Securities class action against Hut 8
Company: Hut 8
The claim, verbatim
Hut 8, its CEO, and its CFO face a consolidated federal securities fraud class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Source (primary)
Thompson v. Leverton — Entry #9: FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT amending 1 Complaint, against Joseph Flinn, Asher Genoot, Alexia Hefti, Michael Ho, Hut 8 Corp., Jamie Leverton, Stanley O'Neal, Rick… (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “subjected the Company, its Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and its Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), to a consolidated federal securities fraud class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York”
How we checked this
Checked on September 28, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
Paragraph 11 describes the pending consolidated class action and venue. Paragraph 163 names Hut 8, Leverton and Visram as its defendants.
Confirmed in the source:
- Hut 8, its CEO and its CFO are subject to a consolidated federal securities fraud class action
- The class action is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.618845/gov.uscourts.nysd.618845.9.0.pdf) in full (109,679 characters, retrieved September 26, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Thompson v. Leverton — Entry #9: FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT amending 1 Complaint, against Joseph Flinn, Asher Genoot, Alexia Hefti, Michael Ho, Hut 8 Corp., Jamie Leverton, Stanley O'Neal, Rick…
Quote: “subjected the Company, its Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and its Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), to a consolidated federal securities fraud class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York”