BNB Chain Back Online Following $568 Million Exploit
BNB Chain, the native blockchain behind the Binance crypto exchange, has come back online after being suspended due to an exploit that drained around $600 million in crypto assets.
On October 6, Binance announced the suspension of deposits and withdrawals from its BNB chain after it identified that a hacker transferred approximately 2 million BNB tokens, worth around $590 million, to a now-blacklisted wallet.
In a Reddit post, the Binance team said an exploit of the cross-chain bridge BSC Token Hub resulted in extra BNB, adding that they asked validators to temporarily suspend BNB Smart Chain (BSC).
"The issue is contained now. Your funds are safe. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates accordingly. The Community has already played a pivotal role in assisting and helping freeze any transfers. All funds are safe," the report read.
Shortly after the suspension, the blockchain reported that network validators are back online and now “confirming their status,” as well as upgrading community infrastructure.
In a post-mortem, the BNB Chain team explained that they had to contact community validators one by one in order to halt the chain and stop the incident from spreading. "It was not that easy as BNB Smart Chain has 26 active validators at present and 44 in total in different time zones," the team said.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", also Tweeted about the incident, saying they asked validators to temporarily suspend BSC in order to contain the issue. He noted that the impact was minimal, about a quarter of the last BNB burn.
The BNB team said that the exploit was through "a sophisticated forging of the low-level proof into one common library." Anonymous blockchain security
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