These hackers stole $85 million in Ether to save it from *the real crooks* (or so they say)

The clock was tickingThieves stole $32 million worth of Ether out of a popular Ethereum wallet, and with every passing minute the potential for additional losses grew. 

And so the White Hat Group stepped in. 

Like something out of a weird cryptocurrency reboot of National Treasure, the unidentified WHG hackers decided to steal the remaining Ether before the crooks could. All $85 million of it. 

Or so they say. 

The claim was posted to Reddit on July 19, and details a plan to return the funds to their rightful owners. Here's how the poster, jbaylina, says it went down: Read more...