The anonymous hacker behind the largest ever cryptocurrency theft from the Poly Network platform, which allows combining multiple cryptocurrencies, said he did it for fun.
“When I noticed the vulnerability, I had a mixed feeling, ” he said in the Q&A section embedded in the description of the transaction returned to him by the cryptocurrency. - Ask yourself what would you do if you faced such great luck. Politely ask the project team so they can fix this? Anyone can be a traitor with one billion! "
On Tuesday this week, a hacker exploited a vulnerability in the code of the Poly Network platform to steal cryptocurrency. According to researchers of the blockchain security company SlowMist, as a result of the attack, the Poly Network lost more than $ 610 million. After that, the Poly Network management asked the attacker to return the money, to which he expressed his willingness to do so.
As of August 12, the platform has already returned $ 342 million worth of cryptocurrency funds, including $ 4.6 million in Ethereum, $ 252 million in BSC and $ 85 million in Polygon.Whether the rest of the Ethereum cryptocurrency in the amount of $ 268 million will be returned is still unknown.
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