The DAO Community Shudders With Misfortune

By June 17, 2016Ethereum

Well, it’s never a dull day in crypto-land as yesterday’s overnight was pretty eventful. Bitcoin took quite a hit in value, but the talk amongst most of the community is the coordinated attack against the DAO. The DAO Hub project which had raised close to $160 million USD had caused quite a bit of attention towards this experimental project, as it was exposed for being very vulnerable last night. “The leaked ether is in a child DAO at https://etherchain.org/account/0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490; even if no action is taken, the attacker will not be able to withdraw any ether at least for another ~27 days (the creation window for the child DAO). This is an issue that affects the DAO specifically; Ethereum itself is perfectly safe.” — Statement from Vitalik Buterin Inventor of Ethereum Last night an individual or a team of hackers managed to drain the DAO for 3.53 million Ether (roughly $50 million USD) which was routed to an unknown address. A vulnerability was found within the code which allowed the severe leaking of the autonomous organizations ship. There have been attempts to fix the situation with a counter spam attack, and there have been talks of a hard fork as well. Following the attack, a significant dive in the Ether exchange rate had taken place as well resulting in the token valuing at $15 USD per ETH. At the time of this writing, the price has rebounded to $17.75 for one Ether. The Slock.it team leader Stephan Tual had this to say in the event: “A community driven solution minimizing damage looks within our grasp.—The Ethereum Foundation has published its statement and a description of the solution. In summary, a hardfork will retrieve all stolen funds from the attacker. If you have purchased DAO tokens, you will be transferred to […]

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