BREAKING! More Than $600 Million Stolen In Ethereum And Other Cryptocurrencies -- Marking One Of Crypto's Biggest Hacks Ever!
Hackers allegedly breached blockchain-based platform Poly Network and extracted more than $600 million in cryptocurrencies, the company announced Tuesday, marking the biggest hack ever in the decentralized finance space that's heating up among investors. "We are sorry to announce that #PolyNetwork was attacked," the company tweeted Tuesday morning, disclosing that hackers transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to separate cryptocurrency wallets.
Cryptocurrency wallet addresses disclosed by Poly, a cross-chain interoperability network, show transfers early Tuesday of 2,858 ether tokens worth about $267 million, 6,610 binance coins worth more than $252 million and roughly $85 million in USDC tokens on the Polygon network.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/10/more-than-600-million-stolen-in-ethereum-and-other-cryptocurrencies-marking-one-of-cryptos-biggest-hacks-ever/?sh=7e5b5b67f623
Hackers allegedly breached blockchain-based platform Poly Network and extracted more than $600 million in cryptocurrencies, the company announced Tuesday, marking the biggest hack ever in the decentralized finance space that's heating up among investors. "We are sorry to announce that #PolyNetwork was attacked," the company tweeted Tuesday morning, disclosing that hackers transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to separate cryptocurrency wallets.
Cryptocurrency wallet addresses disclosed by Poly, a cross-chain interoperability network, show transfers early Tuesday of 2,858 ether tokens worth about $267 million, 6,610 binance coins worth more than $252 million and roughly $85 million in USDC tokens on the Polygon network.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/10/more-than-600-million-stolen-in-ethereum-and-other-cryptocurrencies-marking-one-of-cryptos-biggest-hacks-ever/?sh=7e5b5b67f623
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More Than $600 Million Stolen In Ethereum And Other Cryptocurrencies—Marking One Of Crypto’s Biggest Hacks Ever
Nearly $300 million in ether was allegedly stolen.