SAN FRANCISCO( AFP)-A firm specialising in transferring cryptocurrency said on Tuesday( Aug 10) that hackers cracked its security, making off with a record-setting haul potentially worth US$ 600 million( S$ 816 million). Poly Network put out a plea for the stolen Ethereum, BinanceChain and OxPolygon tokens to be shunned by traders running" wallets" for storing cryptocurrency." The amount of money you hacked is the biggest one in the defi( decentralised finance) history," Poly Network said in a t

LONDON/ SINGAPORE/ HONG KONG( REUTERS)-The hacker or hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned over a third of around US$ 600 million( S$ 800 million) in stolen digital coins, a blockchain researcher said on Wednesday( Aug 11). Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, announced the hack on Twitter, posting details of digital wallets to which the tokens were sent. The value of the coins in the wallets was just over

HONG KONG/ SINGAPORE/ LONDON( Reuters)-A cryptocurrency platform has lost an estimated US$ 600 million in digital tokens after one of the sector's biggest ever hacking attacks, according to details of the heist which emerged on Wednesday. Poly Network, a decentralised finance platform( DeFi), 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. The value of the tokens in the wallets