Approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines hijacked, 13 EH/s hashrate redirected to OCEAN mining pool

Odaily reports: According to monitoring by Bitcoin News, approximately 64,000 Bitcoin mining machines were reportedly hijacked, involving 13 EH/s of hashrate. The mining machines' hashrate was redirected to the OCEAN mining pool, with proceeds designated to be paid to Bitcoin addresses controlled by the attackers. The attack reportedly began around 8 PM Central Time on November 14. The OCEAN dashboard showed its hashrate briefly approaching 50 EH/s before falling back to approximately 40 EH/s. CoreX Hosting was the first to raise the alarm, stating that mining machines had been switched to other mining pools without authorization. One affected operator claimed that their entire mining farm was hijacked and pointed to Luxor's Commander mining machine management software as the source of the security incident; other operators reported similar unauthorized mining pool changes that had occurred several days earlier. CoreX subsequently stated that the attack appeared to have ended, with the hijacked hashrate dropping from 13 EH/s to approximately 100 PH/s. The attackers reportedly failed to mine any Bitcoin blocks during the hijacking and therefore received no block rewards; affected miners permanently lost the opportunity to earn Bitcoin during the attack period. The full scope of the security incident, as well as whether Luxor Commander was compromised, has not yet been independently confirmed.