PANews reported on October 8 that according to ZachXBT monitoring, HTX has sent a white hat bounty of 250 ETH to the hacker, worth $410,000, with a note saying "You made the right decision, we have paid the white hat bounty. Please submit a security vulnerability analysis report so that we can avoid similar incidents in the future. Your privacy will be protected." According to previous news, the HTX hot wallet was hacked on September 24, and 5,000 ETH was stolen. HTX said at the time that if the hacker returned the funds before October 2, it would provide a 5% white hat bounty. The HTX attacker returned 4,999 ETH yesterday.