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PancakeSwap

$1.8M stolenMonday, April 12, 2021 · 1953 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-08-17

Situation Summary

4/12/2021 — EXPLOIT DETECTED

$1.8M drained from PancakeSwap on BSC.

TECHNIQUE: IMPROPER ACCESS CONTROL

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