The project team behind Harmony Protocol is trying its best to recover your funds with all possible efforts. Harmony Protocol is a proof-of-stake blockchain.
On June 23, a hacker attacked their Horizon Bridge and stole around $100 million worth of crypto assets. At the time, the team did not disclose this attack, but recently the team decided to reveal this matter openly.
On June 26, Harmony Protocol took to Twitter to inform users that their Horizon bridge was facing an attack. The team confirmed that they are working against this hack to catch the hackers behind this incident.
1/ On Thursday June 23rd, the 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.
— stephen tse 💙 s.one 🌉 stse.eth (@stse) June 25, 2022
The team also confirmed that it is conducting an investigation in support of the FBI and other cybersecurity companies, and the Horizon Bridge was suspended until confirmation of the error.
Furthermore, the team announced a $1 million reward for the hackers in exchange for returning the funds and also promised that they would not file any charges or lawsuits against the hackers.
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 💙 (@harmonyprotocol) June 26, 2022
In 2021, the Biggest exploit was placed on the Polygon network, where the hacker successfully obtained $600 million but later returned the funds to the team.