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Crypto lender Shezmu recovers hacked funds through negotiation

Shezmu recovered nearly $5 million in stolen crypto through negotiations with a hacker and agreed to a higher bounty.

Leveraging yield protocol, Shezmu recovered nearly $5 million of stolen funds within hours of successfully negotiating with a hacker.

On Sept. 21, Chaofan Shou, the co-founder of blockchain analytics firm Fuzzland, alerted against a compromised storage vault belonging to Shezmu. While uncertain if the incident was a rug pull or a genuine hack, Shou confirmed that roughly $4.9 million worth of cryptocurrencies was stolen in the process.

Source: Chaofan Shou

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