Tech & Science Daily: Hackers astonishingly return $260 million in crypto after huge online heist

We were sceptical about it yesterday, but now it appears the unbelievable has happened - at least in part - as hackers behind one of the world’s biggest crypto heists return more than a third of $613 million in digital coins they stole, according to the firm at the centre of the heist.

Poly Network resorted to a desperate tweet of “please can we have our money back” and threatened legal action. Now they are claiming the huge chunk was wired back to them, although $353 million is still missing.

According to crypto tracking firm Chainanalysis, the person claiming to have perpetrated the hack say they did it “for fun” and wanted to “expose the vulnerability”.

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