The defi staking and lending project BigWhale announced that the private key to one of their crypto wallets had been leaked, and 7,200 BNB (~$1.5 million) had been stolen.
In a long post on Twitter, the project promised “we will refund all investor funds down to the last cent”. They also wrote that “Not only are we going to use the fullest extent of the law to go after the person or persons behind this hack / attack, we will also use ALL OTHER MEANS NECESSARY – and we do have such resources at our disposal, to go after the ones who are behind this. (We work with assets within the Russian government directly…)”
In a later post on their website, however, they wrote that they do “not bear legal liability to refund investors for the losses incurred unless the hacked funds are successfully recovered”, attributing the incident to force majeure. They repeatedly claimed that they had not been involved in the theft. The project completely took down its website, redirecting it to this post.
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