February 3, 2022 By Pierluigi Paganini
Threat actors have stolen $325 million in cryptocurrency leveraging a bug in the Wormhole communication bridge.
Wormhole, one of the most popular bridges that links the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, lost about $325 million in an attack that took place on Wednesday.
This is the second-biggest hack of a DeFi platform ever, just after the $600 million Poly Network security breach. Experts pointed out that this is largest attack to date on Solana, which is a high-performance blockchain like Ethereum and that is increasing its popularity thanks to the interest in the non-fungible token (NFT) and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems.
