All's well that ends well for Poly Network and its customers?

Not quite yet ... The person responsible for Tuesday 's record-breaking cryptocurrency theft has started to hack digital tokens, the decentralized finance company said on Wednesday, the victim of the $ 613 million scam.

At 4 p.m. GMT (6 p.m. in Paris), "$ 260 million (...) in assets had been returned," the company tweeted, including "Ethereum: 3.3 million.

BinanceChain: 256 million.

OxPolygon: 1 million ”.

"There is still $ 269 million in Ethereum and $ 84 million in Polygon," Poly Network said.

"Become an ethical hacker"

In a letter to hackers posted on Twitter, the company urged hackers to "surrender the assets." “This money comes from tens of thousands of members of the crypto community,” the company said. The company had also published the addresses used by hackers and called on cryptocurrency wallet holders to "blacklist" them. SlowMist, a cybersecurity firm, has since said it was on the hacker's trail. “Our team found the attacker's email, his IP and digital traces,” she said on her blog.

The case is especially followed closely by the actors of decentralized finance. “Instead of looting, become an ethical hacker! You are important for the future of decentralization, to standardize blockchain and crypto and to make them more secure! "Tweeted @ zero1_flux. "I am offering a 5-10% reward for crypto hacks," replied @ BinomiaPool, who is developing a solution to secure transfers. “It could be a win-win solution: hackers don't go to jail. The community suffers acceptable losses. The code is improving ”.

The so-called “white hat” pirate practices are encouraged by some industries.

They consist, for companies or institutions, to offer rewards to these hackers to find the flaws in their systems and then to reinforce them.

So ethics or theft?

Now it's up to the pirate to tell which side of the fence he's on.

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