BTCPay Offers $190,000 Bounty to Recover Funds Lost in Lightning Wallet Exploit

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BTCPay Server has announced a bounty worth up to $190,000 to help recover funds stolen in a recent security exploit. Attackers managed to steal Lightning Network Daemon (LND) credentials, which were then used to drain merchant Lightning wallets. The incident took place last week, affecting merchants who relied on BTCPay's bitcoin payment infrastructure. As an incentive, BTCPay has offered to pay 10% of any recovered funds, capped at 3 BTC, to whoever assists in retrieving the stolen assets.

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