ONE, a native token of a cross-chain bridge provider, Harmony, is now one of the worst performers among the top 200 coins today, as the team confirmed they lost around ETH 85,867 (USD 99m) in a theft.
At 03:40 UTC, ONE, ranked 123rd by market capitalization on CoinGecko, trades at USD 0.024 and is down over 7% in a day and almost 4% in a week.
At around 11:13 PM UTC, Harmony
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
said it “has identified a theft occurring this morning on the Horizon bridge amounting to approx. USD 100m.” The team claims that it does not impact their bitcoin (BTC) bridge and “its funds and assets stored on decentralized vaults are safe at this time.”
According to the announcement, Harmony has also notified exchanges and stopped the Horizon bridge to prevent further transactions.
“We have begun working with national authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit and retrieve the stolen funds,” they added.
Harmony claims that its bridges can connect any proof-of-work and proof-of-stake chains.
Source: Cryptonews
Scammers have been hacking crypto and getting away with it for long, i think we all though crypto was safe and its not as safe as we though. I got hacked as well but was lucky to discover in time because the wallet I use tells me about every withdrawal, immediately got assetsrepo. com and they recovered about 90% of all I lost for me, its painful but I was happy to still got some back.