Hackers looted about $100 million from a so-called cryptocurrency bridge, targeting a key vulnerability in the digital-asset ecosystem.
Harmony said in a tweet the hack of its Horizon bridge, which lets people swap coins between blockchains, took place Thursday morning. It has “begun working with national authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit and retrieve the stolen funds.”
1/ The Harmony team has identified a theft occurring this morning on the Horizon bridge amounting to approx. $100MM. We have begun working with national authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit and retrieve the stolen funds.
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— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) June 23, 2022
Horizon, which offers cross-chain transfers between Ethereum and Binance, marks the third major bridge hack this year. In February, hackers stole more than $300 million from the Wormhole bridge. In late March, Ronin Bridge lost about $620 million to hackers. Even before the Horizon hack, money stolen...
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