OpenAI’s team, including its official news account, an incident that went largely unnoticed. @Classified

⚠ BREAKING: ZachXBT dropped an investigation exposing notorious fraudster John Lick after he was caught flexing over $20M yesterday. During a heated argument with an individual known as Dritan, John reportedly moved about $23M in stolen funds, with the exchange being recorded by witnesses in the call. Several wallet addresses were later leaked, including one related to a crypto hack involving the U.S. government in March 2024. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: SagaXYZ has suffered an exploit resulting in a $7M loss. The attacker swapped ~$6M in USDC and bridged the stolen funds to Ethereum. The Saga team is currently investigating and suspects the breach could have resulted from a private key compromise. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: A notorious fraudster lost $80k after being scammed by a 15 year old fake middleman. A 15 year old scammer impersonating a Chinese middleman known as @fuhao was able to steal Plush Pepe #1205 valued at 50k TON (~$78k). The original owner @peep is offering 1 BTC for any info leading to the scammer’s capture. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: A crypto whale was drained out of $3M in Ethereum assets after approving a malicious contract. A single victim was instantly drained after approving a malicious contract, with $3M in stolen XAUt and SLVon quickly split between two wallets and laundered through 1inch. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: Makina Finance has suffered an exploit resulting in a loss of ~$4.13M. An attacker drained 1,299 ETH (~$4.13M) from Makina Finance by exploiting its USD/USDC pool on Ethereum. The stolen funds were captured by an MEV builder and are currently sitting in two wallets holding ~$3.3M and ~$880K. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: BTCC Exchange is locking user accounts and wiping funds after users make profits. Multiple users report that BTCC Exchange is locking accounts after users make profits, with one inactive trading account holding over $500k cleared without explanation, and over $2M withheld as the platform actively ignores users while pushing promotions to attract new ones. @Classified

JUST IN: Discord has started to launch age verification groups starting in UK and Australia. Users are required to complete age verification under the Online Safety Act 2023. While initially introduced in the UK and Australia the measures are now being expanded beyond these regions. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: A crypto whale lost $6.7M ETH after a private key leak. The stolen funds were laundered through privacy tools, with 1,899 ETH (~$6.2M) bridged to Bitcoin and sent to the Wasabi mixer, and the remaining 159 ETH (~$520k) deposited into Tornado Cash. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: BitcoinVN froze a suspicious transaction linked to the $282M heist Crypto recovery experts traced the wallet compromised from Trezor support impersonation and alerted the instant swap exchange BitcoinVN, freezing over $1M in associated funds. They are currently attempting to reach the original owner to return the funds. @Classified

⚠ BREAKING: Per ZachXBT, on January 10, 2026, a victim lost over $282M in LTC and BTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam. Following the theft, the stolen LTC and BTC were funneled into Monero through multiple instant exchanges, likely fueling last week’s surge in XMR price. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: A crypto whale lost $509k in USDT after copying and pasting the wrong address. The whale had previously moved over $1M to an address ending in D3E6F. After returning roughly 30 days later, they copied a poisoned look-alike from their transaction history ending in F3E6F, which closely mimicked the original and led to the funds being sent to the attacker. @Classified

⚠ JUST IN: A Chinese whale was scammed out of $80k after falling for a fake middleman. GIFTS LOST:

🎁 Plush Pepe #990

🎁 Plush Pepe #2816

🎁 Plush Pepe #1231

A Chinese investor was scammed out of 3 Plush Pepes worth 47k TON (~$80,840) after being impersonated by a fake middleman. This scam occurred during a surge in Telegram gift activity and high value Plush Pepe sales. @Classified