Recovering Private Keys in Just 6 Connections: Qubic Wallet May Have Leaked Most of Its Private…
Qubic Wallet disclosed on October 18 that attackers exploited insufficient randomness in its wallet to access and transfer approximately 2.94 trillion QU from 1,404 wallets. Security analysis revealed the wallet used a non-cryptographically secure random number generator and transmitted parts of the random stream in plaintext, allowing private keys to be recovered with as few as six network observations.
- Protocols
- Qubic Wallet
- Confidence
- High
- First seen
- 20 Oct 2026, 08:00 UTC