{"id":323269,"date":"2021-08-12T19:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hackers-behind-600m-crypto-heist-say-they-did-it-for-fun\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:50:42","slug":"hackers-behind-600m-crypto-heist-say-they-did-it-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hackers-behind-600m-crypto-heist-say-they-did-it-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hackers behind $600M crypto heist say they did it ‘for fun’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hackers behind $600M crypto heist say they did it ‘for fun’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s good to love your work, but this is ridiculous. <\/p>\n

Hackers who made off with more than $600 million worth of crypto this week say they didn\u2019t need the money and did it all \u201cfor fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an app<\/a>arent effort to prove the bizarre claims, they\u2019ve even returned $342 million worth of stolen funds, according<\/a> to PolyNetwork, the decentralized finance platform that was hacked. <\/p>\n

The oddball explanation behind the biggest cryptocurrency heist of all time emerged on Thursday from a blockchain-based question-and-answer session held by someone claiming to be behind the hack, and who experts have confirmed is tied to an account that was used in the attack. <\/p>\n

On the hacking, this person explained: \u201cAsk yourself what to do had you facing so much fortune. Asking the project team politely so that they can fix it? Anyone could be the traitor given one billion!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can trust nobody!\u201d the person continued. \u201cThe only solution I can come up with is saving it in a _trusted_ account while keeping myself _anonymous_ and _safe_.\u201d<\/p>\n

On returning the money, this person said: \u201cThat\u2019s always the plan! I am _not_ very interested in money! I know it hurts when people are attacked, but shouldn\u2019t they learn something from those hacks?\u201d<\/p>\n

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A person claiming to be the hacker said they did it \u201cfor fun\u201d and said it was \u201calways the plan\u201d to return the money.<\/figcaption>
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Tom Robinson, chief scientist at blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, told CNBC that the person behind the Q&A was \u201cdefinitely\u201d behind the Poly Network attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe messages are embedded in transactions sent from the hacker\u2019s account,\u201d Robinson told CNBC. \u201cOnly the holder of the stolen assets could have sent them.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the hack, PolyNetwork publicly begged the hackers to return the coins, warning that \u201claw enforcement in any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hackers are still holding onto $268 million in Ethereum, according to PolyNetwork. It\u2019s unclear whether they plan to return the rest of the crypto.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some blockchain experts have offered an alternative explanation for why the money was returned, saying that the hackers may have found it all but impossible to secretly convert it into usable cash on such a mass scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if you can steal cryptoassets, laundering them and cashing out is extremely difficult, due to the transparency of the blockchain and the broad use of blockchain analytics by financial institutions,\u201d Tom Robinson of UK blockchain analysis company Elliptic told Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The hackers could be returning the crypto because they found it all but impossible to secretly convert it into usable cash on such a mass scale.\u00a0<\/figcaption>
Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like the hackers, PolyNetwork itself is also mysterious. It is not clear where the company is based or whether it is working with any law enforcement agency to investigate the heist.<\/p>\n

The hackers exploited a vulnerability in the so-called \u201csmart contracts\u201d that PolyNetwork uses to transfer tokens between users, allowing them to divert funds to themselves, according to the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They stole 12 kinds of cryptocurrencies, according to blockchain forensics company Chainalysis, but have returned all of the cryptocurrencies except for the missing $268 million worth of Ethereum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n