Blink has paused services while investigating a security incident after attackers accessed a small number of custodial accounts and withdrew funds, according to a post shared by Bitcoin News on X. The company said the vast majority of funds remain safe and that non-custodial wallets were not affected. Blink also said it uses Spark, a Bitcoin payment protocol that supports multiple Lightning Network wallets, but added that it has not confirmed whether Spark was the source of the incident. The update leaves the cause of the breach unresolved, with the company limiting its statement to the scope of affected accounts and the status of user funds. No further details on the amount withdrawn or the number of impacted accounts were disclosed in the source update.
Blink has paused services and is investigating a security incident after attackers accessed a small number of custodial accounts and withdrew funds, according to a post shared by Bitcoin News on X.
Blink said the vast majority of funds remain safe. It also said non-custodial wallets were not affected.
The company added that it uses Spark, a Bitcoin payment protocol that supports multiple Lightning Network wallets. Blink said it has not confirmed whether Spark was the source of the incident.
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