Wallets connected with the Telegram bot Banana Gun have been compromised according to several community reports, with at least some users’ funds being drained.
“We are investigating the issue, bot is currently offline,” the Banana Gun team wrote in a pinned message on its official Telegram channel.
“Seems like there are already 36 victims with almost 563 ETH ($1.4 million) stolen 'so far' on mainnet,” community member yannickcrypto.eth posted on X. “I wouldn't say that Banana Gun itself got hacked, not enough victims.”
Banana Gun operates a Telegram-based trading bot that enables users to execute on-chain transactions and snipe upcoming token launches.
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The platform is one of the industry’s leading Telegram-based trading bots, according to its Dune Analytics dashboard, having enabled $6 billion worth of trading volume from nearly 272,000 users.
It’s not the first time the project has encountered issues, with a botched launch of the revenue-sharing Banana token last September following a bug in its contract.
The Block reached out to the Banana Gun team for comment.
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