This is exactly what they did in the following 2 articles:
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-traders-who-lost-big-in-poloniex-flash-crash-receive-bitcoin-refunds
https://cointelegraph.com/news/poloniex-will-reimburse-135-million-loss-from-clams-flash-crash
I'm a victim here. I've lost more than one BTC in this 1,800 BTC affair, which I explain in this topic.
Coindesk and Cointelegraph are both saying I will get my money back, but I won't, nor will anyone. It's 100% fake news, and Poloniex knows it very well. That's his plan.
What Poloniex has been announcing is that to all people who have had their money stolen, Poloniex offers all trading fees. That sounds like a nice gesture, except that trading fees for a maker is 0.15% at this exchange. As anyone can imagine, to get 1,800 BTC back from a 0.15% fee, that will take a lot of trading... And actually, no trading will happen. Because, as everybody affected, when I discovered that my coins were gone, I quickly withdrew what was left of it. Hey, when you see that your coins disappear, you don't leave them at an exchange you cannot trust!
So Poloniex won't have anything to pay, and that's what Coindesk and Cointelegraph should have they have said, if they had understood anything about the issue, or if they had any will to give good information to their readers.
Reimbursing the amount through trading fees sounds like a terrible idea to me. Why would a person invest such a huge amount into the same exchange which was hacked.
The article also said that Poloniex had reimbursed 10% of the lost amount i.e. 180 BTC and distributed it proportionally to the investors.
I wonder if that's true. Did you get the 10% of the lost amount?