Binance hacker mistakenly dumped PROM into an empty pool, $5 million worth of tokens only exchanged for $71.

BlockBeats news, November 1st, according to Lookonchain monitoring, the Binance attacker made an operational error while selling altcoins, dumping 908,793 PROM (worth approximately $5 million) into a nearly depleted liquidity pool on Uniswap V2, ultimately receiving only 0.0316 ETH, valued at about $71.

This transaction means the attacker lost approximately $5 million in a single operation.

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