Q&A With Poly Hacker, Hero Or Villain Behind Biggest DeFi In History?
The crypto industry was taken by storm when Poly Network, an interoperable cross-chain platform, revealed that they were attacked. The hacker pulled what turned out to be one of the biggest thefts in DeFi history, at least, that it has been called by the mainstream media. The attacker managed to transfer funds from several blockchains connected by a blockchain agnostic trading pool, O3 Swap. Created by Poly Network and O3 Labs, the platform allows users to interact with Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Polygon, and others. Using an exploit, the hacker took control of $273 million on....
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The crypto market has been rocked by the news of what might be the biggest DeFi hack in history. On August 10th, the exploitation on the Poly Network saw the hacker(s) make away with more than $600 million in crypto. A hack that shook the entire DeFi market to its very core. The hacker made off with a loot of over $200 million in ETH. And hundreds of millions in tokens. After a warning from a user warning that their USDT address had been blacklisted, the hacker then sent approximately $42K in ETH to the address which issued the warning. Resulting in hundreds of transactions being sent to....
In the face of an increase in the number of attacks on DeFi platforms, Polygon has decided to take new measures. The Ethereum scaling platform recently announced a $2 million bug bounty. In that way, Polygon expects to “root out and eliminate potential security flaws”, according to a press release. Only a few months ago, the DeFi ecosystem experienced one of its biggest hacks when it lost over $600 million on different platforms. Polygon recorded an $85 million loss at the time. While Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) recorded a combined estimate of $500 million in losses. Related....
Around 1:00 PM UTC, the official Twitter handle for Poly Network reported an attack on their platform resulting in one of the worst attacks on DeFi since its inception. The hacker managed to transfer over $600 million in assets to Polygon, Ethereum, and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) addresses. According to their website, PolyNetwork is a […]
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....
Two days after the notorious Poly Network hack, the hacker continues to send funds back to the project. On August 12, the Poly Network hacker so far has returned millions worth of ether, thousands of uni tokens, 1,032 wrapped bitcoins, and 96 million in stablecoins. The day prior, after returning $260 million in tokens, the hacker explained that the Poly Network has “well enough assets to start the recovery phase.” Poly Network Hacker Returns a Number of Defi Tokens On August 10, Bitcoin.com News reported on the massive decentralized finance (defi) hack that plagued the Poly....