Web3 Security Weekly News Review — October 5–11, 2026
A hardware wallet's distribution channel — not its chip — leaked the seed phrases of hundreds of users for the better part of $90M, and the stolen stablecoins went straight for…
Articles tagged Supply Chain
A hardware wallet's distribution channel — not its chip — leaked the seed phrases of hundreds of users for the better part of $90M, and the stolen stablecoins went straight for…
The week's number was one incident: a reseller channel that leaked seed phrases for the better part of $86M. Strip it out and the other five events total under $14M — the same…
The seed phrase was read off the screen before the buyer ever used the device, and the stolen dollars pivoted to the one stablecoin that has no kill switch — the week's two facts…
A ~$10M freeze met a same-day escape hatch, the DOJ put a nine-figure forfeiture on paper, and a payments firm asked a federal court who actually controls a stablecoin — the week…
The wallets were never hacked — they were shipped compromised. A chip behind the screen read the words as they appeared, and the one precaution that matters in self-custody…