3 ms·
My memory of the event may be confused with another one, but I believe the guy who did this did it accidentally. He was as confused by the result as everyone el
by apetresc 9y ago
My memory of the event may be confused with another one, but I believe the guy who did this did it accidentally. He was as confused by the result as everyone else - in fact, he froze the account on his own, so that he wouldn't have access to it.
- kbenson 9y agoThat was one of the events, I think. There was another one. Perhaps that's the one being described here. I seem to recall that one had a bunch of whitehats who figured out the bug and rushed to exploit everyone just to prevent the bad actors, and so they could return the funds later.
- dsr_ 9y agoThis all happened less than a year ago and there was a lot of discussion of it, here and elsewhere. We have google and duck-duck-go, not to mention a search bar on most HN pages. Perhaps we could point to facts rather than vague remembrances?
- kbenson 9y agoFeel free to look it up and confirm or deny my recollection. That's more work than I was willing to put into it at the time I wrote that. I don't think there's any problem relating vague recollections as long as they are presented as such and attempt to expand the conversation.
- DennisP 9y agoThat's the recent Parity multisig wallet freeze. So far it doesn't look like there will be a fork for that. The event I described happened in the summer of 2016, and was a fairly sophisticated attack.