Consolation payment from hacker to person who lost 71 million worth of crypto

Last Friday, the hacker paid a refund of 14 million dollars to the person who lost 1155 #WBTC worth 71 million dollars after the trap was set. It is unknown whether the attacker will send any more of the remaining money.

While one of the biggest fraudulent link attacks, which has been seen recently in the cryptocurrency world, occurred last week, an interesting payback came from the hacker.

Today, the hacker who stole the assets paid a refund of $14 million to the person who lost 1155 WBTC worth $71 million on Friday. The hacker sent a total of 4676 #ETH back to the victimized crypto investor in pieces.

As it is known, traps prepared for user negligence have started to increase in the cryptocurrency world recently. In the example here, the victim user wanted to send 1155 WBTC to an address he created. This address was visible in the transaction history of the user who initially sent 0.05 ETH to the account. However, the hacker who followed this person created another similar address by making the letters at the beginning and end the same.

The hacker sent nearly 0 ETH to the victim's account and thus entered his transaction history.

The fact that the beginning and end of the addresses were generally visible in the transaction history caused the person to be surprised. As a result, this person actually sent all his WBTC not to the address he sent 0.05 ETH to, but to the very similar (but not identical) address that appeared above it.

If this person had checked all the letters of the addresses, this situation would not have happened to him. The copy/paste style transaction caused a loss of $71 million.

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