The hacker behind one of the largest cryptocurrency heists to date has returned almost half of the $600m stolen assets.
This is really very interesting. He stole one of the largest amounts and again returned half of it!!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58180692This has happened several times already. Only that, the hacker before returned back to the company everything he had stolen. I guess the main reason why these hackers are doing this is that they want to expose the weakest side of the security of the company in order for them to be more cautious next time. Maybe what they want is to let these big companies know that they still have their vulnerable points in terms of security and the security team shouldn't be complacent as it would put the whole company at great risk and unfortunate situations such as huge losses.
This also happened before in our alma mater, a group of hackers exposed the records of the student but also took down the post a moment after. They released a statement that they did it not to harm anyone, but to remind the administration to strengthen the security measures or else, the records will be compromised the time hacking really happens to exploit the personal information of the whole studentry and faculty.
Nonetheless, I really do hope that they learned their lessons well, and may this scenario urge them to have stronger security measures and protocols with timely updates to avoid untoward situations like this from happening again. And hopefully, the hacker/s would return everything to the company because the common people are the usual ones who invested and therefore, are affected by the hacking incident.