Kraken Hit by ~12K Dust Attacks, Some Accounts Temporarily Inaccessible

Dust attacks are a nuisance rather than a breach — the attacker's goal is usually to pollute wallet histories and probe address clustering, not to drain funds. What stands out here is scale: nearly 12,000 transactions is enough to strain account visibility and support queues, which is why users felt it as an access problem rather than a security one. The open question is whether this remains a spam campaign or becomes a recurring operational cost for exchanges whose deposit flows are permissionless by design.