Reports Claim Polkadot Bridge Vulnerability Was Exploited to Mint 1 Billion DOT

The specific core claim is supported by two fetched reports: PANews article '派盾：10亿枚DOT在以太坊上被铸造并抛售 | PANews' says 1 billion DOT were minted and sold on Ethereum, and 'Hyperbridge网关遭合约攻击，黑客通过铸造并出售10亿枚DOT获利约23.7万美元 | PANews' attributes the incident to fake messages that changed admin rights for a Polkadot token contract on Ethereum. That second source aligns closely with the user's wording about CertiK Alert and indicates the exploit affected an Ethereum-side token/bridge contract, not the native Polkadot chain itself. The Odaily link traced to a PeckShieldAlert X post, which further supports that this was not just one outlet repeating another, though the X post could not be directly fetched here. I found no fetched authoritative source in this run contradicting the claim. Confidence is medium because direct access to the primary X posts and an official Polkadot/Hyperbridge confirmation were unavailable in the tool results.