Strange Case of Crypto Hacking! Hackers made the biggest theft in the history of cryptocurrency, then returned a little
Cryptocurrency Heist: Hackers hunted down a company specializing in cryptocurrency transfers and stole about 4,468 million cryptocurrencies, which is probably the biggest theft ever in the history of crypto, but then also returned some part.
San Francisco:
A strange case of cryptocurrency hacking is going on. Hackers hunted down a company specializing in cryptocurrency transfers and stole about $600 million worth of cryptocurrencies, which is probably the biggest theft ever in the history of crypto. But a day later, the thieves also returned a large part of the looted crypto. The company itself has given this information. Poly Network reported that the hackers returned a portion of the stolen cryptocurrency. In a tweet on behalf of the company, it has been said that it has received about $ 4.8 million of crypto from the stolen $ 600 million worth of crypto from hackers.
This step has been taken by the hackers when cyber ‘white hat’ security experts are investigating this theft and trying to track the hackers. Blockchain systems defense firm SlowMist has put the loot at $610 million. She has said that she is after hackers. The company said in a tweet, ‘SlowMist’s security team has found the attackers’ mailbox, IP address and device fingerprint through on-chain and off-chain tracking. Now she is tracking the identity proofs of the attacker of this attack on Poly Network.
The company had asked to blacklist several tokens.
The company said in a series of tweets that hackers had attacked the Poly Network and then carried out a massive theft by transferring a record amount of cryptocurrency to accounts controlled by the hackers. The company also shared the online addresses used by the hackers and asked ‘the blockchain and crypto exchanges affected by this hacking to blacklist the tokens coming from these addresses’.
Poly Network also tweeted addressing the hackers. The company said that ‘the amount you have hacked is the biggest amount in history’. The money you stole belongs to thousands of members of the crypto community. The company had threatened the hackers with the police but also said that it is also giving a way to ‘find a solution together’.
