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Board Altcoin Discussion
Nobody's mentioned the new Ethereum hack yet?
by
nutildah
on 22/07/2017, 02:01:00 UTC
I thought it would already have already been mentioned, my apologies if it has.

But Ethereum was hacked for over $30 million dollars! It wasn't just getting somebody's keys, it was a matter of exploiting a vulnerability in the core code. You'd think it would be a bigger news story, especially since it took white hat thieves to stop black hat thieves:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether-how-it-happened-and-what-it-means-for-ethereum-9e5dc29e33ce