A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
Shaurya Malwa
Publisher CoinDesk
Sep 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM UTC · 1 min read
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A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
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