South Korea Tax Service Leaks Seed Phrases, Loses $4.8M in Seized Crypto

The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea turned a routine enforcement victory into a historic operational failure this week, leaking private keys in a press release that resulted in the theft of $4.8 million in seized assets. The agency published unredacted high-resolution photos of hardware wallets containing a visible seed phrase leak, allowing opportunistic on-chain actors to drain 4 million PRTG Tokens remot…