White-Hat Hackers Cracked Aptos With a $3,000 Server — $70 Billion Was on the Line

Security firm Hexens found a type-confusion bug in Aptos's Move VM that let a $3,000 server break a core safety guarantee with 90%+ success rate — putting $70B at systemic risk. The patch dropped within hours. No funds lost. But the close call exposed a fault line under every Move-based chain.