On Tuesday, the decentralized finance (defi) project Poly Network was hacked for over $600 million in digital assets. The attack was the largest defi hack to date eclipsing all of 2021’s defi hacks combined. The very next day, however, the hacker started to send funds back to the Poly Network team as the project’s official Twitter account says it received $4.7 million so far.
White Hat Hacker Communicates With Poly Network Attacker
The Poly Network hack will go down in history as one of the largest defi attacks since the inception of this technology. In fact, the hack is up there with some of the largest hacks in crypto as it surpassed the Coincheck hack in 2018 which saw a loss of $530 million. Following the hack on Poly Network, the team published a letter that asked the hacker to start communicating with the project’s team members. “Law enforcement in any country will regard this as a major crime and you will be pursued,” Poly Network’s letter detailed.
The hacker allegedly wrote messages to the Poly Network team and stressed that the hack could have been worse. Now, according to the official Poly Network Twitter account, the project has seen $4.7 million returned on Wednesday morning. “So far, we have received a total value of $4,772,297.675 assets returned by the hacker,” Poly Network said. The company also disclosed the amount and type of funds the hacker returned. The returned crypto assets include:
- ETH address: $2,654,946.051
- BSC address: $1,107,870.815
- Polygon address: $1,009,480.809
