ZEUS pulls infrastructure offline after hack, third Lightning outage in a week

On August 5, ZEUS brought its Lightning wallet services to a halt following the discovery of a cybersecurity incident, making it the third prominent Lightning provider to suspend its services within a period of about 72 hours following service interruptions at Boltz and AQUA.

The company has confirmed that the attack was dealt with and no customer money was lost. However, three well-known services that are related to Lightning going offline within days of one another has raised concerns about the safety of Lightning infrastructure providers, not of the Bitcoin Lightning Network itself.

The wider cryptocurrency market did not really show any signs of concern. Bitcoin was trading at around $64,600 on August 6th, down just over one percent as per CoinMarketCap. Hence, concerns of the investors seem to be directed solely towards the affected companies.

A cluster of Lightning services going dark

ZEUS is the latest operator to pause key services. Non-custodial Bitcoin bridge Boltz stopped processing swaps after the detection of AI-assisted attack on its infrastructure on August 3. The company said it kept its API operational for making cooperative refund and affirmed that unilateral refunds could be received without using its infrastructure.

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