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The DAO Hack
On June 18, 2016, an attacker successfully exploited a vulnerability in The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (The DAO) on the Ethereum blockchain to steal 3.7M Ether valued at $70M.
- Date it happened
- 2016-06-17
- Organisation involved
- The DAO
- Product, system or model
- The DAO is a decentralized investment fund built on the Ethereum network.
Where this came from
- cryptocompare.com
- blockchain-council.org
- hackingdistributed.com
- hackingdistributed.com
- wired.com
- medium.com
- cryptocurrencyhub.io
- blog.bity.com
- medium.freecodecamp.org
- coincentral.com
- qz.com
- blog.coinbase.com
- medium.com
- rsk.co
- ccn.com
- blog.slock.it
- newsbtc.com
- businessinsider.com.au
- futurism.com
- multichain.com
- forbes.com
- coincodex.com
- coindesk.com
- en.wikipedia.org
Attribution
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