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Ethereum Smart Contract Hacks

Discussions center on vulnerabilities, exploits, and hacks in Ethereum smart contracts, including references to the DAO hack, Parity wallet incident, and debates over hard forks to reverse thefts versus blockchain immutability.

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jjnoakes • Dec 16, 2021 • View on HN

See the DAO hack for precedent.

csomar • Jun 17, 2016 • View on HN

Is this a weakness on Ethereum or the DAO?

PaulHoule • May 10, 2022 • View on HN

but isn't it really higher transactions fees, algorithmically enforced 'contracts' that get exploited by hackers, ... ?

jsprogrammer • Jul 11, 2016 • View on HN

The ETH wasn't really stolen though. I thought a contract was submitted and then executed?

43224gg252 • Aug 3, 2017 • View on HN

Do ethereum smart contracts prevent this?

2030ai • Feb 4, 2025 • View on HN

Eth famously forked and reversed txns due to someone getting scammed.

deep1144 • Jan 1, 2023 • View on HN

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api • Jan 2, 2022 • View on HN

It's a technical problem in that this shows the the VM for smart contracts is a mess. It should not be so easy to do such things.

Scoundreller • Aug 31, 2020 • View on HN

Didn’t ethereum fork to rollback a hack they didn’t like?

oh_sigh • Jul 20, 2017 • View on HN

Odds etherium does another hard fork to fix this bug?