The popular DeFi Protocol Ankr suffered a cyber attack wherein the hacker having minted a thousand trillion of the reward-bearing token for BNB.
The tokens were staked on the protocol (aBNBc) and the hackers made away with about 20 trillion which they later converted to BNB and later 5 million USDC.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/unknown-hacker-makes-away-with-5-million-from-ankr-protocol/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/ankr
"id": "ank11231222",
"linkid": "ankr",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "12/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Financial Services',
'name': 'Ankr',
'type': 'DeFi Protocol'}],
'description': 'The popular DeFi Protocol Ankr suffered a cyber attack '
'wherein the hacker having minted a thousand trillion of the '
'reward-bearing token for BNB. The tokens were staked on the '
'protocol (aBNBc) and the hackers made away with about 20 '
'trillion which they later converted to BNB and later 5 '
'million USDC.',
'impact': {'financial_loss': ['20 trillion aBNBc', '5 million USDC']},
'motivation': ['Financial Gain'],
'title': 'Ankr DeFi Protocol Cyber Attack',
'type': 'Cyber Attack'}