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Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026Published at 12:35 AM EST · New York
LNbits Ships Emergency Version 1.7.0 After Attackers Drained Lightning Wallet Servers
Every LNbits release before 1.7.0 is affected, and the same week Binance warned that an unpatched iPhone flaw could let malicious apps read other apps' seed phrases.
LNbits, the open-source software that many operators use to run Lightning Network wallet and payment accounts on top of their own nodes, released version 1.7.0 on November 10 as an urgent security update. Active attacks had begun on Novembe…
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