2049 Hack
What happened
2049 token project experienced a rugpull exit scam on Oct 12, 2023, with 82,471 USD worth of 399.84 WBNB stolen from PancakeSwap liquidity pool.
2049 is a BEP20 token trading on PancakeSwap. The scammer, who is not directly related to the deployer, exploited a backdoor function in the token contract to increase their balance by sending tokens to themselves. Before the incident, the scammer received 0.05 BNB from Binance.
The stolen funds, amounting to 82,471 USD worth of 399.84 WBNB, were transferred to another EOA and then distributed among multiple addresses.
Deployer Address:
https://bscscan.com/address/0xa6ABbBBa…D6fceB
Scammer Addresses:
https://bscscan.com/address/0xfCE24b0d…6a911e
https://bscscan.com/address/0xFcCe0c3B…8FD2d4
Token Swap Transaction:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xa6f7c4b8…5625b6
Transaction Receiving Funds from Binance:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x2457182f…2d6f23
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
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