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Hacker Returns 15,000 BNB to 79thVault in Rare Crypto Recovery

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79thVault disclosed an incident tied to its 79AU pool on BNB Chain after tokens were drained and the proceeds were moved in BNB. The project later said its operator’s private key was compromised, and afterward 15,000 BNB was returned to a hot wallet, while one account of the attack still left the total proceeds unsettled.

Key claims & sources

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On Oct. 7, 2.01 million 79AU tokens were drained from a PancakeSwap liquidity pool, and about 16,249 BNB was then moved away.
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The attacker sold 2.01 million 79AU tokens, converted the proceeds into about 16,200 BNB, and moved the funds away from the protocol.
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79thVault’s hot wallet later received 15,000 BNB, and one report says a separate accounting still leaves the total proceeds from the attack unsettled.

What it means

Users and holders of the 79AU pool are the ones most likely to notice this first, because funds were drained from the pool and later 15,000 BNB was sent back to a hot wallet. In practical terms, the event touched the pool’s assets and then partially reversed that movement, so anyone watching the protocol would see both the drain and the return on-chain.

Before this, the pool had burn activity tied to 79% of its liquidity-provider receipts, but that did not stop the drain, and residual transfer permissions were still present in the token contract. What changed in practice is that the incident exposed a permission path that remained usable even after the burn activity, while the later return of funds did not erase the fact that the attack had already occurred.

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Oct 9 03:52
The Crypto Guardian scoop our clock
Breaks the event: $12.5M
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Oct 9 18:24
Crypto Economy adds
Adds $11.5M; brings into the story: BNB

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