Bitcoin briefly fell to about $62,000 before recovering above $64,000. Roughly $1.9 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated during the selloff. The crypto market then had another problem: Kava Lend was exploited, with attackers draining about $3.76 million in value and sending the KAVA token sharply lower.
🚨 64,000 BITCOIN MINERS HIJACKED IN MASSIVE ATTACK
An estimated 64,000 Bitcoin miners representing 13 EH/s of hashrate were reportedly hijacked overnight, with their mining power redirected to OCEAN mining pool and payouts assigned to an attacker-controlled Bitcoin address.… https://t.co/WO3yLtAViL pic.twitter.com/tUQO5UC5Ey
— Bitcoin News (@BitcoinNewsCom) November 15, 2026
Kava says the incident was contained within its lending platform. That doesn’t erase the losses for users or token holders. It adds another failure to a market already under pressure.
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