Kraken Says ‘Dust Attack’ From Sanctioned HTX Wallet Locked Out Customers

The detail that matters is the source: a wallet tied to a sanctioned entity, not the dust amounts themselves. That reframes this as a compliance-triggering event rather than a technical nuisance, since exchanges are obligated to react to sanctioned-address exposure even when the sums are trivial. For users, the practical exposure is account access, not funds lost to the attack. The open question is whether the lockouts trace to automated screening thresholds that other exchanges share, which would make this a recurring operational risk rather than a one-off.