The Ankr protocol was hacked, the attacker earned $15.5 millio | DEFI WORLD

The Ankr protocol was hacked, the attacker earned $15.5 million in 2 minutes. The hacker gained access to the developer’s private key and changed the smart contract of the Ankr protocol, after which he minted 20 trillion wrapped aBNBc tokens.

The price of aBNBc fell by 99.5%. After that, the hacker bought 183,885 aBNBc for just 10 BNB ($2,879), then received 16 million Hay tokens in Helio Protocol secured by aBNBc, and exchanged Hay for 15.5 million BUSD.

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