Crypto’s largest heist continues to unfold like a cyberpunk reality show. In the latest episode, the hacker that stole around $600 million worth of crypto from cross-chain interoperability platform Poly Network conducted an AMA-style (Ask-Me-Anything) tell-all last night, answering questions about their motivations and plans.
In a strictly crypto fashion, the hacker kept it all on chain, embedding the questions and answers as “input data”—viewable as UTF-8—in Ethereum transactions sent to themselves.
And another… pic.twitter.com/HTFdM4w0s9
— Sam MacPherson (@hexonaut) August 11, 2021
The hacker explained that the exploit was meant to teach Poly Network a lesson. Returning the stolen funds was „always the plan,” they said.
„I am not very interested in money! I know it hurts when people are attacked, but shouldn’t they learn something from those attacks?”
At 12 am EST yesterday, the hacker announced that they were “ready to return the fund” also via an embedded messa
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