Hackers steal $ 600 million in cryptocurrencies, hit company opens negotiations

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August 11, 2021

, a company specializing in cryptocurrency transfers, reported a record theft, "the largest ever in the industry" estimated at $ 600 million. Hackers allegedly took advantage of a vulnerability in the platform, which

allowing them to interoperate, to steal more than $ 610 million, according to security firm SlowMist.

According to the

website

, the amount would be 611 million dollars: 273 million on Ethereum, 253 million on Binance Smart Chain and 85 million in USDC - Fully Reserved Fiat-Backed Stablecoin on the Polygon network.

Poly Network, the damaged company, has launched a heartfelt affair

, via Twitter, asking for the return of the virtual wallet.

Hope you will transfer assets to addresses below:

ETH: 0x71Fb9dB587F6d47Ac8192Cd76110E05B8fd2142f

BSC: 0xEEBb0c4a5017bEd8079B88F35528eF2c722b31fc

Polygon: 0xA4b291d125Bwitter.

- Poly Network (@ PolyNetwork2) August 11, 2021

"Dear hackers (...) we want to get in touch with you and urge you to return the assets you have infringed," writes Poly Network in a letter to hackers posted on Twitter. "The amount of money you have hacked is the largest in the history of decentralized finance," the company continued.

"This money comes from tens of thousands of members of the cryptocurrency community." The prayer may have led to some results: Poly Network, also on Twitter, updates the amount of cryptocurrencies that

So far, we have received a total value of $ 4,772,297,675 assets returned by the hacker.

ETH address: $ 2,654,946,051

BSC address: $ 1,107,870,815

Polygon address: $ 1,009,480.809 pic.twitter.com/bPFAQk4mvS

- Poly Network (@ PolyNetwork2) August 11, 2021

According to Cnbc, the hackers have sent a message attached to the transaction explaining that they are "ready to return" what was stolen. For now, approximately

would be returned

. "I believe this demonstrates that even though you can steal digital assets,

due to the transparency of the blockchain," Tom Robinson, blockchain analyst for Elliptic, told CNBC. "In this case - he added - the hackers concluded that the safest option was to return the stolen assets".