Black Hole Hack
What happened
Black Hole token suffered a price manipulation attack on Oct 11, 2023, resulting in a loss of 1,275,981 USDT.
Black Hole (BH) is a BEP20 token on Binance Smart Chain. On Oct 11, 2023, BH token was exploited through a price manipulation attack. The attacker used a flashloan to target the BH/USDT trading pair on PancakeSwap.
By swapping USDT for BH at a low price and extracting liquidity at a higher price, the attacker drained an estimated 1,275,981 USDT from the exchange. The attack was executed with approximately 4.16 USD in fees on the BNB Chain. Following the attack, the attacker transferred their profits to Tornado Cash to avoid being traced and frozen.
Attacker Address:
https://bscscan.com/address/0xfdbfceea…a63464
Malicious Transaction:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xc11e4020…007662
Malicious Contract Address:
https://bscscan.com/address/0x216ccfd4…76480c
TornadoCash Deposit Transaction Example:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x807c3971…98b288
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
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