{"id":47970,"date":"2021-08-19T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47970"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:57:12","slug":"poly-network-hacker-threatens-to-delay-full-return-of-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poly-network-hacker-threatens-to-delay-full-return-of-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly Network hacker threatens to delay full return of funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hacker, who breached Poly Network on August 10 for $611 million<\/a>, threatened to delay the final return of funds at least until next week.<\/p>\n

Within a day of the attack, the hacker announced a willingness to return the assets<\/a> and proposed creating multisig wallets for this purpose. The keys to them are controlled by both sides.<\/p>\n

As of August 12, the hacker had transferred the stolen funds to the project’s addresses on the networks Binance Smart Chain<\/a> and Polygon<\/a> \u2014 $253 million and $85 million, as well as all assets<\/a> on the Ethereum blockchain. The exception was the $33 million in USDT, an address blocked by the stablecoin issuer, Tether.<\/p>\n

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“Your essays are quite convincing, but in practice there is a sense of distrust. What a funny game. You don’t even intend to unlock my USDT account. I am not prepared to publish the key this week,” the hacker wrote in the signature to the Ethereum transaction<\/a> on August 18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This was in response to the message<\/a> from the Poly team, which assured the hacker that it was doing everything possible to lift the Tether block and was counting on a \u201cquick result.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“We still hope you can provide us with the key this week, because thousands of users are waiting for the return of their assets,” they added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The team also transferred<\/a> 160 ETH to the hacker, which roughly corresponds to the amount of the reward previously offered to him, $500 000. The hacker refused<\/a> it.<\/p>\n

Earlier, experts suggested that one of the reasons for returning the funds<\/a> was that the hacker exposed personal data.<\/p>\n

He himself stated that he hacked Poly Network ‘for fun’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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