{"id":611716,"date":"2026-06-09T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/humanity-says-compromised-laptop-led-to-36m-bridge-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:53:00","slug":"humanity-says-compromised-laptop-led-to-36m-bridge-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/humanity-says-compromised-laptop-led-to-36m-bridge-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity says compromised laptop led to $36M bridge attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9wYXNzd29yZC1mcmF1ZC1oYWNrZXItc2NhbTMtMS5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"Humanity says compromised laptop led to $36M bridge attack\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Humanity Protocol&#8217;s Terence Kwok said some multisig keys may have been accidentally backed up to a compromised device during setup.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity Protocol said an employee&#8217;s laptop compromise allowed attackers to seize bridge controls, upgrade contracts and steal over $36 million in H tokens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an incident update on Tuesday, the protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Humanityprot\/status\/2064281691016048761\">said<\/a> the Monday attack affected the H token across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The team said three of six Gnosis Safe owner keys were compromised, allowing attackers to take control of bridge administration on both networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once they had control, the attackers changed the bridge contracts into different malicious versions, Humanity said. On Ethereum, they drained around 141.2 million tokens. On BSC, they added a function that let them create unlimited tokens, then minted 200 million tokens directly to their own wallet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/humanity-protocol-laptop-bridge-exploit-h-token\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity Protocol&#8217;s Terence Kwok said some multisig keys may have been accidentally backed up to a compromised device during setup. Humanity Protocol said an employee&#8217;s laptop compromise allowed attackers to seize bridge controls, upgrade contracts and steal over $36 million in H tokens.\u00a0 In an incident update on Tuesday, the protocol said the Monday attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}