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Cysic offers 10% bounty after bridge exploit; attacker moves $744,000 to Tornado Cash
· By MyCryptoSignal Editorial · 365 words
Cointelegraph reports that Cysic has offered a 10% bounty after an attacker exploited its bridge to mint 10 million tokens on BNB Smart Chain. The same report says the attacker moved $744,000 in ETH and BNB into Tornado Cash.
Cointelegraph's report, published on 23 October 2026, describes two linked parts of one event. The attacker exploited Cysic's bridge to mint 10 million tokens on BNB Smart Chain, then moved $744,000 in ETH and BNB to Tornado Cash. Cysic answered with a 10% bounty offer.
The report does not say whether the attacker responded to the bounty, whether any tokens were returned, or how the bridge flaw was introduced. It names no suspect and gives no total loss figure beyond the $744,000 sent to the mixer. Cointelegraph also does not state when the exploit was discovered or whether the minted tokens were sold. Those points sit outside what the source published.
Our own numbers, collected as of 13:16 UTC on 24 October, show both tokens named in the report trading lower. Ethereum traded at $2,368.99, down 1.23% over 24 hours, inside a 24-hour range of $2,353.51 to $2,413.74. ETH is down 2.64% over seven days and 10.53% over 30 days, with an RSI of 38.4 and a down trend. Support sits at $2,355.67 and resistance at $2,381.18.
Binance Coin traded at $731.97, down 1.74% on the day, within a 24-hour band of $730.28 to $749.39. BNB is up 1.58% over seven days but down 4.93% over 30 days, with an RSI of 34.4 and a flat trend; support and resistance sit close together at $732.59 and $732.82. The total market cap stood at $2.552 trillion, down 1.19% over 24 hours, with Bitcoin dominance at 63.6% and Bitcoin at $80,751, down 1.06%.
The source describes a bridge exploit followed by mixer transfers, with a bounty offered for the funds. Both tokens named in the report sit below their 30-day levels, with ETH's RSI at 38.4 and BNB's at 34.4, while the total market cap is down 1.19% over 24 hours. The bounty and the mixer flows leave the question of recovery open in the source's own account.
Read the full story at Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/cysic-exploiter-eth-tornado-cash-white-hat-offer
Data, not advice.
Source: Cointelegraph — see our editorial policy.