Security News > 2021 > August > Hackers Return Portion of Record Crypto Heist Haul
A firm specializing in transferring cryptocurrency said that hackers have given back $260 million worth of digital loot from a record haul.
Poly Network fired off a tweet Wednesday saying hackers had returned $260 million worth of the digital assets taken in a heist a day earlier valued at $613 million.
The heist also sparked debate about whether it would be fair to let the hackers keep some of the loot as reward for uncovering a Poly Network weakness that could have been even more costly.
Poly Network threatened police involvement, but also offered the hackers the chance to "Work out a solution."
Poly Network posted online addresses used by the hackers, and called on "Miners of affected blockchain and crypto exchanges to blacklist tokens" coming from them.
Poly Network did not reply to an AFP request for comment, but Twitter users echoed calculations valuing the hackers' haul at some $600 million.
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