Harmony Private Key Leak: $100.00M Reported Loss
Harmony Horizon bridge was hacked.
- Reported loss
- $ 100,000,000
- Attack category
- Private Key Leakage
Incident Overview
According to the analysis of SlowMist MistTrack, the attackers made more than 100 million US dollars, including 11 ERC20 tokens, 13,100 ETH, 5,000 BNB and 640,000 BUSD. On the 26th, Harmony founder Stephen Tse said on Twitter that Horizon was attacked not because of a smart contract vulnerability, but because of a private key leak. Although Harmony stored the private keys encrypted, the attacker decrypted some of them and signed some unauthorized transactions. At present, Harmony has migrated Horizon's verification authority on the Ethereum side to 4/5 multi-signature. It is reported that this incident is suspected to be related to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group.
Sources & References
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