The $65M DeFi hacker everyone's been talking about just got exposed by the DOJ, and his backstory is absolutely wild.

Andean Medjedovic—a math prodigy who graduated high school at 14 from Waterloo (yes, Vitalik's alma mater) and finished his undergrad in just 3 years—turned out to be the guy behind both the Indexed Finance ($16.5M) and KyberSwap ($49M) exploits.

Here's where it gets spicy: After the Indexed Finance hack in 2021, he literally embedded Neo-Nazi symbols ("1488") in his wallet address and scattered racial slurs throughout his code. When the Canadian court tried to freeze his assets, he just... ghosted. Skipped his court hearing and went underground in Europe and South America.

Then came KyberSwap. This time he got even bolder—allegedly demanded *complete control* of the protocol, governance tokens, all company documents, and assets in exchange for returning the funds. Classic extortion move.

The kicker? He tried to launder everything through crypto mixers and even paid an undercover agent $80k to help release $500k in stolen crypto through a bridge.

Now he's wanted internationally. US, Canada, Netherlands all hunting him down. Whether he ever faces trial? That's the million-dollar question.

It's a reminder that genius-level intellect doesn't equal good judgment—and code being "law" doesn't mean you get a free pass on actual laws.