{"id":654613,"date":"2026-09-08T03:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/liquid-white-hats-return-270m-in-bitcoin-as-network-prepares-restart\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:53:02","slug":"liquid-white-hats-return-270m-in-bitcoin-as-network-prepares-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/liquid-white-hats-return-270m-in-bitcoin-as-network-prepares-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid \u2018white hats\u2019 return $270M in Bitcoin as network prepares restart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Liquid<\/p>\n

The actors returned 85% of the Bitcoin withdrawn from Liquid\u2019s federation wallet following the security incident.<\/p>\n

Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $320 million from the Bitcoin sidechain\u2019s reserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, JAN3 CEO and former Blockstream executive Samson Mow said<\/a> the return followed confirmation from Blockstream that the affected bridge nodes had been patched. He said about 598 BTC remains outstanding and that Blockstream continues to engage with the actors.<\/p>\n

The return follows a Sunday security incident in which hackers withdrew about 4,000 BTC<\/a> from the wallet\u2019s roughly 4,200 BTC. Onchain records show<\/a> that exactly 3,400 BTC was transferred back to the federation\u2019s wallet address.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The actors returned 85% of the Bitcoin withdrawn from Liquid\u2019s federation wallet following the security incident. Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $320 million from the Bitcoin sidechain\u2019s reserves.\u00a0 On Monday, JAN3 CEO and former Blockstream executive Samson Mow said the return followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-654613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}