Duelbits Goes Offline After $7M Hot-Wallet Hack
The suspected private-key compromise spanned four blockchains, while about $6M in stolen assets remains consolidated in a single Ethereum address.
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The suspected private-key compromise spanned four blockchains, while about $6M in stolen assets remains consolidated in a single Ethereum address.
The 5,280 ETH is already in motion, but the lasting damage from a wallet exploit is rarely the theft itself, with secondary fallout that can stretch for months after the coins leave.
A seven-year-old flaw in XRP Ledger's signature library would have let an attacker derive a private key from as few as five signed transactions, putting wallets at risk before maintainers patched it.
The biggest story isn't the 80% drawdown — it's the pattern: stolen keys, not flawed code, drove most of 2026's largest crypto losses, and H just became the freshest data point.