Anyone who swapped bitcoin or other coins into Monero (XMR) through the swap service Wagyu.xyz between July 18 and October 26, 2026 may appear in a dataset that is now circulating online. Wagyu has confirmed the data leak. According to an analysis by security firm Hudson Rock, it contains 4,580 Monero swap orders marked as completed in which the deposit transaction, the Monero receiving address and the customer's IP address sit side by side. The Monero blockchain itself is not affected. The risk lies with the service's customers, and above all it means targeted phishing.
This article sets out which data is exposed, what the leak means for Monero as a privacy coin, and where the price and the major FCMP++ protocol upgrade stand, whose test network received a new version on October 26.
Wagyu data leak: which Monero data is exposed
Wagyu.xyz is a so-called swap service. A swap service exchanges one coin for another without the user opening an account with identity checks: you send bitcoin, for example, to a deposit address and receive Monero at an address of your choice. Monero users in particular rely on such services because many...
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