That’s according to a report Monday (Nov. 2) from CoinDesk, which says the attackers in question were draining so-called “hot wallets” on some of those servers.

BTCPay’s open-source software lets anyone run the system on their servers, the report said. As there are no middlemen, businesses accept bitcoin payments directly into their own wallets, and BTCPay allows them to run these as hot wallets, which remain connected to the internet.

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