Harvest Finance allows users to invest in cryptocurrency and farm price variations out for profit. The company owned up to an engineering mistake leading to the theft and has set a reward seeking the return of the funds. Harvest Finance added they believe they know the identity of the thief but have no interest in making that information public.
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Hacker Rips Off $24M from Harvest Finance, Returns Portion Minutes Later
A hacker stole roughly $24 million in cryptocurrency assets from Harvest Finance, only to return $2.5 million of it a few minutes later. So reports ZDNet.
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