Swiss Bitcoin Pay Halts Servers Following Security Incident

Swiss Bitcoin Pay has been forced to take its servers offline after a security breach on Monday, the company reported.

The business, which provides non-custodial bitcoin payment processing and is based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, stated that client funds remain secure. However, it believes that attackers accessed customer email addresses, bitcoin addresses, IBANs, transaction records, and hashed passwords.

A malicious user has likely gained access to Swiss Bitcoin Pay’s internal systems. As a precaution, we are temporarily shutting down our servers while we investigate and secure our infrastructure.

At this stage, we believe they may have accessed customer email addresses, Bitcoin…

The incident adds to a growing list of data breaches affecting bitcoin and financial technology firms. Last week, Revolut confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained customer passports, driver's licenses, verification selfies, and transaction histories after sending fraudulent requests from a legitimate government agency's email domain.

Trezor, a leading hardware wallet manufacturer, also warned last week that a breach at the third-party marketing platform used for its newsletters was enabling criminals to target customers with phishing attacks.

"A malicious user has likely gained access to Swiss Bitcoin Pay's internal systems … As a precaution, we are temporarily shutting down our servers while we investigate and secure our infrastructure," Swiss Bitcoin Pay said on Monday.

The company added that; "User funds are safe, and any amounts owed to users will be fully returned."

Swiss Bitcoin Pay did not immediately respond to Bitcoin Magazine's request for comment.

The platform allows businesses to accept bitcoin payments quickly and easily using both on-chain transactions and the Lightning Network.

Criminals have increasingly been targeting data in 2026. Scammers in January were able to get hold of customer information via crypto wallet Ledger's payment processor Global-e to send phishing emails.

Crypto wallet provider SafePal last month also announced a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' order information, including personal details such as names, addresses and purchase data.