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Cryptocurrency Heist: Poly Community Rewards Hacker With $500,000 'Bug Bounty'

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Poly Community, the cryptocurrency platform which misplaced $610 million (roughly Rs. 4,530 crores) in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had provided the hacker or hackers a $500,000 (roughly Rs. 3.7 crores) “bug bounty”.

In an announcement it thanked the hacker – who it dubbed a “white hat”, sector jargon for an moral hacker who typically goals to reveal cyber vulnerabilities – who had returned the majority of the funds for “serving to us enhance Poly Community’s safety”.

The community additionally stated it hoped “Mr. White Hat” would contribute to the blockchain sector’s continued improvement upon accepting the $500,000 (roughly Rs. 3.7 crores) reward, which it had provided as a part of negotiations across the return of the digital cash.

The assertion didn’t specify the shape wherein it could pay the $500,000 (roughly Rs. 3.7 crores). It stated the hacker had responded to the provide however didn’t say if it was accepted.

On Thursday digital messages shared on Twitter by Tom Robinson, chief scientist and co-founder of crypto monitoring agency Elliptic, confirmed an individual claiming to have perpetrated the hack had stated Poly Community provided him the bounty to return the stolen belongings.

A lesser-known title on the planet of crypto, Poly Community is a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions with a concentrate on permitting customers to switch or swap tokens throughout totally different blockchains.

The as-yet unidentified hacker or hackers seem to have exploited a vulnerability within the digital contracts Poly Community makes use of to maneuver belongings between totally different blockchains, in response to blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis.

In response to Friday’s assertion, the hacker has returned $340 million (roughly Rs. 2,520 crores) value of belongings and transferred the majority of the remaining to a digital pockets collectively managed by them and Poly Community.

The rest, held in tether, was frozen by the cryptocurrency agency behind the stablecoin.

“After speaking with Mr. White Hat, we’ve got additionally come to a extra full understanding relating to how the state of affairs unfolded in addition to Mr. White Hat’s authentic intention,” the assertion stated, with out giving additional particulars.

Poly Community introduced the hack on Tuesday, however the next day stated the hackers had begun returning the digital cash that they had taken.

The hackers stated in digital messages shared by Elliptic that that they had perpetrated the assault for enjoyable and that it was all the time the plan to return the tokens.

Some blockchain analysts have speculated nevertheless they may have discovered it too tough to launder stolen cryptocurrency on such a scale.

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