{"id":47558,"date":"2021-08-12T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47558"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:57:17","slug":"poly-network-hacker-returns-all-assets-stolen-from-polygon-and-binance-smart-chain-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poly-network-hacker-returns-all-assets-stolen-from-polygon-and-binance-smart-chain-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly Network hacker returns all assets stolen from Polygon and Binance Smart Chain networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attacker behind the Poly Network cross-chain protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/polygonscan.com\/address\/0xa4b291ed1220310d3120f515b5b7accaecd66f17#tokentxns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reimbursed all $85 million<\/a>, stolen from the Polygon network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">$342 million (As of 12 Aug 08:18:29 AM +UTC) of assets had been returned:<br \/>\nEthereum: $4.6M<br \/>\nBSC: $252M<br \/>\nPolygon: $85M<\/p>\n<p>The remaining is $268M on Ethereum<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Poly Network (@PolyNetwork2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolyNetwork2\/status\/1425733950614360064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier he had already returned <a href=\"https:\/\/bscscan.com\/address\/0xEEBb0c4a5017bEd8079B88F35528eF2c722b31fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all $253 million from the Binance Smart Chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the hacker began transferring funds from the Ethereum blockchain. The Poly Network wallet has already received <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x71Fb9dB587F6d47Ac8192Cd76110E05B8fd2142f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over $4.5 million in various tokens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the remaining portion of the stolen cryptocurrency valued at $268 million remains on the attacker\u2019s Ethereum wallet: 28,954 ETH, 96,942,062 DAI, 1,032 WBTC and 33,431,234 USDT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-stole-611-million-from-the-poly-network-cross-chain-protocol\">In August, Poly Network was subjected to an attack on the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon blockchains<\/a>. The total damage amounted to $611 million across various cryptocurrencies. Some of the stolen funds, for example in USDT, were blocked.<\/p>\n<p>On August 11, the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-who-stole-611-million-from-poly-network-begins-returning-funds\">stated his intention to return the funds<\/a>. The project team has created three wallets for this purpose. Experts suggested that one reason for the restitution was that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/doxxed-experts-outline-the-hackers-motives-for-returning-611m-to-poly-network\">the hacker disclosed personal data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, developer Kelvin Fichter provided a detailed breakdown of the attack mechanism on Poly Network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vhOih3tGmR\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/expert-explains-mechanism-behind-poly-network-hack-worth-611-million\">An expert explained the mechanism behind the $611 million Poly Network hack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cAn expert explained the mechanism behind the $611 million Poly Network hack\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/news\/ekspert-obyasnil-mehanizm-masshtabnogo-vzloma-poly-network-na-611-mln\/embed#?secret=V5HxxrfQwl#?secret=vhOih3tGmR\" data-secret=\"vhOih3tGmR\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the attacker admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/for-fun-hacker-explains-the-reasons-behind-the-poly-network-attack\">he hacks for fun<\/a>, and Poly Network chose it because cross-chain hacking is \u201chot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attacker behind the Poly Network attack has reimbursed all $85 million stolen from the Polygon and Binance Smart Chain networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2231],"class_list":["post-47558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-poly-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47560,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47558\/revisions\/47560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}