2M BNB (around half a billion) possibly hacked, hacker leveraged it max and is moving it to other chain

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2M BNB (around half a billion) possibly hacked, hacker leveraged it max and is moving it to other chain

2M BNB (around half a billion) possibly hacked, hacker leveraged it max and is moving it to other chain

Around 2M BNB tokens seem to have been hacked, according to various accounts.

Warning from MevRefund

Transaction: https://bscscan.com/tx/0xebf83628ba893d35b496121fb8201666b8e09f3cbadf0e269162baa72efe3b8b

Wallet of the potential hacker: https://bscscan.com/address/0x489a8756c18c0b8b24ec2a2b9ff3d4d447f79bec

The wallet is moving the funds, first half of it to Venus to leverage it on stables, and then moving it to other chains via Stargate bridge

USDT has already blacklisted the wallet.

Various stable pools could get rekt as a lot of BNB has been leveraged

BNB has crashed in the last half hour

If its a hack, it seems to have happened via Binance Chain to Binance smart chain, potentially indicating that Binance was directly compromised. The wallet in question is now taking up onchain short-BNB positions

Updates:

Some are claiming official BNB Canonical bridge hacked, similar to Axie.

If true, this is a massive hack for BNB and a bad day for lotta people out there

Its official BSC Chain has been paused:

Official update from BNB Chain

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