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Five reported withdrawals from Ankr’s Ethereum cross-chain bridge on Nov. 9 followed the reuse of a previously redeemed Optimism deposit, according to incident reporting.
Blockaid’s 08:42:39 UTC alert said the deposit had been used to unlock bridge-held assets; its initial estimate was about $292,000 across roughly five transactions, and it described the exploit as ongoing at that time. Onchain Lens separately reported five withdrawals and a similar initial estimate.
Crypto.news’s later transaction review valued three affected asset groups at more than $303,000: about 82.91 ankrETH (~$216,370), 515,206 ankrPOL (~$56,372), and 7.98 million ANKR (~$30,857). Two other transferred assets, aMATICb and aETHb, were unpriced, so that estimate is not a total valuation. The report said its 03:49 ET check saw no further bridge activity after the withdrawals.
## What remains unknown
Crypto.news found no confirmation that Ankr’s RPC services or users’ personal wallets were compromised. The available transaction records did not establish how the attacker obtained valid authorization or whether the weakness involved receipt validation, signing, or another component. Ankr had not responded to Crypto.news by its 10:17 UTC publication, so root cause, wider scope, and reimbursement status were not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
Sources: Blockaid alert https://x.com/blockaid_/status/2119712260184527262 · Crypto.news transaction review https://crypto.news/ankr-ethereum-bridge-exploit-303k-loss/ · Onchain Lens alert https://x.com/OnchainLens/status/2119715004580876788
## Conclusion
The reported incident concerns Ankr’s Ethereum bridge; the wider impact remains unconfirmed. $ANKR chart: Binance Spot ANKR/USDT https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ANKR_USDT?type=spot. Check the chart for yourself, do your own research, and trade responsibly.
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Five suspicious withdrawals were enough to drain more than $303,000 from the Ankr bridge on the Ethereum network ⚖️ ANKR $ETH
A bridge is a tool that moves you from one network to another, but while your assets are being transferred, they’re held in the bridge’s code, not in your wallet. That’s a distinction many beginners miss.
The incident occurred on November 9, 2026, and initial indicators suggest it was linked to a deposit on Optimism that had already been paid out once and was then reused. In other words, the issue may lie in how the bridge accounts for deposits, not in users’ wallets themselves.

Just after 8 a.m. this morning, someone drained Ankr’s Ethereum cross-chain bridge. In 3 minutes, across 5 withdrawals, a little over $300,000 was gone. Blockaid sounded the alarm on X at 8:42 a.m., saying the attack was still ongoing. SlowMist’s root-cause analysis put the losses at an estimated $304,500. One thing to note: personal wallets were not affected this time. A bridge being drained does not mean your wallet was drained.
The method wasn’t complicated. On November 3, someone deposited 0.0044 ankrETH into the bridge on Optimism, worth just over $11, and withdrew it on Ethereum the same day. That deposit had already been settled. Six days later, the attacker used proof of that same deposit to alter five receipts, changing the recipient, token, and amount on each one, and directing them to five different tokens. The largest withdrawal was 82.91 ankrETH, worth $216,000. Together, the five withdrawals drained almost all the tokens listed in the bridge.