Orbit Chain Bridge Compromise, December 2023: What Happened & What to Check
Roughly $81.5m left Orbit Bridge on New Year's Eve 2023 in transactions that carried valid signatures.
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Roughly $81.5m left Orbit Bridge on New Year's Eve 2023 in transactions that carried valid signatures.
Assets left Multichain bridge contracts with no exploit visible on-chain, amid the reported detention of the project's chief executive.
A routine upgrade left Nomad accepting any message as proven. Hundreds of addresses copied the same transaction and drained the bridge in…
Compromise of two of five multi-signature keys was enough to authorise withdrawals from Harmony's Horizon bridge, taking roughly $100m.
Attackers obtained enough Ronin validator signatures to forge withdrawals, draining 173,600 ETH and 25.5m USDC. The theft went unnoticed for six days.
A flaw in Wormhole's Solana signature verification let an attacker mint 120,000 wETH without depositing collateral. Jump Crypto replaced the shortfall.
An attacker exploited Poly Network's cross-chain contract to reassign the keeper role, taking roughly $611m — then returned substantially all of it.