$323 million in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole

From theblockcrypto.com

According to a series of etherscan transaction records, an attacker has exploited Wormhole, a bridge between the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, for close to $256 million in ETH. Wormhole is a bridging protocol that enables assets to move across various blockchain protocols. When a user sends assets from one chain to another, the bridge locks the assets and mints a wrapped version of the funds on the destination chain. It is not yet clear how the attacker executed the exploit, but it resulted in the theft of 93,750 ETH, worth about $256 million at current prices. This is one of the largest exploits of a ... (full story)