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Charles Hoskinson was all praise for the quick recovery of the Cardano network after a recent attack caused a temporary split in the blockchain. The situation was rapidly contained by engineers on the project. Charles Hoskinson Comments on Cardano Network Attack Charles Hoskinson said that this quick reaction of the network has proven how strong it is. He mentioned that in less than a day, the engineers were able to stop and trace the attacker. In addition, Hoskinson noted it was not an attack performed randomly. According to him, the person had been planning it for months. Cardano works so fast that we forked, fixed, and caught the guy all in one day. He was quite active in the Fake Fred discord. It was absolutely personal and now he’s trying to walk it back because he knows the FBI is already involved https://t.co/MNK6d7bEWv — Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) November 21, 2025 The attacker targeted Hoskinson’s personal stake pool, which basically caused problems across the network. This incident was temporary, and it impacted all users. Validators, for example, could not receive block rewards. This, according to Hoskinson, will take a number of weeks to repair. He also added that a criminal investigation by the FBI has already started on the matter. An incident report from Intersect said the attack occurred on November 21, 2025. Explaining it further, the report mentioned that this was due to a bug that involved a software library. The transaction took advantage of this bug. This allowed it to skip validation, thus leading the nodes to diverge in the first place. This made the Cardano mainnet split into two separate chains. The incident occurred within a day of a similar event on the Preview testnet. This led to a swift action by the engineering teams at Input Output,…

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