CROWDFUNDINSIDER · 2026-11-11 18:25 UTC

Bitcoin Lightning Network's LNbits Hit by Attacks, Issues Urgent Shutdown Order

LNbits maintainers on November 8, 2026 told all operators to shut down their servers immediately after reported attacks in which unauthorized parties created accounts and moved funds. The project first asked operators with the Paywall extension to disable it, then expanded the order to all users and disabled its hosted my.lnbits.com instances, which it said would return in about 24 hours. One affected operator, BitTipBot, reported about 2,285,545 satoshis (roughly 0.0229 BTC) withdrawn between roughly 9:22 and 14:00 UTC; no official vulnerability details or total loss figure were published.

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