Morning Edition · Saturday, November 14, 2026Published at 12:48 AM EST · New York

Initia Halts Its Chain After a Stolen Cloud Key Lets an Attacker Forge Rollup Withdrawals Worth $3.27 Million

It is Initia's second exploit in under three weeks, and the public exploit archive DeFiHackLabs also logged smaller attacks on BNB Chain and Ethereum, bringing its count to 909 incidents.

Initia, a layer-1 network that hosts application rollups, says an attacker got into its infrastructure on November 9 through a command injection attack using a compromised Google Cloud key that it used to provision private nodes. The intrus…