Binance’s largest crypto-rope has suspended the withdrawal of funds for its customers due to a hacker attack on the Ankr platform. About this said the head of the exchange Chanpen Zhao on his Twitter.
According to him, the Ankr service may have been hacked, as well as a similar Hay. The initial analysis of the incident showed that the hacker hacked the closed key of the developer and replaced the smart contract with the malicious.
Zhao also noted that Binance suspended the withdrawal of funds. About $ 3 million are frozen, which hackers transfer cryptocurrencies to a centralized exchange for the purpose of withdrawal. Peckshield estimated that as a result of the attack, the fraudster received about $ 15 million.
Ankr – Web3 infrastructure supplier for the BNB ecosystem. As a platform of cloud computing, Ankr distributes idle computing power. In addition, the protocol offers stakeing and other options for earnings on BEP-20 tokens.