Theft is not uncommon in the crypto world - but it may have a new dimension: hackers stole crypto currencies worth around 600 million dollars in an attack in the US. The US company Poly Network has become a victim of cyber criminals. The company, which specializes in the transfer of cryptocurrencies, announced on the short message service Twitter that strangers had cracked their security measures and diverted the deposits of "tens of thousands" of customers to accounts they controlled.
At least $ 600 million away According to calculations by Twitter users such as cybersecurity researcher and Ethereum expert Mudit Gupta, the value of the stolen tokens is around $ 600 million. Poly Network has now confirmed that it has lost at least $ 600.3 million of its funds. The company itself and many users in the crypto community are talking about the largest crypto theft in history.
Various blockchains affected According to "Cryptonews", the hackers captured $ 273 million from Ethereum - the associated motto, ether, is the second largest crypto currency after Bitcoin -, around $ 253 million from the Binance Smart Chain and around $ 85 million from the Polygon network. This was shown by the blockchain data from the respective networks.
Crazy times, or?
At the moment the hacker is communitcating with the poly team, reagarding giving back the funds.
Stay tuned and watch this https://etherscan.io/tx/0x552bc0322d78c5648c5efa21d2daa2d0f14901ad4b15531f1ab5bbe5674de34f for recent comments of the hacker.