After $610 million crypto heist, hacker has job offer from his victim

PolyNetwork was hit by $600-million heist last week

About a week after a hacker stole $610 million from PolyNetwork in what was likely the biggest heist in history of so-called decentralised finance, the victim has offered its attacker a job. 

The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform -- which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains -- was an act of “hacking for good” to “save the project.” The attacker has since promised to return the money and so far delivered about half of it.

PolyNetwork has responded by lavishing praise on the hacker, who it dubbed “Mr. White Hat,” a term used to describe “ethical” hackers who