79AU's operational hot wallet suspected private key leak, resulting in a loss of approximately $12.5 million.

BlockBeats news, October 8th, according to Defimon Alerts monitoring, 79thVault on BNB Chain may have lost approximately $12.5 million due to a private key leak. The team's hot wallet operations typically only involve small transfers to the reward pool. However, recently, this address transferred 2.01 million 79AU from the trading pair to an external address 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 sold back to the same trading pair through about 95 swaps, reducing the pool's USDT reserves from $15.2 million to $3.9 million, and cashed out 16,249 BNB (approximately $12.5 million). In addition, the operational key transferred another 3.79 BNB to the same external address. Another 500,000 79AU was transferred to other addresses.