In the aftermath of a $52 million hack on Sunday that affected several DeFi projects and the decentralized exchange Curve Finance, a compassionate hacker helped recover and return some of the targeted funds.
In the first exploit, attackers leveraged a vulnerability in the Vyper programming language, which led to funds being drained from DeFi projects including JPEG'd, Metronome, and Alchemix. Another attack later drained millions from a Curve liquidity pool, according to blockchain security company Ethereum-arbitrage trading bot to front-run the malicious hackers and recover $5.4 million the hackers were attempting to steal from Curve. The Curve team communicated with the benevolent hacker, who returned the money.
