79AU Hot Wallet Suspected of Private Key Leak, Losses Approximately $12.5 Million

On the BNB Chain, the hot wallet operated by 79thVault has suffered losses of approximately $12.5 million due to a private key leak. The team typically uses this hot wallet for small transfers to the reward pool. Recently, this address transferred a total of 2.01 million 79AU to external addresses in 7 transactions, with amounts of 10,000, 100,000, 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, 500,000, and 500,000 tokens respectively. The attacker subsequently sold back 79AU to the same trading pair through approximately 95 exchanges, reducing the USDT reserves 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 3.79 BNB to the same external address, along with another 500,000 79AU to other addresses.

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