Bitcoin cold-wallet attack hits 4,500 addresses, losses near $89M

A coordinated campaign exploiting compromised hardware wallets or seed phrase leaks has drained funds across thousands of self-custody accounts—a rare large-scale breach of offline storage that underscores the risk even supposedly air-gapped setups face if the seed phrase itself is exposed before it ever touches the chain.

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