THELOGICALINDIAN - On August 10 the decentralized accounts defi activity Poly Network suffered a accident of over 600 actor according to assorted letters The drudge follows a contempo Ciphertrace address on how defirelated hacks and artifice in 2024 accept already surpassed 2024 The Poly Network drudge on Tuesday is able-bodied aloft the absolute years account of defi hacks
$600 Million Drained, Poly Network Defi Hack Eclipses 2024’s Defi Hacks
This week, the blockchain assay and intelligence aggregation Ciphertrace published a report that shows $474 actor was absent to defi-related hacks and fraud. The allegation highlight how defi hacks accept hit almanac highs but the Poly Network drudge on Tuesday takes the cake.
Around 9:00 a.m. (EDT) the Poly Network’s official Twitter annual tweeted about the massive hack. “We are apologetic to advertise that Poly Network was attacked,” the Twitter annual said and explained that the hacker was able to admission funds on assorted chains.
The Poly Network activity originally stems from the Neo activity which leverages three altered blockchain networks. This agency the Poly Network hacker was able to access funds stemming from the Polygon, Ethereum, and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) protocols.
The assets baseborn accommodate a abundant cardinal of tokens including ETH, DAI, UNI, SHIB, FEI, BUSD, BTCB, ETHB, BNB, USDT, and more. A abundant cardinal of bodies assessed the situation on Twitter and although annoying it is estimated that added than $600 actor in tokens were stolen.
Hacker Says It Could Have Been More
Sushiswap “super-coder” Mudit Gupta claimed that the affair was not a “defi or acute arrangement drudge but a acceptable key accommodation accumulated with capricious architecture decisions taken by Poly Network.” The aggregation Tether Limited has frozen the USDT on the Ethereum alternation which equates to almost $33 million.
The aggregation abaft the Poly Network activity has additionally accounting a letter asking the hacker to abet with the team. “We appetite to authorize advice with you and appetite you to acknowledgment the afraid funds,” the letter reads.
However, it doesn’t assume like the hacker is accommodating to abet with the Poly Network project. Some transaction messages that allegedly stem from the hacker and can be apprehend on etherscan.io, detail how the hacker is now trolling the activity with a few statements.
“It would accept been a billion drudge if I had confused [the] actual sh**coins. Did I aloof save the project? Not so absorbed in money, now because abiding some tokens or aloof abrogation them here.” The hacker’s bulletin continued:
What do you anticipate about the $600 actor defi drudge adjoin the Poly Network project? What do you anticipate about the hacker’s trolling comments? Let us apperceive what you anticipate about this accountable in the comments area below.
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