The hacker behind what is considered to be the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history has now returned $342 million (£247 million) worth of stolen assets.

This is according to Poly Network, a blockchain platform that fell victim to the virtual robbery on Tuesday, having lost $610 million (£440 million) worth of Ether, Binance, and USDC tokens.


The company made the announcement on its Twitter page, that as of 8pm UTC (9pm BST) on Thursday, it had been reunited with $256 million worth of BSC, $4.6 million Ethereum, and $85 million Polygon – more than half of the total stolen assets.

“The remaining is $268M on Ethereum,” Poly Networks stated.

The hacker behind the heist started returning the stolen cryptocurrency tokens on Wednesday afternoon following an open letter published by the company urging for “establish communication” and the return of the stolen assets. It also asked “miners of affected blockchain and crypto exchanges to blacklist tokens” associated with the hacker’s wallet.

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This one is not an elebi hacker.

Or what could have caused the return of the money.

Maybe he could see that he cannot jut escape not being caught.

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Nawa

Make I no lie, I no really understand the write up. Who's with me?

Whitehackers

What Tribe was the hacker?

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I'm suprised an hacker would return stolen assets,they probably had something against the hacker

The hacker returned the money because they asked him nicely.

You're a hacker and you've just stolen 600 million dollars. You know you can't keep it. What do you do with it to cause maximum havoc?

Option 1: Write a smart contract that allows withdrawing 1% of the current balance once daily from an admin address
Deposit 600M
Publish private key to admin address
Watch daily reorgs occur for months on end
Option 2: return the money.

leksite120:
This one is not an elebi hacker.

Or what could have caused the return of the money.

Maybe he could see that he cannot jut escape not being caught.

He said he just wan make dem know about the loophole, but if he had warned the company some insider fit sharply steal the funds.

He did the right thing, they don dey blacklist the tokens, although if he wan spend am he might be done already.

heykims:
Make I no lie, I no really understand the write up. Who's with me?

the people dey ment

Dude said something about not being really interested money and that he only hacked the network to so as to point their attention to their flawed security.

I hope he fully returns the whole asset, though. That's a lot of people's sweat and investments

Most hackers just want to prove a point

White hat hackers.

Integrity

EvilSec:
The hacker returned the money because they asked him nicely.

You're a hacker and you've just stolen 600 million dollars. You know you can't keep it. What do you do with it to cause maximum havoc?

Option 1: Write a smart contract that allows withdrawing 1% of the current balance once daily from an admin address
Deposit 600M
Publish private key to admin address
Watch daily reorgs occur for months on end
Option 2: return the money.

Are you a blockchain developer?

EvilSec:
The hacker returned the money because they asked him nicely.

You're a hacker and you've just stolen 600 million dollars. You know you can't keep it. What do you do with it to cause maximum havoc?

Option 1: Write a smart contract that allows withdrawing 1% of the current balance once daily from an admin address
Deposit 600M
Publish private key to admin address
Watch daily reorgs occur for months on end
Option 2: return the money.

Pls Pls xplain this is English to us.

The option 1 I mean.

Nice of them

What2Do

Generous hackers

The Binance coin would have been impossible to steal..

The BSC is centralised with CZ controlling more than 45% of nodes...

More like post nut clarity.

Hackers with conscience

Hackers that detect and exploit vulnerabilities in a network. They said they were just having fun.
Unlike one hushp...

Hillarie:
Dude said something about not being really interested money and that he only hacked the network to so as to point their attention to their flawed security.

I hope he fully returns the whole asset, though. That's a lot of people's sweat and investments

Correct.

Na arrangi. dem wan trend.

Hmm

DoctorDree:
Most hackers just want to prove a point

which point??....na whitehacker jare....naijahacker no dey prove point

I expected a massive drop after the news but it never happened. That's how strong crypto has become. However it is weird to think that you can invest a fortune in crypto and someone will just wipe it off from the comfort of his room. Maybe the so-called Blockchain technology is overhyped afterall