more like hundreds of thousands of dollars, and unlike ransomware, the FBI and other law enforcement does not care, so it goes under the radar especially when less famous channels are hacked.
The LTT hacker ran the classic fake Elon Musk crypto livestream that scammers have been rehashing for years. It probably says something about the kind of person who reveres Musk that they're apparently known to be marks who will easily fall for the wallet inspector routine.