Humanity Protocol’s founder says the company is overhauling its operational security after losing $36 million in a recent attack. The hack wasn’t a smart contract exploit — attackers targeted the human side of the system.
According to the team, malicious actors are increasingly shifting away from finding bugs in code and toward exploiting human behavior. Social engineering, credential theft, and insider threats are becoming the attack vectors of choice in crypto.
The $36M loss is a painful reminder that even protocols with audited smart contracts can be vulnerable at the operational level. Humanity Protocol says it’s implementing stricter access controls, better monitoring, and additional authentication layers.
As crypto matures, operational security — not just code security — is becoming the differentiator between protocols that survive and those that don’t.
This article was originally reported by Cointelegraph. Rewritten and published by The Coolest Info.
