Duelbits Hacked Again: Co-Founder Confirms About $7 Million Loss

Duelbits co-founder Joe confirmed a hack of about $7 million on Sept. 24 and said the crypto casino will stay offline until the company knows what happened. He also said user funds are safe.

Players with money on the site have the most at stake. FairGambling's tracker counted almost $190.6 million in deposits to Duelbits over the 365 days to Sept. 24, from more than 85,000 depositing addresses. The co-founder did not say when players can withdraw again.

PeckShield Traces the Money

The first public alert came from blockchain security firm PeckShield, which posted it at 10:15 a.m. UTC. It listed 836 ETH worth about $2.23 million, 1.146 million USDT, 209 BNB, 96,805 USDC, 12.4 billion SHIB and 31,515 DAI, all moved on Ethereum and BNB Chain.

The firm said the attacker has since swapped the haul for 1,587.87 ETH, worth about $4.2 million, plus 31,500 DAI.

Scam Sniffer, another monitoring service, put the outflows at about $4.2 million and said Duelbits wallets on Tron were hit too, according to multiple industry reports. It suspects a leaked private key. A hot wallet is the internet-connected wallet a casino uses to pay out withdrawals, and its key controls the funds inside.

The co-founder's figure is higher than either tracker's early count. He did not break it down by chain.

Duelbits Confirms the Hack but Not the Cause

Duelbits posted its first statement on X about 90 minutes after PeckShield's alert. It called the event a security incident and said the site had been taken offline as a precaution, with no loss figure and no cause.

"Confirming a ~$7M hack. Still investigating exactly what happened and how."

Co-founder Joe wrote that on X at 1:38 p.m. UTC. He added that the site stays offline "until we have clarity" and that "user funds are safe."

His next steps are to finish the investigation, refill the hot wallets, bring the site back online and launch what he called "Duelbits 2.0." He gave no date for any of them.

The operator has been here before. In February 2024, an attacker drained about $4.6 million from Duelbits wallets on Ethereum and BNB Chain, according to multiple reports at the time.

Two questions remain open: how the attacker got in, and when the site comes back. The co-founder said he will keep posting updates on X as he has them.

Update, Sept. 24, 2026: This article was updated after Duelbits co-founder Joe confirmed a hack of about $7 million and said user funds are safe.

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