Latest DeFi hack targeting BSC sees $12.7M in Bitcoin stolen from pNetwork

Latest DeFi hack targeting BSC sees $12.7M in Bitcoin stolen from pNetwork

Roughly $12.7 million worth of tokenized Bitcoin has been stolen from the BSC-based cross-chain composability platform pNetwork. Cross-chain DeFi platform pNetwork has become the latest protocol to be targeted by hackers on Binance Smart Chain, reporting a loss of roughly $12.7 million worth of Bitcoin. According to a Twitter thread published by pNetwork on Sept. 20, the incursion resulted in 277 pBTC being siphoned from the exchange. The hackers made off with the majority of the network’s collateral, pNetwork added.1/N We're sorry to inform the community that an attacker was able to....


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