Binance’s Altcoin Under Review for Listing Was Hacked! Hacker Minted a Large Amount of Tokens, Causing Price to Drop!

Hacking incidents in the cryptocurrency market seem never-ending. Most recently, another DeFi protocol was targeted.

Accordingly, the Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol Echo Protocol was vulnerable today, making it the latest in a wave of DeFi attacks this year.

Echo Protocol, a Monad (MON)-based Bitcoin liquidity project, announced via its X account that a security vulnerability had occurred in its bridge.

The team stated that they are investigating the incident and announced that they have temporarily suspended all cross-chain transactions.

This announcement comes after Onchain Lens reported that Echo Protocol was exposed to a security vulnerability worth $76.7 million.

According to onchain analyst Onchain lnes, the attacker generated 1,000 eBTC, the protocol’s liquidity token, on Monad and used it as collateral to borrow WBTC.

He then bridged the WBTC to Ethereum, converting it to ETH, and sent it to the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.

Following the hack news, the price of Echo Protocol (ECHO) fell. ECHO is listed on Binance Alpha, Binance’s pre-listing pool.

*This is not investment advice.