I was intrigued that there has been a thread about this story in the Press section for over a day and the M-community didn't touch it. Neither the "normals" nor the trolls - just... crickets:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1614010.0Dash users not affected, I assume. Could it happen here? Anything we should learn from their misfortune?
Of course it could happen to us.
It could happen to any coin.
In theory, but with Dash ASICs and split block rewards between miners and MNs, I wouldn't think it'd be worth it.