Bridged Polkadot Attacker Moves $269,000 to Tornado Cash

The exploit mechanics in the statement are strongly supported by the fetched Yahoo Finance report, which says Hyperbridge was exploited on April 13, 2026 via forged cross-chain messages and that roughly 1 billion bridged DOT were minted on Ethereum after the attacker gained admin control over the token contract. That directly matches the statement's core description. The PANews article, citing Arkham, supports the related claim that the attacker later moved the stolen funds to Tornado Cash and places the stolen amount at about $269,000. The main uncertainty is the statement's more specific claim that Hyperbridge itself raised the loss estimate to about $2.5 million. In this run, I was unable to fetch a Hyperbridge official page or the cited X posts directly, so that exact revised estimate is not validated from a primary source here. Because the core facts are corroborated but the $2.5 million update lacks a fetched primary confirmation, the overall claim is best assessed as likely true rather than fully confirmed.