VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
Root cause
Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Forensic narrative
The DAO smart contract running on the Ethereum suffered a reentrancy-attack-on-smart-contract. Attack method (per SlowMist): Reentrancy attack. Reported loss: $ 60,000,000.
Primary source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization) ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- ethereum
- protocol
- The DAO
- bug_class
- reentrancy
- date_occurred
- 2016-06-17
- loss_usd
- $60,000,000
- source_id
- sm:the-dao::2016-06-17
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