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Hedera is committed to setting the industry standard for transparency, reporting, and business process maturity. We operate in a dynamic environment and fast-changing landscape, and the Council will be reviewing and evolving our reporting methodology over time.

On Thursday, March 9, an attacker exploited the Smart Contract Service code of the Hedera mainnet to transfer Hedera Token Service (HTS) tokens held by certain DEXs’ accounts to the attacker’s own account. The following is a summary of the attack: how it happened, steps taken to pause the attack and then permanently prevent it from happening again.

We believe that no honest count of transactions should include 'how we internally came to consensus on the order of whatever volume of transactions were submitted by external parties’, however that might be done on different ledgers.