ZachXBT: A Canadian hacker impersonated Coinbase customer service and stole over $2 million within a year

According to ZachXBT, a Canadian hacker named Haby (Havard) has impersonated Coinbase customer service to carry out social engineering scams, stealing over $2 million in crypto assets in the past year.

The hacker has squandered the funds on rare social media usernames, nightclub expenses, and gambling. Investigations show that Haby has recently been purchasing expensive Telegram usernames frequently and deleted his recent accounts two days ago. Through open-source intelligence analysis of his social media story posts, investigators determined that Haby is located in Abbotsford, near Vancouver, Canada.

ZachXBT stated that although Canadian law enforcement may be aware of Haby's existence, there are rarely prosecutions for such cyber threat actors in the region.