Sentiment has recovered $870,000 after negotiating with the hacker who stole over $1M worth of crypto from the company.
The hacker was offered $95,000 to return 90% of the stolen funds.
- Sentiment
sent a message to the hacker offering $95,000 if the hacker returned
the funds by April 6, urging the hacker to return them.
- Initial
estimates of the lost funds were around $500,000, but after a while,
community members stated that the losses stood at around $1M.
- Some
reports have claimed that the attack may have been a re-entry attack,
while others said that the threat actor relied on a bug.
- The
company threatened to offer a public bounty of $95,000 for anyone with
information on the case if the threat actor didn't return the funds.
- The breach occurred on April 4.
