Financial Times
Aug 17, 2021 - 6 min
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Take the money and... return it? The cryptocurrency world was sent into quite a spin when an unidentified hacker was able to seize $600 million worth of assets from Poly Network, a decentralised cryptocurrency network whose purpose is to make exchanging between different blockchains easier. But, in a strange turn of events, community members began sympathising with the mysterious ‘Mr White Hat’. So how exactly did he get them on his side?