0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoMIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Saysslashdot.orgexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down18
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minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoCode isn’t law. The article above does a bad job of explaining it and makes it sound like it was just a weekend bug find. It wasn’t a bug, it was them setting up a bunch of fake entities misdirect funds. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/sophisticated-25m-ethereum-heist-took-about-12-seconds-doj-says/
Code isn’t law. The article above does a bad job of explaining it and makes it sound like it was just a weekend bug find. It wasn’t a bug, it was them setting up a bunch of fake entities misdirect funds.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/sophisticated-25m-ethereum-heist-took-about-12-seconds-doj-says/