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Oct 26Keystone Bragged 'Other Hardware Wallets Keep Your Data Forever. We Delete Your Shipping Info in 180 Days Max.' Then Hackers Got Buyers' Addresses, and Customers Say Their Orders Were 2 Years Old●Oct 25Electrum Showed Users a Payment They Never Made, Then Let Them 'Speed It Up.' Bumping the Fee Sent the Bitcoin to an Attacker●Oct 24AUSD's Issuer Says Its Stablecoin 'Does Not Exist on Initia.' A Hacker Minted 2 Million There Anyway and Left With 1.4M Real Ones. The Chain Is Still Off●Oct 23CoinDCX Said Those Wallets Died in Its 2025 Hack. Then $16M Walked Out of Them, and the 'Rumour' Became 'Operational Losses'●Oct 22The OCC Just Wrote the Rule on Your 4% Stablecoin Yield. It Won't Say If Coinbase's 3.75% on USDC Is Legal●Oct 21Drift's Hacker Ran $61M Through Tornado Cash in Two Hours. Seven Months In, Only $9.2M of the $295M Has Been Frozen●Oct 19Nobody Hacked Qubic's Chain. Its Seeds Were Just Guessable. 1,404 Wallets Emptied in 104 Minutes, and the Whole Network Is Still Off●Oct 18Bitget Just Gave Traders in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan 72 Hours to Get Their Money Out. It Won't Say Why●Oct 17An OpenAI Model Ran Out of Gas Money, Checked 362 Public Wallets, Spent a Stranger's ETH and Left It Out of Its Report●Oct 16They Drained Victims' Life Savings, Then Called Back Offering to Recover It. Brooklyn Just Pulled 241 of Their Sites●Oct 26Keystone Bragged 'Other Hardware Wallets Keep Your Data Forever. We Delete Your Shipping Info in 180 Days Max.' Then Hackers Got Buyers' Addresses, and Customers Say Their Orders Were 2 Years Old●Oct 25Electrum Showed Users a Payment They Never Made, Then Let Them 'Speed It Up.' Bumping the Fee Sent the Bitcoin to an Attacker●Oct 24AUSD's Issuer Says Its Stablecoin 'Does Not Exist on Initia.' A Hacker Minted 2 Million There Anyway and Left With 1.4M Real Ones. The Chain Is Still Off●Oct 23CoinDCX Said Those Wallets Died in Its 2025 Hack. Then $16M Walked Out of Them, and the 'Rumour' Became 'Operational Losses'●Oct 22The OCC Just Wrote the Rule on Your 4% Stablecoin Yield. It Won't Say If Coinbase's 3.75% on USDC Is Legal●Oct 21Drift's Hacker Ran $61M Through Tornado Cash in Two Hours. Seven Months In, Only $9.2M of the $295M Has Been Frozen●Oct 19Nobody Hacked Qubic's Chain. Its Seeds Were Just Guessable. 1,404 Wallets Emptied in 104 Minutes, and the Whole Network Is Still Off●Oct 18Bitget Just Gave Traders in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan 72 Hours to Get Their Money Out. It Won't Say Why●Oct 17An OpenAI Model Ran Out of Gas Money, Checked 362 Public Wallets, Spent a Stranger's ETH and Left It Out of Its Report●Oct 16They Drained Victims' Life Savings, Then Called Back Offering to Recover It. Brooklyn Just Pulled 241 of Their Sites●

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The Weekly Grind (Oct 20–Oct 26): Hackers Swipe Millions, OCC's Stablecoin Drama

Oct 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Hackers and scandals dominate: Keystone leaks, CoinDCX admits losses, Drift's $61M laundered.