The hacker returned half of the stolen ETC from the exchange Gate.io
Cryptocurrency Exchange Gate.io recently confirmed the fact of a successful 51% attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain, which occurred on January 7.
After that, the crypto exchange announced that it would reimburse all losses to its users who made about 40,000 ETC.
But yesterday there was news that the hacker returned about $100,000 in ETC back on January 10.
Why was the money returned?
Crypto exchange suggests that this may be a white hat hacker who wants to remind users about the problems of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general.