Coldcard Supply-Chain Attack Drains 1,000+ BTC Wallets, $71M Lost
The figure is roughly twice the early read on the incident and lands Coldcard inside a growing supply-chain risk tier no Bitcoin custodian can ignore.
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The figure is roughly twice the early read on the incident and lands Coldcard inside a growing supply-chain risk tier no Bitcoin custodian can ignore.
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Nearly 1,200 addresses and 1,000 BTC later, the incident has crossed from isolated phishing to a coordinated drain, putting self-custody users on notice about supply-chain risk in hardware wallets.
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