Victim of major DeFi cyberattack offers its hacker a job


PolyNetwork has been pleading with Mr White Hat to turn in his key so the funds could be accessed ever since. The hacker has yet to do so, despite the job offer and another offer that would allow the hacker to keep US$500,000 (RM2.11mil) of the funds. — Reuters

About a week after a hacker stole US$610mil (RM2.58bil) from PolyNetwork in what was likely the biggest heist in history of so-called decentralised finance, the victim has offered its attacker a job.

The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform – which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains – was an act of “hacking for good” to “save the project”. The attacker has since promised to return the money and so far delivered about half of it.

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