BTCPay Server Requests Server Shutdown Following Report of Hot Wallet Fund Leak

BTCPay Server, a bitcoin payment processing software provider, on the 2nd urged operators to shut down their servers after reports that funds were being illicitly drained from hot wallets on multiple servers. The company has not disclosed the cause of the incident or the scale of losses. The security event affects self-hosted BTCPay Server deployments that hold funds in hot wallets, though the total number of impacted servers remains unknown. The open-source protocol is widely used by merchants for direct bitcoin acceptance without intermediaries, making wallet security incidents notable for the payment ecosystem. Market participants should watch for BTCPay Server's root-cause analysis, any confirmed loss figures, and guidance on when operators can safely resume server operations.