Journalist Claims She Identified the 2016 DAO Hacker, Evidence Shows Investig...
An article published by journalist Laura Shin, and research stemming from the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis, claims to identify the alleged identity of The DAO hacker who drained millions of dollars worth of ethereum from the decentralized autonomous organization on June 17, 2016. Shin’s and Chainalysis’s findings accuse the former Tenx CEO, Toby Hoenisch, of being behind the $60 million hack that saw the loss of 3.6 million ether, which is now worth close to $10 billion using today’s exchange rates. Uncovering the 2016 Genesis DAO Hack In the....
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"This is yet another example of evidence preserved on the blockchain forever,” said Chainalysis. Laura Shin, a cryptocurrency journalist and host of the Unchained Podcast, claimed to have discovered the identity of the individual behind an exploit which drained more than 3.6 million Ether from Germany-based startup Slock.it’s The DAO in 2016.According to a Tuesday Bloomberg report, Shin claimed that she had “extremely strong evidence” that Mimo Capital co-founder Toby Hoenisch was responsible for removing more than 3.6 million Ether (ETH) from The DAO in June 2016 — roughly $50 million at....
Controversial as usual, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has been the protagonist of some strong claims done by the crypto-journalist Laura Shin. Laura Shin recently released a book called The Cryptopian in which she traces details about the founding of ethereum and claims to have uncovered the identity of the Ethereum 2016 DAO hacker. Amongst stories collected […]
On Tuesday, journalist Laura Shin published a story that claims to identify the 2016 Genesis DAO hacker who siphoned 3.6 million ethereum from the decentralized autonomous organization. While the story surprised the crypto community, one of the biggest eye-openers was the blockchain analysis methods leveraged, and the claim that Chainalysis allegedly “de-mixed” Wasabi transactions. Community Shocked by Chainalysis ‘De-Mixing’ Wasabi Transactions, Samourai Wallet Criticizes Wasabi’s Coinjoin Scheme An article published by the journalist Laura Shin has....
Claims by a self professed white-hat hacker about a major security risk to SushiSwap liquidity providers have been rejected by one of the exchange’s devs. The developer behind popular decentralized exchange SushiSwap has rejected a purported vulnerability reported by a white-hat hacker snooping through their smart contracts.According to media reports, the hacker claimed to have identified a vulnerability that could place more than $1 billion worth of user funds under threats, stating they went public with the information after attempts to reach out to SushiSwap’s developers resulted in....
Is Chainalysis telling the truth? Do they have a super-secret decoding tool that can break Wasabi CoinJoins? The jury is out on that one. This article contains all the evidence available, though. Yesterday, journalist and Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin broke the Internet by allegedly identifying the Ethereum DAO hacker. In the article detailing the […]