# Bitget's $388 million loss came through hacked security appliances, not stolen keys, and other September exploits also ran through trusted infrastructure

Hot-wallet key leaks at Duelbits and a signing-key compromise on the SingularityNET bridge followed the same pattern, while NEAR Intents lost $3.8 million to a deposit-accounting bug.

- Published: 2026-10-18T05:40:05.953Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-10-18/bitget-s-388-million-loss-came-through-hacked-security-appli
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Rekt News (Bitget)](https://www.rekt.news/), [Cointelegraph](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitget-388m-hack-third-party-security-vulnerability), [Bloomberg Government](https://news.bgov.com/crypto/bitget-hack-pushes-north-korean-crypto-haul-past-1-billion), [Forklog](https://forklog.com/en/analysts-link-fetch-ai-nunet-and-singularitynet-attacks-to-single-hacker/), [Crypto Briefing](https://cryptobriefing.com/duelbits-offline-7m-hot-wallet-hack/), [CoinCentral](https://coincentral.com/near-intents-hacked-for-3-8-million-in-latest-crypto-exploit), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/thailand-crypto-exchange-suspect-500m-yuan-laundering/)

Rekt News has now published post-mortems on Bitget, Duelbits, SingularityNET and NEAR Intents, and most of the large September losses share one feature. The attackers used systems the victims trusted rather than flaws in on-chain contract c…

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