BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets
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BTCPay Server, an open-source bitcoin payment processor, has urged users to shut down their servers following reports of drained wallets, with the project still investigating and offering no loss figure or fix. Founder Nicolas Dorier said the incidents appear to involve versions older than 2.4.2, making the upgrade threshold the key security line for merchants and self-hosters. The tool is widely used by merchants accepting on-chain bitcoin and Lightning Network payments, so a wallet-draining vulnerability carries direct merchant-funds risk. No specific dollar losses, affected server counts, or attack vector have been confirmed. Watch for an official patch, a post-mortem identifying the exploit path, and guidance on whether version 2.4.2 and later are confirmed safe.
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