Hacker who stole $600M of crypto returns $260M… ’cos they don’t dig money? - The Fact Factory

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Thursday, 12 August 2021

Hacker who stole $600M of crypto returns $260M… ’cos they don’t dig money?


Update 12/08/2021 4.40 IST: According to a report from Reuters, the hacker has now returned more than half of the money.  Hackers stealing cryptocurrency is a regular event in the last couple of years. But in a bizarre incident, a hacker who stole $600 million worth of cryptocurrency earlier this week, returned $260 million of them. Here’s what happened. A hacker took advantage of a bug in Poly Network, a decentralized finance platform that lets you exchange various tokens, and stole $600 million in various digital currencies. This was touted as one of the biggest hacks in the decentralized world.  A…

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