{"id":91239,"date":"2025-11-20T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=91239"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:05:50","slug":"gana-payment-protocol-on-bnb-chain-hacked-for-3-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/gana-payment-protocol-on-bnb-chain-hacked-for-3-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"GANA Payment Protocol on BNB Chain Hacked for $3.1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The payment project GANA Payment on BNB Chain has been hacked, resulting in the theft of over $3.1 million by attackers. This was reported by on-chain detective ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"investigations\/289\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the researcher, the hackers consolidated the stolen funds in a wallet on the Binance-linked network, exchanging part of the assets for BNB. They then sent 1140 BNB (~$1.04 million) to the crypto mixer <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-tornado-cash-mixer-and-why-was-it-sanctioned\">Tornado Cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining coins were converted by the cybercriminals into 346.8 ETH (~$1.05 million) and left on an Ethereum address.<\/p>\n<p>The GANA team acknowledged the attack, emphasizing that developers have already begun an investigation in collaboration with an external blockchain security company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GANA Urgent Announcement<\/p>\n<p>GANA\u2019s interaction contract has been targeted by an external attack, resulting in unauthorized asset theft. Our technical team, together with an independent third-party security firm, has initiated an emergency investigation to analyze the attack vector,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GANA Payment (@GANA_PayFi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GANA_PayFi\/status\/1991424973190361394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe have initiated a comprehensive plan to restore the project&#8217;s operations. As part of these measures, a full verification of all user asset addresses and associated permissions will be conducted. A detailed schedule of work and recovery stages will be published soon,\u201d noted the platform&#8217;s representatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>GANA Payment is a small payment project with a BEP-20 standard token, GANA. The protocol primarily operates through <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-decentralised-exchange-dex\">decentralized exchanges<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-liquidity-pools-and-how-do-they-work\">on-chain liquidity pools<\/a>. Public technical documentation is limited.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, the price of the GANA token plummeted by more than 90%. At the time of writing, the asset is trading at $0.2 with a market capitalization of $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853-1024x485.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-270118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853-1024x485.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853-1536x728.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-90891adc2bef15d7-10032579433778853.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">15-minute GANA\/USD chart on PancakeSwap. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geckoterminal.com\/bsc\/pools\/0x01586dc6d68a20cdf6304febd03be40ec12735e4\">GeckoTerminal<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the beginning of November, the number of attacks on projects within the BNB Chain ecosystem has sharply increased. In 20 days, attackers have stolen a total of $129 million. For comparison, last month&#8217;s total was $16.6 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851-1024x344.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-270119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851-1024x344.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851-768x258.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851-1536x515.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-2dc339142f28f6a0-10032592650095851.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/hacks?chain=bsc\">DefiLlama<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in November, the DeFi protocol Balancer was hacked, losing over $128 million in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The payment project GANA Payment on BNB Chain has been hacked, resulting in the theft of over $3.1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"GANA Payment on BNB Chain hacked for over $3.1 million.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1307,1246],"class_list":["post-91239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bnb-chain","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"189","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"GANA Payment on BNB Chain hacked for over $3.1 million.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91241,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239\/revisions\/91241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}