For many burning the midnight oil and watching for up-to-date news on cryptocurrency, a real-time disaster could be seen unfolding over an hour-long period in which the Nomad Bridge was slowly drained of its contents thanks to a steady exploit that was found out and used until the assets were gone.

For those waking up the next day to see another pillar of the crypto ecosystem torn down by its users and over $190 million in losses, a rude awakening and a small hope of fund recovery are in store. While not the largest hack done in cryptocurrency history, according to initial reports on the matter, it appears to be one of the easiest to have been accomplished, according to those who saw it happen live.

This is believed to be because the hacker themself wasn't that knowledgeable or skilled and could have possibly stumbled upon the exploit without knowing how to truly capitalize on it immediately.

Shortly after the hack was finished, there were a lot of people posting graphs of different coins talking about what to do after the fact. Some claimed that white hat hackers, ones who supposedly hack for good, were cleaning out Nomad Bridge after the exploit was found that way the funds could be properly restored to people who put the funds in the bridge in the first place, though speculations suggest that's just Copium talking.

Many started to already increase the Copege by posting about their losses and how hacks like this are commonplace and shouldn't shatter the resiliency of cryptocurrency communities as news of the massive hack spread on platforms like Twitter overnight.