Approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines were hijacked, involving $13 billion in computing power. This computing power was redirected to the Ocean mining pool, and the profits were directed to Bitcoin addresses controlled by the attackers. The attack began around 8 PM Central Time on November 14th.
OCEAN's dashboard showed that its hashrate once approached $500 million, before falling back to approximately $400 million. CoreX Hosting issued an alert stating that miners were being switched to other mining pools without authorization, and some operators pointed to Luxor's Commander miner management software as the source of the security incident.
CoreX stated that the attack appears to have ended, with the hijacked hashrate decreasing from $130 billion to approximately $100 billion. The attackers failed to mine any Bitcoin blocks during the hijacking, and affected miners lost the opportunity to obtain Bitcoin during the attack. The full scope of the security incident and whether Luxor Commander was compromised have not yet been independently confirmed.
