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Odaily reports: Smart contract developer Justin Kalland posted on X that the Binance hacker appears to have made a potential mistake, and MetaMask should retain as much of any Web2 logs as they can obtain.Specifically, the hacker sent 175 million USDT to a new wallet, and about 2.5 minutes later, that wallet also received 2 ETH. This was likely used to pay for Gas fees, consistent with the pattern used by their other attack wallets.Exactly two minutes after that, the wallet used MetaMask's Gas Station service, even though it already had Gas fees at the time. Three consecutive transactions landed in the same block — an ETH top-up from Gas Station, an infinite USDT approval to the Kyber Network router, and a payment of 127.67 USDT to Gas Station. The amount of the ETH top-up exactly matched the combined maximum Gas budget of the Kyber approval and the USDT payment. Accurate down to wei (the smallest Ethereum unit).But the problem is that the ETH they had at the time was already fully sufficient to cover both fees, so a reasonable speculation is that they were using a MetaMask wallet at the time and, due to haste, mistakenly selected USDT to pay for Gas fees. For convenience, MetaMask sometimes defaults to this method, and the order of top-ups within the same block also matches how its implementation mechanism works.To use Gas Station in MetaMask, users must use MetaMask Sentinel. This means the transactions were broadcast through them, rather than through a regular RPC. This interaction likely left off-chain records at MetaMask, which may include IP metadata.Among all the attacker's wallets that have been checked, this is the only wallet showing use of Gas Station, and the wallet address is: 0xAa246BF639586a6Ba46762D378CE50cA4fc654a0.
According to the Chosun Ilbo, 22 bitcoins previously held by Seoul’s Gangnam Police Station during its investigation into a financial hacking case have gone missing—valued at approximately 2.2 billion Korean won at current market prices. The investigation revealed that the涉案 bitcoins were stored in an offline wallet held by the complainant, and individuals who knew the wallet’s mnemonic phrase subsequently restored it externally and cashed out the funds.
Odaily Odaily News: Jiangsu Nanjing police, in collaboration with the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment in Guangxi, successfully solved a major gold theft case involving 27 million yuan. The masterminds, Wang and Tong, driven by massive gambling debts, teamed up with another accomplice to plan and execute a theft targeting a luxury store in Jiangning District, Nanjing. They stole a total of 37 gold items, weighing 27 kilograms.After the crime, the main suspect Tong fled south with part of the gold by ride-hailing car, attempting to cross the border illegally via a small path. He was precisely intercepted and arrested by police from the Chongzuo Aidian Border Police Station just 100 meters from the China-Vietnam border, with 8.75 kilograms of gold seized on the spot. Subsequently, another suspect, Wang, who had already fled to Thailand, was captured in Bangkok and extradited back to China. Currently, all 11 suspects in the case have been apprehended, and the 27 kilograms of stolen gold have been fully recovered. (China News Weekly)