Harmony’s Horizon Bridge Suffers a 100M Exploit in Latest DeFi Attack

The Horizon bridge to the Harmony blockchain has lost $100 million worth of altcoins to a malicious actor. Harmony announced today morning via Twitter. [embed]https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1540110924400324608?s=20&t=cgXzjYq4foPyAMVF1G8Tcg[/embed] Following a brief investigation, the Harmony team pinpointed the attacker’s Ethereum address. After compromising the Horizon bridge, the attacker transferred different tokens to their wallet, with the first transfer coming a little over 20 hours ago. According to Harmony, this exploit did not impact the trustless Bitcoin (BTC) bridge. The protocol claims this bridge’s funds…