Post by Augustine Chiagozie (@pabloexchange)

🔐 Hardware wallet bug drains 594 BTC in 25 minutes

A randomness flaw in a hardware wallet allowed attackers to guess seed phrases that should have been cryptographically secure, draining 594 BTC — approximately $38 million — in a single 25-minute sweep.

The vulnerability stems from a defective random number generator used during wallet seed creation. When entropy is insufficient, seed phrases that appear random become mathematically predictable, enabling brute-force recovery of private keys.

Users of affected hardware wallets are urged to check whether their device was impacted and consider migrating funds to a newly generated wallet on verified hardware. No patch can retroactively fix seeds already generated with weak randomness.

🔐 Hardware wallet bug drains 594 BTC in 25 minutes A randomness flaw in a hardware wallet allowed...

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