79thVault Loses $12.5M in BNB Chain Admin Key Breach
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79thVault Exploit Loss Rises to $14.35M, Not $12.5M
The suspected 79thVault exploit was larger than initially reported, with updated onchain analysis showing that privileged transactions removed 2.52 million 79AU from the project’s PancakeSwap liquidity pool and ultimately extracted approximately $14.35 million in USDT.Initial security alerts identified seven transfers totaling 2.01 million 79AU and approximately $12.5 million in proceeds. A transaction-level reconstruction by Bitquery later iden…
79thVault on BNB Chain lost an estimated $12.5 million when its operator wallet withdrew 2.01 million 79AU from PancakeSwap; the incident is being treated as a private key compromise.
An alert about 79thVault in BNB Chain points to a possible private key leak: a hot wallet transferred 2.01 million tokens 79AU and, after a series of swaps, the pool reduced its USDT reserve and recorded a reported output of 16,249 BNB, valued at about $12.5 million.
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