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Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 18:27 UTC

HyperBridge

Light-client proof verifier accepted malformed headers.

Ongoing
Funds stolen
$76.90M
Recovered
$3.00M4%
Still outstanding
$73.90M
Chain
Arbitrum
Category
Bridge
Attack vector
Bridge Exploit
Reported by
CertiK
Incident ID
e13

Exploit & recovery timeline

  1. Apr 18, 2026 · 16:27 UTC
    Attack preparation

    Attacker wallets funded and staged ahead of the bridge exploit exploit against HyperBridge.

  2. Apr 18, 2026 · 18:27 UTC
    Exploit executed

    $76.9M drained from HyperBridge on Arbitrum via Bridge Exploit.

  3. Apr 18, 2026 · 19:27 UTC
    Detected by CertiK

    CertiK flagged the anomalous transactions and published an initial alert.

  4. Apr 18, 2026 · 22:27 UTC
    Protocol response

    HyperBridge paused affected contracts or withdrawals and began tracing outbound flows.

  5. Apr 19, 2026 · 18:27 UTC
    Funds traced

    Stolen assets followed through mixers, bridges, and exchange deposit addresses.

  6. Apr 21, 2026 · 18:27 UTC
    Recovery effort ongoing

    $3.0M frozen so far; tracing continues.