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Almost about a week after a hacker stole $610 million from PolyNetwork in what was tipped to be the biggest hack in the DeFi or decentralised finance space till now, the attacker has now been offered a job by the same platform.

It seems the tweet shared by Poly Network reminded him that the money he has stolen can attract major consequences from law enforcement.

The $600 million crypto hack is one of the largest in Defi history. Poly Network pleaded to have their money back and the hacker complied. In return, the firm offered them $500,000 and immunity, FBI objected to the latter.

Poly Network, the decentralised finance platform that suffered the breach just a day before, warned the hackers to surrender or they will be pursued by law enforcement in every country in the world.

Poly Network, a so-called decentralised finance platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, announced the hack on Twitter and posted details of digital wallets to which it said the money was transferred, urging people to blacklist tokens from those addresses.

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The US justice department said on Wednesday, February 17 that three North Korean computer programmers have been charged in Los Angeles. The trio is accused of conspiring to steal and extort $1.3 billion in crypto and traditional currencies from banks and other victims through widespread cyberattacks. According to the authorities, these cybercriminals were working for the North Korean military intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau. As reported, they were pursuing the strategic a...