Bad luck! Hacker cited 600 million € in crypto - can not do anything with it

Recently, hackers have stolen over 600 million euros in various crypto currencies from the Platform Poly Network. Really enriched the theft, because with the money you can not do anything.

Who are the hackers? On August 10, a single message brought the entire cosmos of the crypto feeds to waver. One or more hackers under the name MR. White has (to German: Mr. Weißhut) in a digital robbery over 600 million euros in the form of Bitcoin, Etherum and other currencies have lived.

The aim of this attack was the trading platform Poly Network, where security gaps were exploited. The platform turned out to be particularly lucrative, as it allows trade between different crypt feeds - barely another platform offers. So the hackers could transfer several currencies in fewer transfers.

To retain the money of more than 10,000 customers affected, Poly Network wrote an open letter to the hackers:

Dear hackers,

We are the Poly Network Team.

We want to communicate with you and ask you to return the chopped assets.

The amount of money she stolen is the largest in the history of decentralized finances. Prisoners and courts of all countries will treat and pursue the serious economic crime. It would be very unwise of you to carry out more transactions. The money you stolen comes from more than 10,000 members of our crypto community.

You should talk to us to find a solution.

Hackers can not start with the money

Poly makes more pressure: To further urge the hackers to repay the assets, the trading platform released the Wallet addresses of the hackers on Twitter. This allows the hackers of Mr. White to stuck further transactions on the white hat. If you are now trying to pay someone with the captured crypto currency or to swap crypto - in conventional currency, all involved is clearly clear: the money is stolen.

Comparable is with bills that cancel a money suitcase from a flowering color for attempting to break off a flagship.

Hackers pay money back: Poly Network has received a message only a short time later, which was coupled to a transaction. In writing the hackers Ready to transfer. (to German: ready for the transaction)

And indeed, the money landed piece by piece in the Wallets of Poly Network. By 13 August 2021, the hackers had repaid around € 340 million of € 600 million - more than half. Success enough? By no means: The responsible persons of Poly promise their members that they do not stop until the last cent is back there, from where he was stolen.

Members and Twitter users: Sets the hacker

The reaction to the open letter from Poly Network are clear. A large part of the users simply make fun of it. Others express their compassion for those affected. But a user has an abstruse and yet ingenious idea: Puts the hacker, the user requires Cryptopittiece001 and gets a quick encouragement for this idea.

After all, he has pointed out the operators of the site to an important vulnerability. Poly should pay the hacker so that it finds even more dangerous holes in the security measures, Cryptopittie finds.

An idea that could actually work. It would not be the first time that a company sets a hacker who is successful through its own safety. Because who can better recognize potential risk sources than their own enemy?

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Platforms like Poly Network were already three times more victims of such hacker attacks in 2021 than in the previous year. But theft is not the only danger to trading in crypto currencies, as Twitch Streamer reports Trainswrecks: Twitch Streamer warns of gambling and crypto currencies, then cheated $ 2 million