While the hacking attack on the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex remains hot on the agenda, Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun offered a reward to the hacker.
Offering a 5% reward for the Poloniex hacker, Sun stated the following in his post:
“We offer 5% white hat reward to Poloniex hacker.
Please refund the funds to the following ETH/TRX/BTC wallets. “We will give you 7 days to evaluate this offer before resorting to law enforcement.”
We are offering a 5% white hat bounty to the Poloniex hacker. Please return the funds to the following ETH/TRX/BTC wallets. We will give you 7 days to consider this offer before we engage law enforcement.
ETH Wallet: 0x176F3DAb24a159341c0509bB36B833E7fdd0a132 TRX:…— H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@justinsuntron) November 10, 2023
After the Poloniex hack, TRX price rose up to 14%. However, TRX, which gave back some of these gains, continues to be traded at $ 0.106 at the time of writing.
*This is not investment advice.