poloniex who bought the stock market Justin Sunoffered a 5% reward to hackers who stole over $126 million in assets did.
Justin Sun shared an update on his social media account X, demanding the hackers to pay back within seven days.
We are offering a 5% white hat bounty to the Poloniex hacker. Please return the funds to the following ETH/TRX/BTC wallets. We will give you 7 days to consider this offer before we engage law enforcement.
ETH Wallet: 0x176F3DAb24a159341c0509bB36B833E7fdd0a132 TRX:…— HE Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@justinsuntron) November 10, 2023
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In his tweet, Justin Sun offered a 5% reward by asking Poloniex to return the funds to the following ETH/TRX/BTC wallets that stole them. He gave the hackers seven days to evaluate this offer, otherwise they would face legal sanctions.
- ETH Wallet: 0x176F3DAb24a159341c0509bB36B833E7fdd0a132
- TRX: TUgSgCQL6pMSy9zByn4sgxqrJa95sZExBG
- BTC: 14XKsv8tT6tt8P8mfDQZgNF8wtN5erNu5D
In addition, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao reacted to the Poloniex hack issue and made a post hoping that it will be resolved soon. He also assured that he would offer all assistance if any of the stolen funds were transferred to Binance.
Previous data showed that the $100 million loss suffered by Poloniex increased to $126 million. The security attack was detected on one of its wallets, labeled as Poloniex 4 on Etherscan.
According to reports, approximately 357 transactions were made and over $126 million in assets were stolen, including ETH, USDT, BTC, USDD, USDC, ETH, FLOKI, and TUSD.
Poloniex attackers purchased over $22 million worth of TRX on the Tron blockchain in just 40 minutes at the time of writing, transmitting the assets to Sun’s network.