# SAND bridge drained via legacy token function, The Sandbox post-mortem finds — claims open next week

In Brief: According to the project's post-mortem, a bridge misconfiguration on Base and BNB Smart Chain allowed an attacker to pull 14,742,341.84 SAND — roughly $697,000, or about 0.5% of max supply — out of The Sandbox (official site)'s Ethereum vault. Not a single private key was stolen. Instead,

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| Published | 4 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/sand-bridge-drained-via-legacy-token-function-the-sandbox-post-mortem-finds-claims-open-next-week/