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SecurityGopax halted trading after an email claiming a hack. A freeze is not a confirmed theft.
Gopax halted withdrawals and trading on 6 November after an email from people claiming to have broken in. The exchange said the threat was not verified and that no assets had been lost. Hot-wallet coins were being moved offline.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
SecurityChainalysis says password hashes and live tokens were exposed. The tracing files were not.
Chainalysis’s 6 November note says know-your-transaction and address screening are being restored in phases. Reactor and Data Solutions are still down. Password hashes and live tokens for every user were exposed.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
SecurityBTCPay says old servers were drained. A self-hosted wallet is still a hot wallet.
BTCPay’s 2 November blog says bitcoin and litecoin were taken from hot wallets on version 2.4.1 and older. That is the flaw fixed in 2.4.2, used another way. An old server needs a fresh machine and a new wallet.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
SecurityMercado Bitcoin says customers will not lose. The hot wallet did.
Mercado Bitcoin’s later FAQ puts the assets involved at about $36.3 million, with more than $15 million blocked. From 9 November the site is due to open for viewing. Withdrawals stay off.EasyCryptoGuides · · 6 min read
Securityb14g says 97 million CORE left its staking contracts. The bitcoin stayed locked.
At 09:29 UTC on 31 October 2026 about 97 million CORE staked through b14g was withdrawn without permission. A later post says the recovered pile goes back within five to seven days, about 70% of each stake. The rest is a promise against future revenue.EasyCryptoGuides · · 7 min read
SecurityPolymarket says it will repay about $3.9 million. A script on the site used open sessions.
Polymarket halted trading on 29 October 2026 after a script on its site used open sessions to sell positions and move funds. Its post-mortem puts the repayment at about $3.9 million.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
SecurityBinance puts the hot-wallet loss near $6.3 billion. Covering it is a company promise.
Binance says the zero-knowledge proof for the 4 November snapshot is ready, and that a user may still have to wait before running it. Further withdrawal batches are opening. The 98% figure did not move.EasyCryptoGuides · · 18 min read
SecurityzkLink stopped Nova after a bridge exploit. A halt is not a refund.
On 29 October 2026 zkLink suspended block production on Nova and disabled withdrawals after an attack on its Arbitrator contracts on Ethereum and Optimism. The project published no loss figure and no cause beyond the contract it named.EasyCryptoGuides · · 5 min readSecurityHumanode says 12.8 million eHMND was taken. Native HMND was not.
At 15:00 UTC on 28 October 2026 an attacker took 12,773,243.03 eHMND from 436 accounts on Humanode’s contract environment. The project fixed that path in about 40 minutes and said every owner will be repaid in eHMND.EasyCryptoGuides · · 5 min read
SecurityBloom says a trading bot lost 9,408 SOL. A bot that can send is a hot wallet.
On 26 October 2026 Bloom said a flaw in a third-party module drained about 9,408 SOL from 49 addresses belonging to nine users. It took the bot offline and promised to repay those users in full.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
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