The project team behind Harmony Protocol is trying their best to get their funds back with all possible efforts.
Harmony Protocol is a Proof-of-stake blockchain. On 23 June, a hacker attacked its Horizon bridge and stole around $100 million worth of crypto assets. At that time the team didn’t reveal about this attack. But recently the team decided to disclose this matter openly.
On 26 June, Harmony Protocol took to Twitter to inform the users that its Horizon bridge faced an attack. Team also confirmed that they are working against this hack to catch the bad actors behind this incident.
Team said:
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“Horizon bridge was exploited by one or more individuals, draining the bridge of approximately $100MM worth of Ethereum tokens…(..)…Our investigation team is working 24×7 to assist with identifying the culprits responsible, and the methods they used.”
Team also confirmed that it is doing an investigation in support of the FBI and other cybersecurity firms. And the Horizon bridge was suspended till the confirmation of bug.
2/ We are also working alongside the FBI and several cybersecurity firms.
Our engineers are narrowing down the attack vectors since the start of our investigation. We have also implemented enhanced security measures and suspended our Horizon bridge.
— stephen tse
s.one
stse.eth (@stse) June 25, 2022
Further the team announced a $1 million reward for the hackers at the cost to return funds back and also the team promised that it will not file any charge or suit against the actors.
We commit to a $1M bounty for the return of Horizon bridge funds and sharing exploit information.
Contact us at [email protected] or ETH address 0xd6ddd996b2d5b7db22306654fd548ba2a58693ac.
Harmony will advocate for no criminal charges when funds are returned.
— Harmony
Now it will be interesting to see whether the hacker will return the funds or not. In the past, it has been seen many times that it was very rare that hackers returned stolen funds.
In 2021, Biggest Defi exploit took placed with the Polygon network, where the hacker successfully grabbed $600 million but later returned funds to the team. Even hacker refused to accept bounty rewards & Job from Polygon.
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