Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem

The DAO Reentrancy Attack: $60.00M Reported Loss

June 17, 2016·Historical incident record

Incident Overview

The DAO smart contract running on the Ethereum suffered a reentrancy-attack-on-smart-contract.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization) (opens in a new tab)

This record presents information attributed to the linked sources. Incident dates describe the original event, not a new report. Reported loss figures reflect the source record and are not current market valuations.

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