A Compromised Private Key Just Cost Humanity Protocol More Than $36 Million

By Isaac • June 9, 2026 8:16 am •

Humanity Protocol, a project built around proving you are a real human, lost control of a private key. The damage spread fast across two chains.

CoinDesk reported on June 9, 2026 that the H token crashed more than 80% after the hack. About 17 wallets tied to the project were emptied, with losses topping $32 million and still climbing.

The attacker did not sit on the stolen tokens. CoinDesk reported the thief was selling stolen H for ether and minted another 100 million H on BNB Chain, worth roughly $11 million in fresh sell pressure.

Founder Terence Kwok confirmed the cause on X and told users to back away from the project’s core infrastructure.

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