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Nearly three million people may qualify for payments of up to $8,500 each under a data breach settlement tied to a major university cyberattack. Columbia University has agreed to pay $16,125,000 to settle a class action lawsuit over the May of 2025 attack on its network, the settlement website says. The case is In re Columbia University Data Breach Litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The class covers U.S. residents whose private information was compromised in the attack and who were sent a notice about it. Columbia estimates there are 2,973,631 class members.…

In brief Trezor said it received a credible report of a hardware implant in a Safe 5 bought from reseller CryptoBilis in August, though it hasn’t examined the device yet. The implant reportedly reads the wallet backup from the screen and sends it over a mobile network, which Trezor says appears similar to Ledger’s case. Trezor urged anyone who bought one of its wallets from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move their funds to a new wallet with a new recovery phrase. Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has warned customers who bought its devices from reseller CryptoBilis to move their funds,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TLDR XRP Ledger developers have proposed four fixes to close gaps in issuer approval requirements for restricted tokens. The changes would strengthen checks on trading pool shares and token transfers, preventing unapproved accounts from acquiring restricted assets through exceptions. Holders without approval would generally only be able to return affected tokens to the issuer, unless the issuer authorizes their account. The proposals are not live on mainnet. The XRP Ledger Foundation described the work as routine protocol hardening and reported no known outsider exploitation of the remaining…

In brief About $11 billion in Bitcoin options, roughly 135,000 BTC and a third of Deribit’s Bitcoin options open interest, expire on Friday. Max pain, the price where option sellers pay out the least, sits at $78,000 against a market price near $81,500, and about 86% of the contracts are out of the money. The Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4% on Wednesday in a 10-2 vote with two dissenters favoring a hike, and the 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.05%. About $11 billion in Bitcoin options expire on Friday on Deribit, a crypto options exchange, with Bitcoin trading…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TLDR Polygon Labs decided to bring its Open Money Stack to Solana. Businesses get bank funding, wallets, cross-chain transfers and global payouts through one integration. Kira, a fintech focused on cross-border dollar payments, is among the first adopters. Solana says it has handled over $5T in stablecoin volume this year, while Polygon Chain has passed $3T cumulatively. Polygon Extends Open Money Stack to Solana Polygon Labs is making a clear play for the payments market. The firm has rolled out its Open Money Stack on Solana, giving…

In brief Distributed Denial of Secrets published a dataset called Icepick on Oct. 28 with work details for 41,191 DHS employees and contractors, including 21,329 from Customs and Border Protection and about 10,000 from ICE. A hacktivist group called the Department of Peace says it took the records from an Okta login service used by DHS, while Okta says it has no evidence its systems were compromised. DHS says it is aware of a potential breach and has filed a takedown notice; a sample of named employees has been matched to other records but the full archive has not been…

In brief Polymarket put its exchange in cancel-only mode and paused relayer actions as users report funds withdrawn without permission. A wallet flagged as the suspected attacker’s holds about $2.65 million in POL, per Arkham data, after multiple USDC.e-to-POL swaps through Relay. Hudson Rock says a DebugBear-hosted script containing wallet-draining code hard-codes that same address as its fallback recipient. Polymarket users are reporting that the prediction market’s frontend may be compromised, with assets being withdrawn from accounts without permission.The platform’s status page shows its trading API in a major outage and the exchange in cancel-only mode, meaning traders can pull existing…

In brief At least $5.57 billion left Binance-linked wallets on Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron on Thursday, per an on-chain tally; Binance said it is investigating. Tether froze 975.1 million USDT and Circle froze 823 million USDC in the main receiving wallet, about $1.8 billion in total. Bitcoin fell below $79,000, BNB dropped about 7% and Monero rose about 6%. At least $5.57 billion in crypto has left wallets linked to Binance across three blockchains in what appears to be a breach of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.If confirmed as a hack, it would be the biggest crypto hack on record.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TLDR Dubai-based startup Utexo plans to relaunch Tether’s USDT on Bitcoin using the RGB protocol, with a public launch set for November 28. Lightning Network support is expected in the first quarter of 2027. The project faces a market where roughly $300 billion in stablecoins already sits on Ethereum, Tron and other networks. Bridge risk and limited DeFi support remain the main hurdles. Why USDT Is Returning to Bitcoin USDT first appeared on Bitcoin in 2014 through the Omni protocol. Tether ended issuance there in August 2023,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TLDR Chainlink launches Chainlink 24/7, a pricing service covering weekends and holidays for stocks, commodities and other traditional assets. Off-hours prices are based on quotes from perpetual futures venues, not closed exchanges. Aave is the first partner, using the feeds on its institutional Horizon platform. Chainlink says its weekday infrastructure already covers more than $1.6 billion in tokenized stocks. Blockchain markets run around the clock, but the assets many of them track do not. Stock exchanges close at night, on weekends, and on holidays, leaving on-chain applications…

In brief Wallets tied to the suspected Binance hack received tens of thousands of ETH from Uniswap contracts and borrowed 19,762 ETH on Aave against about $60 million in USDT, with no sign of a flaw in either app. About 253,000 ETH, roughly $570 million, sat in two wallets with no outgoing transfers as of 22:07 UTC, and ETH has no issuer that can freeze it. Ripple has frozen about $200 million in RLUSD, per Binance co-CEO Yi He, on top of the more than $2 billion in USDT and USDC. The attacker behind the wallets draining Binance is using…

Crypto exchange HTX has exited the UK following a settlement in the Financial Conduct Authority’s promotions case. Its UK customers cannot deposit or trade, while eligible users face a conditional process to withdraw remaining assets.The FCA announced the outcome on Oct. 29, saying the exchange, formerly Huobi, is no longer active in the country. New UK users cannot sign up, and HTX will no longer target or solicit UK consumers.HTX’s UK service notice says existing accounts identified as UK accounts cannot transact across its products and services. Eligible individuals holding residual assets must contact customer support to request a one-time,…