https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethereum-devs-hack-the-hacker-price-skyrockets/Indications that something was under foot were given yesterday later afternoon when Alex Van de Sande, lead designer at the Ethereum Foundation, twitted that a whitehat attack on the DAO was under way.
After some tense hours, Sande explained in a public post that a group of very smart people which, according to Stephan Tual, were composed of
members of eth foundation, devs, security experts, ethcore, slock, acting as individuals and not as representatives or with any endorsement of their employers, infiltrated all open split proposals and secured 7.2 million eth now held in a child DAO with the team holding the private keys of the curator.
Fabian Vogelsteller, lead Ðapp developer at Ethereum, stated in a public post:
We know the curator of the Attacker DAO with 3.5M ether, now 7.2 ether are safe in a DAO where we also know the curator. With a temporary Soft Fork all this ethers can be send to a refund contract and the nightmare is over!
There seems to be little, if any, controversy regarding the soft fork which has already been merged in Parity, one of Ethereums clients, and will be merged in Go within a day or two. According to an ethpool vote, miners are almost unanimously in favor, developers are in full consensus, and most users seem to be in favor.
However, the hard-fork, which has been subject to much debate, may be avoided. Sande, who has been against the hard-fork from the beginning, stated that the [h]ard fork is unnecessary at this point.
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