Key Highlights A compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop triggered unauthorized hot wallet withdrawals at Binance, leading to approximately $3 billion in frozen funds. Security firm Blockaid detected unusual outflows in under two minutes and traced the attack mechanism to malicious Ethereum EIP-7702 delegations. Blockaid CEO Ido Ben-Natan identified the incident as a hijacking of signing infrastructure ...
Key Highlights: Attackers drained between $38 million and $49 million from Mercado Bitcoin’s hot wallets and customer deposit addresses across more than 10 blockchains via a signing-based breach. Following the immediate blacklisting of over $11 million by stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle, the perpetrators swapped an estimated $10.55 million to $11.9 million of the stolen ...
Key Highlights: Binance suspended user withdrawals following an overnight cyberattack targeting one of its hot wallets. Initial unconfirmed estimates indicate that up to $5.7 billion in cryptocurrency assets may have been compromised during the security incident. Binance co-founder He Yi confirmed that withdrawal transactions will remain halted until the security environment is completely verified. Binance ...
Key Highlights Bitget exchange detected unauthorized transfers from hot wallets at 18:31 UTC on September 24, with the breach extending to the warm-wallet layer. Loss containment is confirmed and no further unauthorized transfers are possible, though the specific intrusion method remains under active investigation. A full technical report will be released once the investigation is ...
Key Highlights Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from hot wallets totaling approximately $351.6 million on September 24, 2026, at 18:31 UTC. Cold wallets remain secure and the loss is fully covered by Bitget’s User Protection Fund, which holds over $464 million in assets. Withdrawals are temporarily suspended as a precaution; deposits and trading continue ...