64,000 Bitcoin mining machines hijacked, redirecting 13 EH/s to OCEAN Pool.
Bitcoin News reported that approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines, representing approximately 13 EH/s of hashrate, were hijacked around 8:00 PM CST on November 14. The attackers redirected the hashrate to OCEAN and replaced the mining payment address with an address they controlled, briefly pushing the pool's hashrate close to 50 EH/s. CoreX Hosting said the incident appears to have ended on November 15, when the affected hashrate dropped to around 100 PH/s. The attackers failed to mine any blocks and received no block rewards, although the affected miners lost mining revenue during the incident. A possible compromise of the Luxor Commander software has not been independently confirmed.