According to ChainCatcher news and on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, StakeWise recovered 5,041 osETH (19.3 million USD) from the Balancer hacker through a contract call early this morning. As a result, the assets stolen by the hacker from Balancer have decreased from 117 million USD to 98 million USD. The hacker has been gradually exchanging LST for ETH, and has now converted more than half of the stolen assets back into ETH.
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