Harmony's latest security incident has gone from bad to surreal. What initially looked like an unauthorized mint of about 4 billion ONE has turned into a reconstructed total of roughly 3.01 trillion forged tokens, and the network's chosen fix is equally dramatic: roll the blockchain back to a point before the exploit and throw away everything recorded after it.
Harmony says the forged supply was created through six cross-shard transactions and sent to four attacker-controlled wallets. One wallet alone moved 2.385 trillion ONE through 477 successful transfers in just 106 sec...
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