Ankr Confirmed ABNBc Token Attack Incident Made By Former Team Members

Key Points:

• Ankr has identified the miner as a group of former employees.
• The group is working with the agencies to prosecute the hackers.
• The team has now developed a compensation plan for affected users.

The recent report on the aBNBc token hack has been updated by Ankr and states that the perpetrators were identified as former employees of the group. Legal action is currently being taken.

On December 21, Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr announced the results of an investigation into the exploitation of the aBNBc token vulnerability. The announcement said a former team member carried out a malicious supply chain attack and inserted an updated malicious package, possibly to compromise its private key.

Ankr said it is working with law enforcement to prosecute former members of the group and bring them to justice.

“A former team member (who is no longer with Ankr) maliciously acted to conduct a supply chain attack, inserting a malicious code package that was able to compromise our private key once a legitimate update was made. We are in the process of working with law enforcement to prosecute the former team member and bring them to justice.”

The announcement wrote

The protocol has also learned from experience and is working to strengthen internal HR processes and security measures to strengthen its security position in the future.

Ankr is committed to compensating all users affected by the exploit. Some measures have already begun to be taken to initiate user compensation, the Team used our own Advanced API Tool to find every aBNBc token holder in 10 seconds – a task that can takes several hours to complete using normal query methods on a dedicated node.

As mentioned in an earlier Coincu News article, on December 2, 10 trillion aBNBc was minted and the hackers updated the smart contract to a more malicious version, resulting in a minting vulnerability. term in the aBNBc token contract. Ankr then airdropped the ankrBNB token to compensate users for the damage.

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