On-chain analyst Specter traced more than $86 million drained from hundreds of Ledger hardware-wallet users across Ethereum, TRON and Bitcoin. With the cause unconfirmed, holders cannot yet tell whether moving coins to a new device would help at all.
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Bitget lost about $387.5 million to forged withdrawals from its wallet system, more than half of September's $742 million in crypto thefts. Most of Liquid Network's loss was handed back, so what stayed stolen sits mainly with one exchange's withdrawal infrastructure.
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Coinkite's Coldcard firmware skipped its hardware random number generator, letting attackers brute-force seeds and drain over $100 million in bitcoin. Liquid's later $320 million drain adds node software to the code a bitcoin holder has to trust.
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The wallets held. The customer list did not: 39,798 names, phone numbers and shipping addresses, taken through commerce plumbing nobody threat-models.
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The Crypto Recovery Trust, a Wyoming entity advised by Steptoe LLP, now controls coins worth about $3.5m at the exploit's implied price, against more than $100m that COLDCARD holders lost from July 30, 2026.
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Core Lightning says the machine-written reports found real flaws in its payments software. It is holding the count and severity for at least two weeks, leaving node operators to decide what to do with a hazard whose size is still private.
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Harmony blames state actors and AI agents for shutting the layer-1 it launched in 2019, and the money set aside to pay validators to power down is worth more than everything left locked on the chain it closes.
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A 2021 seed flaw cut entropy from 128 bits to about 40, so no attacker needed to touch the hardware. Every seed generated before July 2026 now has to be replaced.
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