In what is considered to be the biggest theft in cryptocurrency history, a group of hackers exploited a weakness in the Poly Network, a platform that facilitates interoperability between blockchains, to steal the value of cryptocurrencies $ 600 million.
With more than $ 600 million stolen in cryptocurrency, the Poly Network heist is considered the largest theft in cryptocurrency history.
After the robbery, which the Poly Network itself called “the largest in the history of cryptocurrencies«, The platform made a statement via its Twitter account, in which the hackers were asked to return all the stolen money, as it belongs to the community and therefore thousands of people are affected by this event.
– Poly network (@ PolyNetwork2) August 10, 2021
Poly Network officials managed to locate and identify the IP address from which the attack was carried out, while at the same time urging cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to block and report any movement that was related to that of the cybercriminal addresses used had to do with.
After the statement was published, the cybercriminal responded, assuring that he was “Ready” to return the money and that they attacked the Poly Network just for fun because they discovered the bug in the system and wanted to point it out in order to fix it. He also found the attack to be challenging and congratulated Poly Network on its security systems.
At the moment, the cybercriminal has returned $ 4,772,297,675 million in cryptocurrencies. A total of 2,654,946,051 million was returned in Ethereum, another 1,107,870,815 in Binance Smart Chain and just over a million dollars in Polygon (MATIC).
This is not the first cryptocurrency theft, as more than $ 7,600 million in cryptocurrencies have been stolen through such attacks since 2011. These thefts will account for 54% of all criminal activity related to cryptocurrencies in 2021, according to Crystal Blockchain.
