The Nomad Bridge Hack Explained

Extropy.IO
4 min readAug 6, 2022

Thanks to Rekt and @samczsun for their insights.

On 1st August 2022 the Nomad bridge was hacked and within 3 hours about $190 M of funds were taken. The attack affected related projects such as EVMOS, Milkomeda and Moonbeam.

August 1st 2022

The exploits unfolds…

The exploit was spotted as unusual activity by @spreekaway, shown in this thread

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