Humanity Protocol token jumps 44% after $36M exploit

Humanity Protocol’s H token rose as much as 44% after the project published a post-mortem on a June 8–9 security breach that triggered a prior crash wiping about $1 billion from its market value.

Humanity’s investigation found attackers compromised private keys that had been backed up to a developer machine infected with malware. The device contained an admin hot wallet private key and Safe signers that controlled contracts on both Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain. Attackers stole about 147 million H and minted roughly 300 million H on BSC, for a combined impact of about 447 million H tokens.

The post-mortem states: “We are still determining the full root cause of how the device was compromised and the exact timeline of when the attacker gained access. We have engaged external security experts to conduct a forensic investigation of the compromised devices. We will share further findings with the community as the investigation progresses.”

As part of recovery efforts, the team published the post-mortem, launched a live tracker of exploiter addresses and downstream transfers, and shared that tracker with exchanges and analytics providers. The project offered a $1 million Tether (USDT) bounty for actionable intelligence to aid recovery and pledged that any recovered assets would be directed toward token buybacks.

A community message included a link to the live tracker and invited holders to follow transfers in real time.

Security risks remain. The attacker retains control of the ProxyAdmin on the ERC–BSC bridge and control of the BSC token, leaving open the possibility of further unauthorized mints. A scheduled token unlock on June 25 could add fresh supply to the market.

Price data showed H trading near $0.227 after the rebound, up about 44% in 24 hours but down roughly 60% on the week and about 74% below its June 2 all-time high of $0.844. During the initial breach and sell-off, the token fell more than 80% within hours.

Humanity has engaged external security experts to continue the forensic investigation and will provide updates to the community as new findings emerge.