On July 12 (UTC+8), Bonzo Finance, a lending protocol built on Hedera, suffered an oracle attack, resulting in losses of approximately $9 million. The attacker exploited collateral—SAUCE tokens whose price had been artificially inflated—and borrowed assets from the protocol far exceeding their actual value.
According to Bonzo’s preliminary incident report, the attacker deposited only 250 SAUCE tokens (worth just a few dollars) and then submitted a single price update that artificially inflated the token’s price by roughly 12 orders of magnitude. Subsequently, the attacker borrowed $6.63 million in $USDC and 34.5 million wrapped $HBAR (wHBAR) from the lending pool.The incident reportedly originated from a vulnerability in $Supra’s on-chain oracle validator, which erroneously accepted SAUCE price data with a zeroed-out signature. $Supra has confirmed the issue and completed its fix. Bonzo emphasized that this attack did not stem from any vulnerability in Bonzo’s smart contracts or the underlying Hedera network itself.Data shows that Q2 2026 has become the quarter with the highest number of attacks in cryptocurrency industry history, with 83 security incidents recorded and total losses amounting to approximately $755 million. Among these, cross-chain bridge attacks accounted for roughly $351 million in losses, while admin key compromises and fake token price manipulation accounted for 37% of the quarter’s total losses.Amid ongoing security incidents, the DeFi sector’s total value locked (TVL) has declined from approximately $115 billion in January to over $70 billion in June—a cumulative drop of 39%. According to CryptoRank, the industry has experienced 121 security incidents year-to-date, with total losses reaching approximately $942 million. Persistent security issues may further erode user confidence and accelerate capital outflows.Notably, in February, YieldBlox—a lending protocol in the Stellar ecosystem—experienced a similar incident. The attacker manipulated the USTRY collateral price path to steal approximately $10 million in assets from its lending pool. (Source: PANews)[ME News]