alt Hacker NewsWhy do they say it's white hat hackers?
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tom_ • yesterday at 11:27 PM
Purported white-hat hackers. The implication is that these people are presumably describing themselves as such, but it may not actually be true.
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faitswulff • yesterday at 11:58 PM
The same reason scam artists describe themselves as businessmen
simonw • yesterday at 11:25 PM
Presumably to try and reduce the chance of a mass panic among their users.
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While moving the funds, the attackers left an OP_RETURN message with the text "we are whitehats. contact us on chain" https://mempool.space/tx/c103de95817b43f2df635ec6f35ff126ca2...