Tag: Hacks
Maya Protocol halted its MAYAChain network after an attacker drained roughly $1.7 million using six chained software bugs.
The attacker withdrew 48.87 million CACAO and moved about 20.83 BTC worth approximately $1.34 million off-chain.
CACAO fell nearly 89% from around $0.115 to a low of $0.013 before partial recovery.
Founder AaluxxMyth confirmed the incident and said the team is working to fix the issues and recover fully.
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Harmony Confirms Unauthorized Mint of 4 Billion ONE Tokens as Price Crashes Over 30%
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Harmony confirmed an exploit that allowed unauthorized minting of approximately 4 billion ONE tokens, equal to about 26% of the existing supply.
ONE price dropped as much as 40% in Asian trading, briefly hitting an all-time low near $0.00057 before recovering partially.
Roughly 2.8 billion newly minted tokens moved to exchanges; the team is coordinating freezes and evaluating a potential chain rollback.
Harmony confirmed on Wednesday that...
Coldcard Firmware Flaw Enables Over $116 Million Bitcoin Theft in Largest Hardware Wallet Exploit
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Attackers exploited a March 2021 firmware bug in Coldcard wallets to drain approximately 1,816 BTC (~$116 million) across multiple waves starting July 30, 2026.
The vulnerability cut effective entropy to as low as 40 bits on older models, enabling remote brute-force of seeds without physical access.
Coinkite released emergency firmware fixes, but existing seeds remain vulnerable and require full migration to new wallets.
The incident ranks...
Coldcard Hardware Wallet Losses Approach $130 Million as Galaxy Flags Ongoing Multi-Attacker Exploit
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Galaxy Research has high confidence that 1,596 BTC (over $100 million) was stolen from roughly 7,300 addresses across three confirmed attack waves plus 14 smaller incidents.
Including a suspected fourth wave would raise the total to about 2,055 BTC, or roughly $130 million.
At least 15 separate attackers are now exploiting the vulnerability; 90% of stolen coins have not moved.
Coinkite has released emergency firmware updates and urged users...
Taiko Halts Ethereum L2 Block Production After $1.7 Million Bridge Exploit
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Taiko confirmed compromise of its chain state verification mechanism, rendering bridge security assumptions unreliable.
Attacker drained approximately $1.7 million from the ERC20 Vault on Ethereum via forged proofs.
Project halted all block production and urged users to withdraw funds from all bridges immediately.
TAIKO token dived around 10% following the incident.
Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Taiko has taken its...


