Last night, June 8, the H token was hit by a coordinated attack across Ethereum and BSC. While we’re still investigating this incident, we want to be transparent with our community about what happened.
As of right now, ~$36M+ has been stolen across both chains and dumped. This was a result of a breach that happened after an employee’s laptop was compromised.
Three of six Gnosis Safe owner keys controlling the Hyperlane bridge ProxyAdmin were compromised. The attacker used these to transfer ProxyAdmin ownership to their own wallet, then upgraded the bridge contract to a malicious implementation and swept ~141.2M H in a single transaction.
Three of five BSC Safe owner keys were also compromised. The attacker performed the same ProxyAdmin seizure on BSC, deployed a malicious implementation with an unlimited mint function, and minted 200,000,005 H in two tranches directly to their wallet.
We’ve now halted all deposits and withdrawals to the affected bridges and are working with all related parties, including exchanges, to minimize the damage. Further to our internal investigation, we’re also working closely with the police to investigate this incident and recover some of the stolen funds.
People in this community worked hard for what they hold here, and we feel the weight of that. We want to apologize for what has happened and thank you for your patience, messages, and for sticking with us.
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