Binance Hack is Making CZ All Jittery and Confused!
The recent Binance hack has affected several crypto tokens, causing another round of losses
The cryptocurrency sector is having a particularly difficult year. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, is looking into a hacking incident that happened and affected several crypto tokens. A private key, which is used to encrypt or decrypt data, had been compromised, according to the company’s founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was all jittery when the Binance hack ordeal went down.
The Ankr and Hay tokens were impacted, Zhao said on Twitter. “Initial analysis is developer private key was hacked, and the hacker updated the smart contract to a more malicious one.” CZ tweeted that Binance had just stopped processing withdrawals. He seemed to be referring to the BNB loyalty token for Ankr, which Binance claims was hacked. Hay is an example of a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency whose value is tied to another asset. Computer code that automatically executes all or a portion of an agreement is known as a “smart contract.” It is typically kept on a platform with a blockchain.
A hacker was able to mint 6 quadrillion tokens, which were converted into BNB tokens and transferred through the cryptocurrency mixer platform Tornado Cash,” claimed Matt Hussey, the author of the Zero Knowledge crypto newsletter. It’s yet another illustration of how many of the contracts that support the protocols and exchanges in the crypto space are vulnerable, he continued. In a tweet, Binance reassured its followers that “this is not an attack” against the business and that an investigation was being conducted. While this was happening, Ankr posted on Twitter that it was “committed to compensating affected users.” The damage was estimated to be worth no more than US$5 [million USD] by the Ankr team, according to the statement. A request for additional details did not immediately receive a response from Binance.
The alleged attack occurred as the market for digital assets is reeling from the financial fallout caused by the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX. In October, the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis reported that in the first ten months of the year, 125 attacks had resulted in the theft of more than US$3 billion from the cryptocurrency industry and that 2022 was on pace to set a record for such exploits.
The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, has confirmed that more than US$100 million has been stolen by hackers from its system. The hacker initially stole 2 million BNB tokens, which are worth roughly US$568 million, according to the Binance Blockchain, also known as the BNB Chain. However, the company suspended the BMB Chain, which prevented the cybercriminals from transferring the remaining tokens and caused more than US$100 million to disappear. The impact of the breach, according to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, is estimated to be between US$100 million to US$110 million.
