$285M Solana Hack: The Attack That Changed Crypto Forever
Coin Bureau·2026-04-06 14:29
On the 1st of April 2026, the Salana based perpetuals exchange Drift Protocol suffered a catastrophic $285 million exploit that sent its native token crashing more than 36% in a matter of hours. Now, many immediately assumed that yet another complex smart contract vulnerability had been weaponized by anonymous hackers. But in fact, no code was broken and absolutely no smart contract bugs were exploited.Instead, this was a meticulously orchestrated six-month intelligence operation executed by North Korean st ...