• Cuban suggested that the hackers might have been monitoring his activity, waiting for an opportune moment to strike.
• The wallet had remained inactive for approximately five months before this discovery.

Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, Mark Cuban, fell victim to a suspected hack that saw nearly $900,000 worth of cryptocurrency drained from one of his dormant wallets.

The incident came to light on 15 September when an independent blockchain investigator flagged unusual activity within one of Cuban’s crypto wallets. The wallet had remained inactive for approximately five months before this discovery.

Lmao, did Mark Cuban’s wallet just get drained?

Wallet inactive for 160 days and all assets just moved pic.twitter.com/vWnMZFyHB5

— Wazz (@WazzCrypto) September 15, 2023

Etherscan’s transaction history revealed that the wallet quickly withdrew multiple batches of assets, including USD Coin [USDC], Tether [USDT], and Lido Staked Ether [stETH], all within a 10-minute window.

Adding complexity to the situation, it also withdrew an additional $2 million worth of USDC and transferred it to a different wallet. Initially, this sparked suspicions that Cuban might have been reshuffling his assets.

Assets disappear from Mark Cuban’s dormant wallet

However, Cuban later confirmed to DL News that he had logged into

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