A Lightning Attack Hacked 64,000 Bitcoin Mining Machines

64,000 Bitcoin mining machines were hacked and remotely redirected during the night of November 14 to 15, 2026. A spectacular hack that coincides with a major technical relief on the network: the sharp 9.13% drop in mining difficulty. The host CoreX Hosting revealed that a cyberattack of surgical precision was targeting Bitcoin mining infrastructures. Between November 14 and 15, 2026, about 64,000 mining machines (ASICs) had their connection settings changed without their owners’ knowledge. The attacker managed to redirect a colossal computing power of 13 EH/s directly to the OCEAN mining pool. This was done by configuring a Bitcoin address under his control. On OCEAN’s dashboards, Bitcoin’s global hashrate experienced an abnormal and sudden spike, briefly nearing 50 EH/s before containment measures were taken.

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