DAO Potentially Hacked, Millions of Ether May Be Stolen, Griff Green Says
The DAO is being attacked for some hours, according to Griff Green, a spokesperson for Slockit. In an ongoing emergency situation currently developing Griff Green, a spokesperson for Slockit, has put out an emergency alert. He asked anyone who has a DAO split open, especially Congo Split, to message him at the Dao slack. It is not clear what is developing, but the dao is currently being drained of Ether with the balance falling below 9 million ether from 12 million raised and continuing to fall. Griff Green stated: “The DAO is being attacked. It has been going on for 3-4 hours, it is....
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Ethereum took a drastic dive this morning as news came in that the DAO smart contract address is being drained of ether in an ongoing and developing news story. Millions of ether are moving to an unkown address with some suggesting that it may be a recursive split hack. Griff Green, spokesman for slockit, the creators of the Dao, stated on the DAO slack channel: “The DAO is being attacked. It has been going on for 3-4 hours, it is draining ETH at a rapid rate. This is not a drill. You can help: If anyone knows who has the split proposals Congo Split, Beer Split and FUN-SPLT-42, please DM....
The organizer of The Robin Hood Group which once stole 10% of all circulating ETH from under a black hat hackers nose wants to change the way we think about charity.A former chemical engineer, Griff Green, 36, traded in his savings for precious metals, which he used to travel the world for years before settling as a Bitcoin missionary in Ecuador. He led a white hat hacker war against the infamous black hat hacker of The DAO, and he organizes cryptocurrency camps at Burning Man to spread the word about crypto while dressed as Santa and riding a massive metal Doge.His next big mission, with....
Griff Green, a spokesman for Slock.it, the team which founded the DAO, says in an interview with CoinTelegraph that he is privy to some of the pool operator’s discussions and they “very much back the soft fork.” However, he doubts pool operators are willing to go on record and publicly support the fork. Responding to potential suggestions of negotiation with the attacker, Green stated: “I'm not personally open to negotiations because with a hard fork we can get all of the ETH back to the people who were attacked.” He further added: “I think there is a general consensus in the Ethereum....
Cryptocurrency exchange Kucoin may have been hacked for $150 million in bitcoin and multiple ERC20 tokens. The Singapore-based exchange confirmed the September 25 security breach, but did not disclose the amount stolen. “Bitcoin, ERC-20 and, other tokens in Kucoin’s hot wallets were transferred out of the exchange,” said Kucoin in an update on Saturday. Meanwhile, Bitfinex and Tether, issuers of the centralized stablecoin USDT, immediately froze a combined $33 million worth of USDT suspected to be part of the funds looted in the Kucoin hack – an action that has....
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