The Poly Network drama seems to be officially over as the hacker has returned the remaining $141 million, according to a blog post from the DeFi project.
‘Full Asset Restoration’ Begins
As per the announcement, at 8:39 AM UTC, Mr. White Hat gave his private key to the 3/4 multi-signature wallet in an embedded message, retrieving the 28,853 ETH and 1,032 WBTC (Wrapped BTC) left and giving Poly Network the green light to return full asset control to users.
The team had to verify if the private key was genuine, which turned out to be so. Thus the 610 million stolen on August 10th are fully restored to the network (This doesn’t include the frozen 33 million USDT, the protocol is trying to solve this issue by contacting Tether directly).
“The team has confirmed that the private key is genuine, and functional. As of now, Poly Network has regained control of the $610 million (not including the frozen $33 million USDT) in assets that were overall affected in this attack.
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