Loss of approximately $12.5 million, 79AU operational hot wallet suspected private key leak

Odaily reports that on BNB Chain, the hot wallet operated by 79thVault lost approximately $12.5 million, possibly due to a private key leak. The team typically used this hot wallet only for small transfers to the reward pool. Recently, the address transferred 2.01 million 79AU out of the trading pair to external addresses in 7 transactions, with amounts of 10,000, 100,000, 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, 500,000, and 500,000 tokens respectively. The attacker then sold 79AU back into the same trading pair through approximately 95 swaps, reducing the pool's USDT reserves from $15.2 million to $3.9 million, and cashed out 16,249 BNB, worth approximately $12.5 million. In addition, the operational key transferred another 3.79 BNB to the same external address, and another 500,000 79AU was transferred to other addresses.