<story><title>Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/11/crypto-hacker-returns-258-million-after-stealing-600-million-solicits-donations-for-hacking-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamburgerwah</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t seen any evidence there was in fact a hack at all. A digital contract was used in a way that complied with the contract that the bonehead writers of that contract did not intend. That&amp;#x27;s it. If bad contract writers get to cry &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; and beg for their money back there is no point to digital contracts at all.&lt;p&gt;If someone had physically or electronically broken into systems and illicitly copied private keys that would be a different story. Here someone executed permissible actions on chain that people didn&amp;#x27;t like, wah wah.&lt;p&gt;You have to be an absolute tool to use the poly network for anything serious ever again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/11/crypto-hacker-returns-258-million-after-stealing-600-million-solicits-donations-for-hacking-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The article tries to imply that the hacker had a change of heart after a public plea to return the funds.&lt;p&gt;In reality, parts of the crypto community moved quickly to block transactions involving the funds and some security researchers claimed they had solid leads on tracking down the hacker’s identity. I think the hacker realized that if their identity was compromised then the legal system wouldn’t look kindly on someone stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.&lt;p&gt;Returning the funds and trying to portray the hack as a noble operation to identify flaws in the system is one way to try to re-spin the events as a positive. It appears they’re hoping to collect donations or some sort of reward as a sort of clean money takeaway.&lt;p&gt;It must have been a wild emotional roller coaster to go from securing $600 million dollars for yourself to realizing that you made a mistake that tied your real identity to the heist.</text></comment>