{
 "tag": "awbtc",
 "name": "Awbtc",
 "group": "Other",
 "incidents": [
  {
   "slug": "whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026",
   "title": "Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026",
   "json": "https://drains.watch/i/whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026.json",
   "status": "live",
   "severity": "critical",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "verification": "verified",
   "chains": [
    "ethereum"
   ],
   "method": null,
   "product": "Unidentified Ethereum whale wallet",
   "tags": [
    "ethereum",
    "whale",
    "phishing",
    "aave",
    "awbtc",
    "peckshield",
    "repeat-victim"
   ],
   "amountUsd": 25600000,
   "victims": 1,
   "startedAt": "2026-08-12",
   "closedAt": null,
   "updatedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
   "summary": "On 12 August 2026 an unidentified whale lost about $25.6M, including about $6.3M in aWBTC, $5.1M in DAI, $4.7M in WBTC and $2.6M in ETH, according to PeckShield. Analyst Specter called it a phishing attack and PeckShield called it a hack; the exact method has not been published. The attacker swapped the funds into DAI and ETH across four addresses. The same wallet lost about $24.2M through malicious token approvals in September 2023."
  }
 ],
 "changes": [
  {
   "incident": "whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026",
   "incidentTitle": "Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023",
   "severity": "critical",
   "status": "live",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2026-08-13",
   "title": "PeckShield reported the theft and said the stolen aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH were swapped into DAI and ETH and split across four addresses.",
   "sourceUrl": "https://u.today/crypto-hack-drains-256-million-from-unknown-victims",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026"
  },
  {
   "incident": "whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026",
   "incidentTitle": "Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023",
   "severity": "critical",
   "status": "live",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2026-08-13",
   "title": "Specter described the theft as phishing; the same wallet had lost about $24.2M to malicious token approvals in September 2023.",
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.tronweekly.com/phishing-attack-drains-crypto-whale-wallet/",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026"
  },
  {
   "incident": "whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026",
   "incidentTitle": "Whale drained of $25.6M in aWBTC, DAI, WBTC and ETH; same wallet lost $24M to phishing in 2023",
   "severity": "critical",
   "status": "live",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2026-08-12",
   "title": "The whale's wallet was drained of about $25.6M in assets.",
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.tronweekly.com/phishing-attack-drains-crypto-whale-wallet/",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/whale-wallet-25m-drain-aug-2026"
  }
 ]
}