List Of High Profile Cryptocurrency Hacks So Far (August 24th 2017)
August 2010 - Bitcoin protocol hack, 184 billion Bitcoins created
March 2014 - Mt. Gox exchange hack with $473 million stolen
January 2015 - Bitstamp exchange hack with $5.1 million stolen
June 2016 - Decentralized Autonomous Organization(DAO) hack with $50 million stolen
July 2016 - Steemit.com hack with $85,000 stolen
August 2016 - Bitfinex hack with $66 million stolen
July 2017 - CoinDash ICO hack with $7 million stolen
July 2017 - Parity multisig wallet hack with $32 million stolen
August 2017 - Enigma ICO hack with $500,000 stolen
These incidents are too frequent for comfort! What can be done to combat this?
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Better IT security haha. Hacks needed to happen to put the fear of god into developers, over time the security of crypto as a whole should improve :D
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It surely isn't the most comforting thing...but I do see the crypto space quickly adapting to the pressures of increased security needs
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