Incident All ledgers
Harmony Bridge: $100.0m
Harmony Bridge lost $100.0m on 23 June 2022. Ranked 43rd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 23 June 2022
- Lost
- $100.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Validator Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum, BSC
On June 23, 2022, attackers drained about $100M in ETH, BNB, USDT, USDC and DAI from Harmony's Horizon Bridge on Ethereum and BSC. North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group/APT38 compromised validator keys, exploiting a weak 2-of-5 quorum.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 43rd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 10th in 2022.
- It accounts for 40.0% of the $249.9m in known losses in June 2022.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 1.1% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Harmony
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026 | Harmony Bridge | $3.2m | Chain | Bridge Logic Flaw | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Jul 2023 | Multichain | $126.0m | DeFi Protocol | Validator Key Compromised | — |
| 31 Jul 2026 | COLDCARD | $116.0m | Wallet | Weak Key Generation | — |
| 19 Aug 2021 | Liquid Global | $91.3m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 22 Nov 2023 | Heco Bridge | $86.6m | DeFi Protocol | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 23 Jan 2025 | Phemex | $85.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2022 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “Harmony Bridge, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/harmony-bridge-2022-06-23/. How this is built