According to ChainCatcher citing Bitcoin News, about 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines were reportedly hijacked, redirecting 13 EH/s of computing power to the OCEAN pool, with mining proceeds set to go to a Bitcoin address controlled by the attacker. The attack reportedly began at around 8 p.m. U.S. Central Time.
OCEAN’s dashboard showed its hashrate briefly nearing 50 EH/s before falling to about 40 EH/s. CoreX Hosting first raised the alarm, saying machines had been switched to another pool without authorization. An affected operator said its entire mining farm was hijacked and identified Luxor’s Commander management software as the source of the incident. Other operators reported similar unauthorized pool changes days earlier.
CoreX later said the attack appeared to have ended, with the hijacked hashrate dropping from 13 EH/s to about 100 PH/s. The attackers reportedly failed to mine a Bitcoin block and received no block reward. Affected miners permanently lost the opportunity to earn Bitcoin during the attack. The incident’s full scope and whether Luxor Commander was compromised have not been independently confirmed.