CoinDesk (@CoinDesk): TODAY: 10 years ago, an attacker drained 3.6M $ETH (current value=$6.26B) from The DAO in a single reentrancy exploit.
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TODAY: 10 years ago, an attacker drained 3.6M $ETH (current value=$6.26B) from The DAO in a single reentrancy exploit. The vulnerability had been flagged weeks earlier but fixes were still awaiting community approval when the attacker struck. The resulting hard fork created Ethereum Classic and split the @ethereum community in two.