BlockBeats report, October 8: According to Defimon Alerts, 79thVault on BNB Chain may have suffered a loss of approximately $12.5 million due to a private key compromise. The team’s hot wallet typically makes only small transfers to the reward pool. However, recently, this address transferred 2.01 million 79AU tokens to external addresses in seven separate transactions, in amounts of 10,000, 100,000, 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, 500,000, and 500,000 tokens respectively.
The attacker executed approximately 95 swap transactions selling back into the same trading pair, reducing the USDT reserve in the pool from $15.2 million to $3.9 million and cashing out 16,249 BNB (approximately $12.5 million). Additionally, the operational key transferred another 3.79 BNB to the same external address. Furthermore, 500,000 79AU tokens were transferred to other addresses.