2049 Hack

TOTAL LOST $82K
Low Rugpull

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

Classification Token
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract 2049

Evidence & learning

Sources and on-chain records

Practice this exploit pattern safely

Work through hands-on labs covering real exploit mechanics, review techniques, and defensive patterns.