On March 27, 4:40 am UTC, Munchables identified the hacker as one of its developers. An hour of negotiations led to the former developer agreeing to return the hacked funds.
It took nearly eight hours for the Munchables hacker โ a Munchables developer โ to have a change of heart and return $62.8 million worth of Ether (ETH) stolen in an exploit without demanding a ransom.
On March 26, roughly around 9:30 pm UTC, Ethereum-based nonfungible token (NFT) game Munchables reported a hack that drained over 17,400 ETH from the GameFi app.
Munchables, along with blockchain investigators such as PeckShield and ZachXBT, began tracking the movements of the stolen funds in an attempt to intercept them.
