The attacker behind a $5.8 million exploit of Solana-based protocol Loopscale has agreed to return the stolen money in exchange for a 10% bounty.

The exploiter eventually returned the $176 million worth of stolen crypto two weeks after stealing it. However, many more exploits don’t have such happy endings.

The native token of the Holograph protocol (HLG) was down as much as 60%, according to CoinGecko data, after a malicious actor ran an exploit that allowed them to mint 1 billion HLG tokens.

“Ok, funds will be returned later,” the exploiter wrote in an onchain message, accepting the bounty offered by the GMX team. Hacker begins returning stolen crypto ...

The North Korea-linked exploiter that drained $230 million from Indian crypto exchange WazirX has converted most of the loot to ether ETH$1,830.05, blockchain tracker Lookonchain said on Friday.