BloomTrading Pledges Reimbursement After Solana Wallet Drain

BloomTrading said it will fully reimburse owners of nine affected wallets after about 9,408 SOL, worth roughly $950,000 to $954,000, was drained from wallets linked to its trading bot on October 26. The company said replacement funds would be sent to new addresses chosen by the wallet owners; the pledge does not mean payments have been completed. Blockchain investigators traced the transfers to 48 Bloom-linked wallets belonging to nine traders, while another monitoring estimate identified 49 suspected victim wallets connected to transfers to one suspected receiving address. The figures describe different investigations, and the reports do not establish how the estimated wallets relate to those Bloom named for reimbursement. Bloom said it is investigating whether a third-party service provider was compromised. The cause of the withdrawals has not been confirmed, and the company has not published a detailed technical account. It has not announced a payment schedule or explained how it will verify reimbursement claims. Bitquery’s on-chain analysis found that the 9,408 SOL transfers were signed with the source wallets’ own keys. That shows the transactions had valid authorization...