{"id":63523,"date":"2022-06-27T12:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63523"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:27:22","slug":"harmony-offers-1-million-bounty-for-return-of-100-million-stolen-from-horizon-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/harmony-offers-1-million-bounty-for-return-of-100-million-stolen-from-horizon-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony offers $1 million bounty for return of $100 million stolen from Horizon bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Harmony protocol team offered a $1 million bounty for the return of Horizon cross-chain bridge crypto assets <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-steals-about-100-million-in-harmonys-horizon-cross-chain-bridge-attack\">worth $100 million<\/a> or information leading to the attackers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We commit to a $1M bounty for the return of Horizon bridge funds and sharing exploit information. <\/p>\n<p>Contact us at whitehat@harmony.one or ETH address 0xd6ddd996b2d5b7db22306654fd548ba2a58693ac. <\/p>\n<p>Harmony will advocate for no criminal charges when funds are returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harmony \ud83d\udc99 (@harmonyprotocol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harmonyprotocol\/status\/1540904433525088256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Harmony will advocate for no criminal charges when the funds are returned,&#8221; the developers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Users in the comments noted the small size of the bounty \u2014 1% of the value of the stolen funds. A popular Twitter crypto trader under the alias Degen Spartan called the offer &#8220;an insulting amount&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DegenSpartan\/status\/1540940274981306370\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I think these guys are just performing a stunt to soften legal responsibility: &#8216;Hey, look, don&#8217;t blame us, at least we tried.&#8217; It seems they don&#8217;t even want to return the money with such a clownish offer,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harmony CEO Stephen Tse clarified in a thread that the breach was caused by compromised private keys to the multi-sig wallet, not by any Horizon vulnerability.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/ The team has found evidence that private keys were compromised, leading to the breach of our Horizon bridge. Funds were stolen from the Ethereum side of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 stephen tse \ud83d\udc99 s.one \ud83c\udf09 stse.eth <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stse\/status\/1540896632278900737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The team found evidence that private keys were compromised, leading to the Horizon breach. The funds were stolen from the Ethereum side of the bridge,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Immunefi notes, crypto projects lost <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-reach-1-22-billion-so-far-this-year\">more than $1.22 billion<\/a> in the first quarter of 2022 due to hacks and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harmony protocol team offered a $1 million bounty for the return of Horizon cross-chain bridge crypto assets worth $100 million or information leading to the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2139],"class_list":["post-63523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-harmony-one"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63525,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63523\/revisions\/63525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}