Approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines were hijacked, and 13 EH/s of computing power was redirected to the OCEAN mining pool

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines have reportedly been hijacked, involving 13 EH/s of computing power. The mining machine's computing power was redirected to the OCEAN mining pool, with earnings designated to be paid to a Bitcoin address controlled by the attackers. The attack reportedly began around 8 PM Central Time.

The OCEAN dashboard showed that its computing power once approached 50 EH/s, before falling back to about 40 EH/s. CoreX Hosting was the first to raise the alarm, stating that the mining machines were switched to other mining pools without authorization. An affected operator claimed that their entire mining farm was hijacked and pointed out that Luxor's Commander mining management software was the source of this security incident; other operators reported that similar unauthorized changes to mining pools had occurred a few days prior.

CoreX subsequently stated that the attack appeared to be over, with the hijacked computing power dropping from 13 EH/s to about 100 PH/s. The attackers reportedly failed to mine any Bitcoin blocks during the hijacking, thus not receiving any block rewards; affected miners permanently lost the opportunity to earn Bitcoin during the attack. The full scope of the impact of this security incident, as well as whether Luxor Commander was compromised, has yet to be independently confirmed.