The record must include the hard days
MWEB’s 2026 security lessons
A credible anniversary preserves the repair history alongside the achievement.
David Burkett’s April 28, 2026 postmortem describes a March validation flaw that permitted an inflated MWEB pegout, followed by coordinated containment, recovery and accounting repair. It also documents an April attempt that exposed a block-handling failure and led to a 13-block invalid chain being reorganized away. This is the developer’s account; LTC Media has not independently reconstructed the chain events or audited every downstream loss.
The report says emergency response depended on miner coordination and several staged releases. It identifies v0.21.5.4 as addressing the April failure mode, while later release records document additional hardening. Our editorial conclusion is simple: discussing privacy honestly includes discussing validation, deployment and service integration. A chain can recover while particular services still experience harm. Neither celebration nor criticism should flatten those distinctions. The incident remains dated history here, not a claim that a new attack is underway at publication time.
- Read the primary postmortem and subsequent release notes together.
- Recovery claims do not establish that every service had zero loss.