Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York

Rekt Post-Mortems Trace Bitget's Nine-Figure Loss and the SingularityNET Bridge Drain to Trusted Keys and Third-Party Tools

In most of the past month's largest incidents, attackers used credentials and components the systems treated as valid. NEAR Intents recovered its $3.8 million loss, and Balancer holders voted 99.2% to wind the protocol down.

Rekt News published post-mortems on several of the past month's largest thefts. Together, they show a common pattern: in most cases, the attacker did not break the contract code itself. Instead, the attacker used a credential, key or tool t…