79AU2026-10-08 07:49:0879th Vault hot wallet on BNB Chain may have lost about $12.5 million in suspected private key leakDefimon Alerts said 79th Vault on BNB Chain may have suffered a loss of about $12.5 million after what appears to be a private key compromise involving its operational hot wallet. The monitoring account said the wallet was typically used only for small transfers into the reward pool, but it recently moved 2.01 million 79AU out of the trading pair to an external address in seven transactions. Those transfers were listed as 10,000, 100,000, 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, 500,000 and 500,000 79AU. The attacker then swapped the tokens back into the same trading pair through about 95 transactions. As that happened, the pool’s USDT reserves fell from $15.2 million to $3.9 million. Defimon Alerts said the attacker cashed out 16,249 BNB, worth about $12.5 million by its estimate. The monitoring update also said the operational key sent another 3.79 BNB to the same external address. Separately, another 500,000 79AU was transferred to other addresses. The information was cited from a post by Defimon Alerts.20
Whale Movemen2026-10-09 02:03:00Crypto and macro headlines from Oct. 8 to Oct. 9: exploit, regulation, funding and on-chain movesA dense run of crypto, macro and AI-related developments landed between Oct. 8 and Oct. 9. DeFi protocol 79th Vault was exploited for about $12.51 million after 10,000 79AU tokens were stolen and swapped into 16,249 BNB, with 30 BNB later sent to KuCoin. In Europe, the European Securities and Markets Authority said crypto-asset service providers in the EU must stop offering services tied to non-MiCA-compliant stablecoins and unwind existing exposure within three months, no later than Jan. 8, 2027. On-chain, a wallet labeled by Arkham as U.S. government funds seized from the Bitfinex hack moved 12,267.02 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, while CoinGlass data showed $455 million in liquidations across the crypto derivatives market in one hour, with longs accounting for roughly 93.7%. Elsewhere, Sui-based Bitcoin finance infrastructure project Hashi said its mainnet rollout will begin this month with more than $500 million in capital commitments, and several companies including Catalyst, Arena, Meanwhile and Union Square Ventures disclosed new funding or fund launches. The period also brought updates from Pyth DAO, Cardano, Aptos, Coinbase, Google Cloud, Anthropic and Moscow Exchange.30
79th Vault2026-10-09 02:04:4579th Vault says operator private key was compromised, opens white-hat settlement talks79th Vault said its 79AU token was attacked on Oct. 7 because of a flaw in account permission management. According to the team, the attacker obtained the operator’s private key, used those permissions to extract tokens from the contract, triggered a brief abnormal price spike, and then swapped the assets on-chain into USDT and later into BNB. The project said emergency fixes have been applied to the affected permissions and contract operations, and a risk-control review has already been carried out. It also said the attacker address has been identified and the stolen funds are still being tracked. Separately, 79th Vault said it has offered the attacker a white-hat settlement under its bug bounty framework, and that the other side has responded, with negotiations still under way. The team added that it is working with relevant exchanges, blockchain security firms and other parties to pursue lawful and practical ways to recover the stolen assets. Foresight News had previously cited Defimon Alerts as saying the incident on BNB Chain may have led to losses of about $12.5 million due to a private key leak.30
