ChainCatcher, citing monitoring data from Scam Sniffer, reported that an Ethereum user lost LINK tokens worth $167,342 after signing a phishing approval tied to Permit2. The incident involved a malicious authorization on Ethereum, and the approval was signed on Aug. 18, 2025. No other details about the wallet, counterparty, or recovery were disclosed in the source. The report identifies the loss amount, the affected asset as LINK, the network as Ethereum, and the phishing vector as a Permit2-related approval. Scam Sniffer was the named source for the monitoring, while ChainCatcher carried the report as a market analysis newsflash.
According to ChainCatcher, citing monitoring by Scam Sniffer, an Ethereum user lost LINK tokens worth $167,342 after signing a phishing approval related to Permit2.
The approval was signed on Aug. 18, 2025.
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