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The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just “for fun: )” and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker’s own wallets to “keep it safe. ”
Poly Network first disclosed the hack on Tuesday, saying that the particular hacker, or hackers, had stolen crypto coins worth about $600 million at the time of the heist. The thousands of tokens included $270 million on the Ethereum blockchain, $250 million on the Binance Smart Chain, $84 million on the Polygon network, and a smattering of other smaller coins, like Tether, Shiba Inu, and Matic.
As of 4 am this morning, Poly Network says $342 million has been returned. The remainder, which is apparently all in Ethereum, is being “gradually transferred, ” the company} said .
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