The Boating Accident

Pirates · Hack or exploit

COLDCARD boarded by pirates

Artist's impression. Not to scale.

A firmware bug bypassed the hardware random number generator during key generation, weakening seeds to as little as 40 bits. Attackers brute-forced them and drained funds in four waves.

Sources

  1. DeFiLlama

Logged . Corrections are printed, not silently fixed.

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