Not again: Hackers steal $32 million worth of Ethereum

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Ethereum has become a top target for hackers. 

The promising cryptocurrency that's also a platform for decentralized applications has skyrocketed in value over the last six months (though it also had a serious drop in price in the last couple of weeks). But hacker attacks and theft of ether have become commonplace, and the last one is one of the worst so far. 

An unknown hacker or a group of hackers exploited a vulnerability in the way in which Parity, an Ethereum wallet, implemented multi-sig wallets, stealing some 153,000 worth of ether, which was valued around $32 million at the time of theft.  Read more...

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Not again: Hackers steal $32 million worth of Ethereum Not again: Hackers steal $32 million worth of Ethereum Reviewed by mimisabreena on Thursday, July 20, 2017 Rating: 5

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