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[Wu Blockchain News] ZachXBT says $133M theft target is French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa On-chain inv...

Open the sourceReported by Telegram, t.me, 4 November 2026, by wublockchainenglish
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ZachXBT identified French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, which holds roughly $235 billion in assets, as the entity behind a crypto theft exceeding $133 million. The suspected attacker withdrew funds in USDC and USDT, swapped them into ETH and privacy coin XMR, and moved assets across several blockchains. The disclosure matters because it ties one of the larger recent exchange-account breaches to a major regulated European bank rather than a crypto-native firm. What to watch next is whether Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirms the loss and how much of the swapped ETH and XMR can be traced or recovered.

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