dForce hacker returns nearly $25 million in stolen cryptocurrency

WTF?! It’s a bizarre turn of events, no matter how you slice it. In the mostly anonymous world of cryptocurrency, once funds have been transferred, there’s usually no recourse and no way to trace who took the currency. Presumably, the hacker(s) involved here either made some serious mistakes that pointed to their guilt or they suddenly developed a conscience and felt compelled to return the booty. Or maybe they are a white hat hacker that just wanted to exploit a vulnerability in the service in hopes of expediting a fix?

dForce founder Mindao Yang said in a Medium post on April 19 that the lending protocol in the dForce network, Lendf.Me, had been attacked and roughly $25 million in digital assets had been stolen. It’s the type of headline that has unfortunately grown quite common in the world of cryptocurrency but this one has taken a rather unexpected turn.

In a follow-up post on Medium earlier today, Yang reported that nearly…