Poly Network hacker returns nearly all funds, refuses $500K white hat bounty
"The poly did offered a bounty, but I have never responded to them. Instead, I will send all of their money back," said the hacker. The hacker behind a $610 million attack on the cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Poly Network has returned almost all of the stolen funds amid the project saying their actions constituted “white hat behavior.”According to a Thursday update on the attack from Poly Network, all of the $610 million in funds taken in an exploit that used "a vulnerability between contract calls” have now been transferred to a multisig wallet controlled by the....
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“Poly Network has no intention of holding Mr. White Hat legally responsible," said the team. Decentralized finance protocol Poly Network has offered the person behind a $610 million hack an advisory position and $500,000 — whether they like it or not. In a Tuesday update, the Poly Network team said in a seeming attempt to gain access to hacker’s expertise, it would be inviting them to the position of chief security advisor. In addition, the project will be sending a $500,000 bounty for the attacker, whom Poly dubbed ‘Mr. White Hat,’ despite the fact they have previously refused any....
The Poly Network hacker said they will return the stolen cryptocurrency funds, and have asked for a secured multisig wallet. Following a massive $600 million exploit of cross-chain protocol Poly Network, the Poly Network hacker has claimed his willingness to return the stolen cryptocurrency funds.At about 4:00 UTC on Wednesday, the hacker sent an Ethereum transaction to themselves, stating that they were “ready to return the fund” in an embedded transaction message.Source: EtherscanIn a subsequent message, the hacker asked for a multisig wallet address to return the funds to Poly Network.....
On Tuesday, the decentralized finance (defi) project Poly Network was hacked for over $600 million in digital assets. The attack was the largest defi hack to date eclipsing all of 2021’s defi hacks combined. The very next day, however, the hacker started to send funds back to the Poly Network team as the project’s official Twitter account says it received $4.7 million so far. **Editor’s note: As of 1:45 p.m. (EDT) the hacker has returned $260 million in tokens. White Hat Hacker Communicates With Poly Network Attacker The Poly Network hack will go down in history as one of....
The Crema Finance team awarded the hacker who made off with nearly $10 million in funds from the protocol 16.7% of the stolen funds as a white hat bounty. The hacker who exploited Solana-based liquidity protocol Crema Finance on July 2 returned most of the funds but was allowed to keep $1.6 million as a white hat bounty.The bounty, 45,455 Solana (SOL), is worth a generous 16.7% of the $9.6 million Crema lost initially, which forced the protocol to suspend services. Crema’s team began an investigation to identify the hacker by tracking their Discord handle and tracing the original gas....
$258 million worth of stolen crypto assets have been returned so far and the hacker claims they are keeping the rest of the funds safe while they negotiate with Poly. The Poly Network hacker has now returned $258 million to the cross-chain DeFi protocol and conducted a question and answer session detailing how the initial hack went down. In what is being described as the largest DeFi hack to date, the Poly Network suffered a $612 million exploit on Aug. 10 which saw the hacker steal assets from Ethereum, Binance Chain and the Polygon Network.Tom Robinson, the chief scientist at blockchain....