Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC

Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC Ravie LakshmananSep 08, 2026Cryptocurrency / Vulnerability Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin. The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a Liquid Federation address at 16:09 UTC on September 7, about 85% of what was taken. The federation is the group of operators that holds the bitcoin backing L-BTC. The remaining 598.5 bitcoin was…