Crema Finance offered the attacker $1.6 million in 2022 in exchange for returning the stolen funds and avoiding legal prosecution

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Crema suffered an approximately $9-million hack in 2022. Much like the Cetus case, the Crema hacker was offered a deal to return the funds while keeping $1.6 million in exchange for not reporting the attack to law enforcement.

Cetus is asking the hacker to return all but $6 million, or 2,324 Ether, of the stolen funds in exchange for a promise not to pursue legal action. The protocol lost $223 million to an exploit on May 22.