More than $320 million stolen in latest apparent crypto hack

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Wormhole, one of the most popular bridges linking the ethereum and solana blockchains, lost about $320 million in an apparent hack Wednesday afternoon.

An analysis from blockchain cybersecurity firm CertiK shows that the attacker's profits thus far are at least $251 million worth of ethereum, nearly $47 million in solana, and more than $4 million in USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the price of the U.S. dollar.Auston Bunsen

Preliminary analysis from CertiK shows that the attacker exploited a vulnerability on the solana side of the Wormhole bridge to create 120,000 so-called "wrapped" ethereum tokens for themselves. It appears that they then used these tokens to claim ethereum that was held on the ethereum side of the bridge.

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