Decentralized finance protocol Poly Network has offered the person behind a $610 1000000 hack an advisery position and $500,000 — whether they like it or not.

In a Tuesday update, the Poly Network squad said, in a seeming attempt to gain admission to the hacker's expertise, that information technology would be inviting them to the position of chief security adviser. In addition, the project volition be sending a $500,000 bounty for the assaulter, whom Poly dubbed "Mr. White Hat," despite the fact they have previously refused whatever payment.

"Poly Network has no intention of holding Mr. White Chapeau legally responsible, as nosotros are confident that Mr. White Hat will promptly return total control of the assets to Poly Network and its users," said the squad. "As we have stated in previous announcements and encrypted letters that accept been made public, nosotros are grateful for Mr. White Hat'southward outstanding contribution to Poly Network'due south security enhancements."

The hack was reported on Aug. ten, when analysts noted that roughly $610 million had been removed from the Polygon network, the Binance Smart Chain and Ethereum. The hacker subsequently communicated with the Poly Network team and others through embedded messages in Ethereum transactions, like-minded to return the funds. Poly Network said it determined that the attack constituted "white chapeau behavior" and offered Mr. White Lid a $500,000 bounty.

The Poly Network team said it was "counting on more experts like Mr. White Hat to be involved" in the time to come development of the projection, "since we believe that nosotros share the vision to build a secure and robust distributed arrangement." The hacker returned all the funds with the exception of $33 one thousand thousand in frozen Tether (USDT), but has non yet turned over the key to the multisig wallet Poly set up upwardly for the transfer.

It's a somewhat surprising turn for the individual responsible for the largest hack in decentralized finance, or DeFi, to be offered a reward and a — presumably — paid position at the company which was the target of their attack. Though the hacker'southward identity has still to be fabricated public, Chinese cybersecurity house SlowMist posted an update presently later news of the hack broke, saying its analysts had identified the attacker's email address, IP address and device fingerprint.

"We are grateful for Mr. White Hat's outstanding contribution to Poly Network's security enhancements," said the Poly Network. "While in that location were certain misunderstandings in the starting time due to poor communication channels, we now understand Mr. White Hat's vision for Defi and the crypto world, which is in line with Poly Network's ambitions from the very offset."

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With the exception of thousands of users being temporarily unable to access their funds, the events of the last calendar week seem to have had a internet outcome of additional media attending over the Poly Network. Data from Google shows interest in the DeFi project reached an all-time high on Midweek and is still well above what information technology had been since Poly launched last year.