A hacker, who on Monday stole $8.three one thousand thousand from the private wallet of Nexus Mutual CEO Hugh Karp, has sent a ransom need for $2.66 1000000 in Ether (ETH) embedded in the input data of an Ethereum transaction.

In the poorly-worded Dec. sixteen message, the attacker addresses Karp directly, and seems to suggest that they volition cease selling off the stolen NXM until the price recovers or Karp sends 4,500 ETH.

"Hullo Hugh. I will non sell wNXM any more until wNXM recovers his value or y'all send me iv.5k ETH. If you need any negotiation with me, send msg to my eth address. Following are your addresses. You are rich, Hugh [...]"

Information technology is unclear if the hacker offered to render the remainder of the stolen NXM in the latter scenario, though this would likely exist a prerequisite condition for Karp if he decides to ship the bribe.

Whatever negotiation is requested to exist directed via the assaulter's Ethereum address, and the message concludes past list 3 wallet addresses claimed to belong to Karp, along with the assertion that he is "rich."

As Cointelegraph reported, the hacker supposedly managed to install a compromised version of Metamask that tricked Karp into signing a transaction transferring all his 370,000 NXM to the attacker'southward wallet.

In a tweet, Karp complemented the attacker on some "side by side level stuff," while noting that information technology would be hard to greenbacks out so much NXM, and offer a $300,000 bounty if the tokens were returned in full.

All the same, undeterred, the attacker has reportedly already laundered upward to $2.seven million worth of the stolen NXM, and is now enervating a like amount to not sell off the balance.