Are there any real world instances of something like this happening? I just keep seeing the same tweet screenshots circling around with no examples

Great question. Also, what’s the actual exploit? There’s no mention of the exploit patch in the release notes of 0.18.5 either.

Sorry. “A critical bug related to erroneous invoice state transitions.”

The only think I’ve heard on message boards is “you can't be affected by this bug unless you receive LN payments in a manner where doublechecking their settlement is impractical (ie if you run LN pos at bar etc)” So from what i understand is that payments could be sent to a node, but never settle; i suppose.

I remember @Stacker News, @Mysterious Hamster and Predyx getting hacked and having funds drained, i don't know if those instances had anything to do with this tho.

In that context I’m wondering where the “draining wallets” talk is coming from.

My same thoughts exactly

Our incident was unrelated. We run CLN

You do you. I'd trust Stick on that one instead of gambling with the funds on the node. Big security incidents come with post mortems where full disclosure is provided but this usually has to wait until all had a good chance to secure their systems.