Yesterday , one of the largest cryptocurrency heist in story punctured through the United States Department of Defense of a large blockchain site and steal over$600 million(£433 million ) .
accord to an analysis bySlow Mistand verified by Poly web ( the site that was hacked ) , the fire exploited a exposure allowing them control over a large amount of cryptocurrency – including Ethereum , Bitcoin , and Polygon . They were then capable to direct big sums to an reference of their choice .
As it stands , this attack was one of the magnanimous in decentralized finance history , and Poly connection posted a plea to Twitter urging the attacker to return the gist .
“ Dear Hacker , ” the teampostedto Twitter .
“ We want to establish communicating with you and root on you to return the hack asset . The amount of money you have cut is one of the biggest in defi history . Law enforcement in any body politic will see this as a major economical offense and you will be pursue . It is very inexpedient for you to do any further transactions , ”
" The money you stole are from tens of G of crypto community members , hence the people . You should spill the beans to us to work out a solution . ”
Seems like a retentive shot , proper ? Well , somehow , it really worked .
On Wednesday , Poly connection begin stating they were meet large sums of crypto back . So far,$342 million(£247 million ) has been recovered into designated report released by the squad for the hacker to deposit the stolen asset back into . The Brobdingnagian majority of the stolen assets repay so far was in Bitcoin , with $ 252 million worth returned , and an undischarged amount of $ 268 million Charles Frederick Worth of Ethereum remain unaccounted for .
The vulnerability has beenfully identifiedby Poly connection . They and other experts have made it clean-cut it was not a leakage of individual information that allowed the hack memory access , but an exploit within contract that the hack used to change keeper of the cryptocurrency .
Perhaps even more surprising , the hacker then released a Q&A embedded inetherium transactionsin which they explain their rationale , as well as why they render the money .
In response to the question “ Why render [ the money ] ? ” , the hacker explained :
“ That ’s always the design ! I am not very interested in money ! I sleep together it hurts when citizenry are assault , but should n’t they take something from those hacks ? I announce the yield determination before midnight so people who had religious belief in me should had a good eternal sleep . "
Why did they do it ? " For fun :) , " say their reply .
