# Wormhole Hack - It May Not Be a Bad Thing

**Published by:** [xuanling11](https://paragraph.com/@xuanling11/)
**Published on:** 2022-02-06
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@xuanling11/wormhole-hack-it-may-not-be-a-bad-thing

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Photo by Anton Nazaretian on UnsplashWormhole got hacked and lost $321 million in the recent hacking incident. Wormhole is a cross-chain message-passing protocol that connects Solana, Ethereum, Terra, and Binance Smart Chain. TL;DR Wormhole got hacked. Solana got its first hacking incident. It is an opportunity for Solana to improve its security. Hacking The hacker was able to mint 120K Wormhole-wrapped Ether on Solana. They then bridged 93,750 of these tokens to Ethereum and withdrew the unwrapped Ether. Vulnerability The signature verification is a vulnerable point to let attackers insert commends and false messages so that they can bypass Wormhole’s verify_signatures function to fool the code and successfully withdraw Ethers from the network. Solana Security Hole Solana has a security vulnerability that needs to be fixed. It helps the blockchain to improve but at the same time makes Solana worth hacking. Cross-Chain Vulnerability Running cross-chain is always a risky business. It tests all cross-chain platform security and its own security. Hackers love to challenge such platforms and to find a loophole to take massive funds away. In Conclusion Hacking will never stop until the blockchain has improved to become unhackable.

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