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Nearly all of the $600 million stolen in a huge crypto heist has been returned — but there’s a catch
- Poly Network said all but $33 million of the $600 million worth of stolen tether digital coins have now been returned.
- But $268 million of assets is locked in an account that requires passwords from Poly Network and the hacker.
Nearly all of the $600 million stolen in one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists ever has now been returned by hackers, according to the platform targeted in the hack.
Poly Network said Thursday that all of the funds except $33 million worth of the tether digital coin have been transferred back.
In an unusual turn of events Wednesday, an anonymous person claiming to be the hacker said they were “ready to return” the funds. The identity of the hacker, or hackers, is not known.
“This attack is likely to have been watched closely by cybercriminals and law enforcement alike, potentially opening up the possibility of copycat attacks.”
Poly Network requested they send the money to three digital currency wallets. And, sure enough, the hacker had returned more than $342 million of the funds to those wallets by Thursday.
But there’s a catch. While almost all of the haul has been sent back to Poly Network, the last $268 million of assets is locked in an account that requires passwords from Poly Network and the hacker to gain access.
“It’s likely that keys held by both Poly Network and the hacker would be required to move the funds — so the hacker could still make these funds inaccessible if they chose to,” Tom Robinson, chief scientist of blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, said in a blogpost Friday.
In a message embedded in a digital currency transaction, the suspected hacker said they would “provide the final key when _everyone_ is ready.”
Record ‘DeFi’ hack
Poly Network is what’s known as a “decentralized finance” system. DeFi projects aim to use blockchain — the technology which underpins most cryptocurrencies — to replicate traditional financial services like loans and trading.
In Poly Network’s case, the DeFi system allows users to transfer tokens from one blockchain to another.
Someone exploited a vulnerability in Poly Network’s code, allowing the hacker to transfer tokens to their own crypto wallets. The platform lost more than $610 million in the attack, according to researchers at security firm SlowMist.
Poly Network called it “the biggest in defi history.”
The self-proclaimed hacker claims they carried out the theft “for fun” and that it was “always the plan” to eventually return the funds.
Dark Web ID’s Top Threats This Week

Advanced Technology Ventures
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/03/atv-venture-capital-ransomware/
Exploit: Ransomware
Electronic Arts (EA): Video Game Maker

Risk to Business: 1.207 = Extreme
Advanced Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in assets under its management, has disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack. The cybercriminals were able to steal personal information about the company’s private investors. ATV said it became aware of the attack on July 9 after its servers storing financial information were encrypted by ransomware. By July 26, the company learned that its investor data had been stolen from the servers before the files were encrypted, a hallmark of the “double extortion” tactic used by ransomware groups.

Individual Risk: 1.326 = Extreme
Investor data was accessed by cybercriminals. ATV believes the names, email addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of the individual investors in ATV’s funds were stolen in the attack. Some 300 individuals were affected by the incident
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How It Could Affect Your Business: Ransomware tactics like double and triple extortion allow cybercriminals to score even bigger paydays, making them very popular techniques.
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SeniorAdvisor
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/senior-citizens-personal-data/
Exploit: Misconfiguration
SeniorAdvisor: Senior Care Review Site

Risk to Business: 1.663 = Severe
Researchers have discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket owned by SeniorAdvisor, a site that provides ratings and information for senior care facilities. The bucket in question contained the personal data of more than three million people categorized as “leads”. The team found around 2000 “scrubbed” reviews in the misconfigured bucket, in which the user’s sensitive information was wiped or redacted. In total, it contained more than one million files and 182GB of data, none of which was encrypted and did not require a password or login credentials to access.

Risk to Individual: 1.271 = Severe
This exposed bucket was full of data including names, emails, phone numbers and dates contacted for every person designated as a lead, comprising an estimated 3 million consumers.
Customers Impacted: 3 million
How it Could Affect Your Business Companies are under the gun for cybersecurity risk often enough without rookie mistakes like failing to secure a database contributing to the danger.
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University of Kentucky
https://therecord.media/university-of-kentucky-discovers-data-breach-during-scheduled-pen-test/
Exploit: Hacking
University of Kentucky: Institution of Higher Learning

Risk to Business: 2.223=Severe
In a head-shaking turn of irony, officials at the University of Kentucky discovered that they’d already been breached while conducting a penetration test. The breach affected the university’s Digital Driver’s License platform, a web-based portal the university developed as a component of its Open-Source Tools for Instructional Support (OTIS) framework. That program provides free online teaching and test-taking capabilities to K-12 schools and colleges in Kentucky and other US states. University officials said that their investigation discovered that an unknown threat actor accessed the system between January 8, 2021, and February 6, 2021, to gain access to the DDL platform and acquire a copy of its internal database.

Risk to Business: 2.223=Severe
The database contained the names and email addresses of students and teachers in Kentucky and in all 50 states and 22 foreign countries, in all more than 355,000 individuals. The university was careful to note that the stolen information included only emails and passwords and no SSNs or financial details were included.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Business Cybercriminals have been increasingly setting their sights on education targets since the onset of the global pandemic, and that trend is not stopping in 2021.
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Reindeer
Exploit: Misconfiguration
Reindeer: Digital Marketing Firm

Risk to Business: 1.705 = Severe
New York-based digital media advertising and marketing company Reindeer left an unpleasant surprise behind when it closed its doors: an Amazon S3 bucket exposed to public access resulting in the irreversible leak of 50,000 files for a total of 32 GB of exposed data. The information exposed included about 1,400 profile photos and the details of approximately 306,000 customers in total. Users in 35 countries were represented with the US, Canada, and Great Britain accounting for almost 280,000 of those users. Nothing can be done to secure this data now.

Individual Risk: 1.622 = Severe
PII exposed includes customer names, surnames, email addresses, dates of birth, physical addresses, hashed passwords, and Facebook IDs for an estimated 306,000 customers.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
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1 – 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 – 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 – 3 = Moderate Risk
Risk scores for The Week in Breach are calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.