Optimism hacker has confirmed they’re a whitehat and requested the mission builders to share a return tackle for the remaining tokens of their possession.
The hacker stole 20 million OP tokens from Optimism by exploiting a failed transaction involving liquidity supplier Wintermute.
Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy requested the hacker to return the stolen funds in the event that they’re whitehat inside per week. He threatened to dox the hacker in the event that they didn’t return the funds.
A part of the assertion reads,
We’re 100% dedicated to returning all of the funds, monitoring the individual(s) answerable for the exploit, absolutely doxxing them and delivering them to the corresponding juridical system. Do not forget that robbers must get fortunate each time. Cops solely must get fortunate as soon as.
Nonetheless, it turned out the hacker was a whitehat in spite of everything. Earlier than returning the funds, the hacker this morning despatched a million OP tokens to Vitalik Buterin’s public pockets together with a message that mentioned:
Hi there, Vitalik, I imagine in you, simply need to know your opinion on this. BTW, assist to confirm the return tackle, and I’ll return the remaining after you. And hi there Wintermute, sorry, I solely have 18M, and that is what I can return. Keep Optimistic!
Six hours after that, they began returning the 18 million in a batch of 1 million per transaction. To this point, the hacker has despatched 17 million OP tokens to a pockets Gaevoy claimed belongs to Optimism.
🙃
— wishful cynic (@EvgenyGaevoy) June 10, 2022
In response to the hacker’s resolution, Gaevoy tweeted an upside-down smiley emoji. Optimism additionally posted that it has obtained the stolen crypto whereas revealing that Wintermute “has dedicated to reimbursing the Optimism Basis.”
Over the previous few hours, the tackle opened a line of communication with Wintermute on-chain and 17mm of 20mm OP has now been returned. There was additionally 1mm despatched to @VitalikButerin yesterday (🤷♂️) which is being recovered.
We’ll proceed to put up updates as they arrive in.
— Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨) (@optimismPBC) June 10, 2022
The hacker can be holding the remaining 2 million OP tokens as a bounty. Optimism basis additionally confirmed that it’s within the strategy of recovering the 1 million OP despatched to Vitalik Buterin.
The information of the return has had a constructive affect on OP value. The token has risen by 13.2% within the final 24 hours, making it one of many largest gainers right this moment.
