Cryptocurrencies
Hackers Return Funds From Likely Record DeFi Crypto Attack
- Thieves are now asking for donations as rewards for the return
- Thousands of users were affected by the attack Tuesday
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Hackers returned about half of the $610 million or so they pilfered Tuesday in what was likely one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts on record in the burgeoning DeFi sector.
In a unusual twist, the online thieves pledged to return the entire amount stole from a decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol known as PolyNetwork that lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains. It isn’t clear from the PolyNetwork website who runs the protocol.