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The DAO

$60.0M stolenFriday, June 17, 2016 · 3737 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-09-10

Situation Summary

6/17/2016 — EXPLOIT DETECTED

$60.0M drained from The DAO on Ethereum.

TECHNIQUE: REENTRANCY

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