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Steem hard bifork that day staged "seize the currency" : the hacker intervention, sun yuchen has called the police

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Sun yuchen: this is theft.

On May 20, the Steem community announced a hard fork upgrade of HF 0.23, according to beats BlockBeats. Meanwhile, the team advocating the hard fork upgrade classified some accounts as "dangerous" and seized the assets in these accounts. These seized assets amounted to 23,627,501 STEEM (valued at approximately $5 million).

According to the original plan, these assets will be transferred to @community321 account last night. Transfer plan doesn't seem to matter now, however, have learned suspected a white hat in the event, he will be late in May 20, all the seized money from @ community321 stole and send to this account Bittrex trading platform, note: "the money is to use HF23 on May 20, 2020 stolen, please before the fork will they returned to the original owner:)"

Bittrex later posted an official blog saying it had earlier shut down Steem's top-up and withdrawal services. This morning, someone had 23,627,501 STEEM (worth about $5 million) in their primary Bittrex account. What happened during the hard fork and the allegations that the community321 account was hacked from outside the Bittrex ecosystem are two separate issues. Bittrex does not confuse the two issues.

Bittrex will identify and identify the original holder of the funds and return them to the original account. At the same time, Bittrex believes that the hard bifurcation upgrade of the Steem network has caused a great deal of controversy and hopes that the community can properly resolve this issue. But in the spirit of the blockchain consensus,Regardless of how this consensus was reached, the community has agreed to transfer funds from the 64 accounts to the community321 account. If you want blockchain to succeed, you have to follow the rules of blockchain.

Sun later tweeted that the hacker's actions were "theft" and that he was working with relevant law enforcement authorities to take action to recover the stolen assets.