Hack

[Core Summary] The HP token of decentralized identity project Humanity Protocol plummeted over 80% following a $32 million private key security incident. Attackers compromised a foundation member’s private key and dumped the stolen tokens for ether. Security Incident Details Humanity Protocol confirmed that attackers gained access to a foundation member’s private key and subsequently sold large quantities of stolen HP tokens for Ethereum. The incident caused the token price to collapse by over 80% in a short time, severely damaging market confidence. ...

[Brief] StablR Stablecoin Hit by $13.5M Exploit, Tokens Depeg StablR’s EURR and USDR stablecoins suffered a severe depeg after an attacker exploited a multisig wallet vulnerability to mint approximately $13.5 million in unbacked tokens. EURR fell to $0.85 and USDR dropped as low as $0.40. According to TheBlock, the attacker dumped roughly $10.4 million in face value on decentralized exchanges. The project team is working on an emergency fix.

Education platform Canvas suffered a hack resulting in student data theft. The affected company chose to pay the criminals to have the stolen data deleted.

Cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero acknowledges primary responsibility for a $292M exploit affecting KelpDAO, reversing its initial framing of the incident as a developer configuration failure.

Kelp DAO claims LayerZero approved the bridge configuration exploited in the $292M Drift hack, shifting blame in the ongoing dispute.

Sri Lanka’s government discloses another anomalous financial transaction, days after hackers stole $2.5M from the finance ministry, as the nation’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities continue to come under scrutiny.