White Hats Move 52 Bitcoin Into Recovery Trust After COLDCARD Wallet Flaw

White Hats Move 52 Bitcoin Into Recovery Trust After COLDCARD Wallet Flaw


Official COLDCARD Mk4 product image illustrating a 52 Bitcoin white-hat recovery image By Isaac • September 22, 2026 7:25 am •

The safest Bitcoin in a hardware wallet can still become vulnerable when the randomness behind its private keys fails.

That is the problem a white-hat team says it faced after discovering funds exposed by a COLDCARD entropy flaw. Instead of waiting for attackers to finish the job, the researchers moved 52.37 Bitcoin into a Wyoming recovery trust built to return the money to its rightful owners.

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The transfer is a rare piece of good news inside a much larger security failure. It also shows what coordinated on-chain incident response can accomplish when defenders know which wallets are exposed and can reach them first.

Cointelegraph reports that the 52.37 BTC was consolidated into an address controlled by

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