Though the victim initially offered the attacker a 10% bounty, it appears that all recoverable funds have been returned.
Somewhere in the world, a whale is thanking their lucky stars it wasn't Lazarus. The victim of last week's 'address poisoning' attack, who was seemingly tricked into sending wrapped Bitcoin tokens worth $71 million to an attacker who mimicked their address for that purpose, has recovered almost all available funds, blockchain data shows.
While the value in U.S. dollars of the recovered funds stands at only about $66.8 million, since the attacker largely swapped the stolen WBTC tokens to ether following the theft, the loss in value can be attributed to ether's slightly greater decline in price over the past week relative to Bitcoin.
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