Hackers return $260 million to cryptocurrency platform after massive theft

LONDON/SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of about $600 million in digital coins they stole, blockchain researchers said on Wednesday.

Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, announced the hack on Twitter https://twitter.com/PolyNetwork2/status/1425073987164381196, posting details of digital wallets to which the tokens were sent.

The value of the coins in the wallets was just over $600 million at the time of the announcement, according to blockchain analysts.

Poly Network, which allows users to swap tokens across different blockchains, later urged the hackers to return the stolen funds to several of its digital addresses, saying it planned to take legal action.