When one of the biggest phishing attacks, which has been seen a lot in the cryptocurrency world recently, happened last week, an interesting repayment came from the hacker.

After losing 1155 WBTC worth $71 million on Friday, the hacker made a repayment of $14 million today. The hacker sent a total of 4676 ETH back to the victimized crypto investor at regular periods.

What happened?

As it is known, hacks based on carelessness of users have recently started to increase in the cryptocurrency world. In this case, the victimized user wanted to send 1155 WBTC to an address he created himself. This address appeared in the transaction history of the user who initially sent 0.05 ETH to the account. However, the hacker who followed this person created another similar address by making the letters at the beginning and end the same.

The hacker also sent ETH close to 0 to the victim’s account, thus entering his transaction history.

The fact that the beginning and end of addresses usually appear in transaction histories caused the person to be surprised. As a result, this person actually sent all his WBTC not to the address to which he sent 0.05 ETH, but to the very similar (but not the same) address that appears above it.

If this person had checked all the letters of the addresses, this would not have happened. The copy/paste transaction resulted in a loss of $71 million.