Hacken’s cybersecurity firm blames a private key leak that allows a bad actor to mint and rob $ 250,000 worth of native Hacken token (HA) of the ecosystem, which led to it around 99% on Saturday.
In an x post, hacken Says The private key is connected to an account with a role in Ethereum and BNB chainled to “unauthorized hai minin and a dump” in decentralized exchange – cause A 99% fall in the Hai value from $ 0.015 to $ 0.000056.
Hai is currently trading for $ 0.00026.
Hacken team members said that since they revoked the compromised account with Minter from the token contract and regulated; However, based on Hacken’s current estimates, the bad actor still managed to flee with at least $ 250,000 worth of tokens.
“The main infrastructure is always separate from Hai Infra and remains safe. There is currently no evidence of any compromise beyond the private keys,” Hacken said.
Private key leak linked to bridge deployment
Hacken said the private key was compromised during “architectural changes” on the company’s blockchain bridge, which was applied “specifically to avoid risks like this,” said Hacken.
“Hacken’s bridge was built at a time when the market and tech were different.
To be careful, Hacken stopped the bridge transactions in the Ethereum and BNB chain until further notice and warned it No airdrops planned And that any posts that say otherwise are scams.
Purchased by tokens after the hack was not supported
Chop CEO Dyma Budorin Says In an X post on Sunday that all the tokens on the affected networks, the BNB Smart Chain and Ethereum, purchased after the hack “were not supported in the new tokenomics.”
“Our goal is to always convert Hai to a security token that represents Hacken Equity and is flexible in crypto. Now is the time to speed up the implementation of the idea,” he said.
Hacken said today’s long -term goal is to change Hai to a regulated financial tool that integrates the token utility with equity rights by integrating Hai and Hacken shareholders.
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All the legitimate balances of the user will remain monitored, and the Hai tokens will have the option to change later, with details coming, according to Hacken.
Hackers steal $ 1.6 billion in the first quarter this year
Blockchain Security Firm Peckshield said in an April report Those hackers steal more than $ 1.63 billion in crypto in the first quarter of 2025.
Recently, the liquid staking protocol meta pool Suffered a similar exploitation on June 18When an attack was able to make mint 9,705 of the token mpeth of liquid protocol worth nearly $ 27 million but only managed to steal around 52.5 ether (Eth), costs only $ 132,000.
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