Leaderboard
312All-time rank
Ankr
Dec 2, 2022
$5.0M
Lost
$5.0M
Recovered
$5.0M
Net loss
$0
Full100% recovered
On December 2, 2022, a former Ankr employee exploited an access control flaw in the aBNBc staking token contract, minting 10 trillion tokens and converting ~$5M to USDC. Binance froze $3M; Ankr reimbursed affected users from company reserves.
- Target
- DeFi
- Classification
- Access Control
- Technique
- Improper Access Control
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
BSC
Event timeline
- Dec 2, 2022Exploit executed — $5.0M drained via improper access control
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Full 100%