{"id":33,"date":"2026-03-14T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:30:26","slug":"the-hacker-turned-bounty-hunter-late-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-hacker-turned-bounty-hunter-late-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Hacker turned Bounty Hunter&#8221; (Late 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This case involves a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that suffered an exploit where an attacker drained <strong>$20 million<\/strong> in liquidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> An attacker exploited a smart contract vulnerability to siphon assets into a private wallet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> Instead of a traditional police chase, the protocol\u2019s security team sent an on-chain message to the hacker, offering a <strong>10% &#8220;white hat&#8221; bounty<\/strong> and immunity from prosecution if the funds were returned. Surprisingly, the hacker agreed. After keeping $2 million as a legal bounty, they returned <strong>$18 million<\/strong> to the protocol, which was then redistributed to the affected investors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case involves a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that suffered an exploit where an attacker drained $20 million in liquidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}