Cryptocurrency hacker who stole $ 100 million to be sought by FBI

According to the Harmony blockchain team, the FBI and cybersecurity companies will investigate the hacker’s attack on the Horizon cross-chain bridge. The developers hope that by working together they will be able to find the culprit and recover the stolen $ 100 million.

Harmony is working around the clock as we continue our investigation alongside the FBI and multiple cyber security firms.

Updates will be shared as information is gathered.

— Harmony 💙 (@harmonyprotocol) June 24, 2022

Today, an unknown person withdrew tokens from the Horizon cross-chain bridge, then sent the funds to another wallet and exchanged them on the Uniswap decentralized exchange. As a result, Harmony representatives temporarily suspended Horizon’s operation.

Due to the incident, the Harmony token (ONE) dropped in price by 10% per day. At the time of writing, its value is $ 0.024. Although the Harmony team assured users that the problems did not affect the trustless bridge for bitcoin, all funds are currently safe in decentralized storage.