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153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack

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Re: 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack

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That's like 30 Million USD at current prices? This is close to the DAO hack in USD value, not another fork now surely?

A hard fork couldn't undo the damage if everybody wanted to. The exploiter/hacker/scammer, whatever you want to label them, can move ETH into other coins on exchanges immediately. This will cause an innocent party to buy them, removing any chance of reversal affecting the person[s] responsible.

During the DAO hack, the funds were prevented from moving anywhere so a hard fork caused a direct reversal.

That's my understanding, anyway.

Re: 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack

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Parity shipped with a built-in Solidity contract to implement multi-sig wallets. That contract had a vulnerability that is now being exploited.

Importantly, the contract is not part of the Ethereum protocol, so other implementations and non-multi-sig Parity wallets are safe.

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