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Harmony Bridge Hacked, $100 Million Worth of Ethereum Lost

 The Horizon bridge linking with Harmony a Layer 1 PoS blockchain built for native token ONE to the Ethereum and Binance Chain ecosystem was hacked leading to a loss of approx $100 million in ETH. The exploit was announced on Twitter by the Harmony team who said that they are pursuing the culprit.

r/FreeKarma4You - Harmony Bridge Hacked, $100 Million Worth of Ethereum Lost

The bridge has since been shut down to stop further losses. Harmony devs have also explained that the BTC bridge is unaffected. 

The attack appears to have taken place for 17 hours. starting with a transaction worth a whopping 4.919 ETH followed by several smaller transactions ranging from 911 to 0.0003 ETH. The last one took place after the bridge had been shut down.

Read full news at: http://cryptounity.news/harmony-bridge-hacked-100-million-worth-of-ethereum-lost

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