Big news for cryptocurrency! The U.S. government just got back a lot of money stolen from a place called Uranium Finance. Imagine a digital bank, but it's run by computer code, not people. This bank lost a lot of money in 2021 to hackers.
- Hackers stole $53 million in cryptocurrency.
- Investigators traced the stolen money using special technology.
- They found and recovered $31 million!
- The government is giving some of this money back to the people who lost it.
What Happened | Amount |
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Total stolen | $53,700,000 |
Recovered | $31,000,000 |
Cryptocurrency is like digital money, and DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is like digital banking. This story shows that even with digital money, bad guys can steal, but good guys can also catch them!