List Of High Profile Cryptocurrency Hacks
List Of High Profile Cryptocurrency Hacks So Far (August 24th 2017)
August 2010 - Bitcoin protocol hack, 184 billion Bitcoins created
March 2014 - Mt. Gox exchange hack with $473 million stolen
January 2015 - Bitstamp exchange hack with $5.1 million stolen
June 2016 - Decentralized Autonomous Organization(DAO) hack with $50 million stolen
July 2016 - Steemit.com hack with $85,000 stolen
August 2016 - Bitfinex hack with $66 million stolen
July 2017 - CoinDash ICO hack with $7 million stolen
July 2017 - Parity multisig wallet hack with $32 million stolen
August 2017 - Enigma ICO hack with $500,000 stolen
These incidents are too frequent for comfort! What can be done to combat this?
Better IT security haha. Hacks needed to happen to put the fear of god into developers, over time the security of crypto as a whole should improve :D
It surely isn't the most comforting thing...but I do see the crypto space quickly adapting to the pressures of increased security needs
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