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DeFi Protocol Ankr Says Ex-Employee Caused $5M Exploit
The company is working with law enforcement to prosecute the attacker.
A former employee of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Ankr maliciously caused a $5 million exploit earlier this month, according to a statement published on Ankr's website.
The ex-employee inserted a malicious code package to conduct a supply chain attack, which allowed a user to mint 6 quadrillion aBNBc tokens, the company said. The attacker then converted those minted tokens for Binance Coin (BNB) before sending the ill-gotten gains to crypto mixer Tornado Cash. They eventually managed to swap the BNB tokens for 5 million USDC.
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"We are in the process of working with law enforcement to prosecute the former team member and bring them to justice," Ankr said in the statement.
Following the exploit, Ankr reimbursed impacted aBNBc or aBNBb token holders by airdropping ankrBNB and also airdropped BNB to all affected DeFi liquidity providers.
Oliver Knight
Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.
