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Hacker who returned half of stolen $600 million gets job offer from victim firm

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The hacker who stole $610 million from PolyNetwork and has returned half of the cryptocurrency has now been offered a job as Chief Security Officer by the company. </p>
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The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform, which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains, was an act of “hacking for good” to “save the project.” The attacker has since promised to return the money and so far delivered about half of it.</p>
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PolyNetwork has already made an offer to the hacker to keep $500,000 of the funds and the offer for a job comes as an additional reward.</p>
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“To extend our thanks and encourage Mr. White Hat to continue contributing to security advancement in the blockchain world together with PolyNetwork, we cordially invite Mr. White Hat to be the Chief Security Adviser of PolyNetwork,” the company said in a statement. “Again, it is important to reiterate that PolyNetwork has no intention of holding Mr. White Hat legally responsible, as we are confident that Mr. White Hat will promptly return full control of the assets to PolyNetwork and its users.”</p>
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After returning half of the network's assets, the hacker deposited the remaining $235 million into a joint account that is protected by two keys needed to unlock the funds. One of the keys was given to PolyNetwork, and the hacker has kept the other.</p>
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PolyNetwork has ever since been desperately pleading with Mr. White Hat to turn in his key so that it can get back the remaining funds.</p>

IN Bureau

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