A very very bad day for Ethereum.
Severity: Critical
Product affected: Parity Wallet
Affected implementations: Parity 1.5 or later
Summary: A vulnerability in a version of the multi-sig contract wallet.sol has been reported.
Mitigation steps: Any user with funds in a multi-sig wallet created in Parity with the affected implementations should immediately move their funds to a secure address.
Source: https://blog.parity.io/security-alert-high-2/
"Edgeless casino, swarm city, and aeternity have all been drained" --CF Slack
Source: https://twitter.com/coinfund_io/status/887757323036446720
Alleged Heist Address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb3764761e297d6f121e79c32a65829cd1ddb4d32#internaltx
I guess this is the fix here? https://github.com/paritytech/parity/pull/6103/files
Can anyone explain the technical details of this bug/fix? I'll give a 100% upvote for good answers. ;-)
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the significance is $31m
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Yes, of course, but I am asking for a technical explanation of the patch I linked to. How was the previous version vulnerable, and how does the patch fix it? (Edited my comment to reflect this)
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here's the easy explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6oalcq/important_wallets_created_with_paritys_multisig/dkg2qxh/
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thx for the info
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Wow that is not good PR for Ethereum
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Wow, that's bad!
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Dang, thats a big hit!
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Shit... That's a hell of a paycheck!
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Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
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Wow, the hits just keep on coming for Ethereum. Not good.
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where are your coins really safe?
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Resteeming - that's awful news for those with holdings.
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This is why you use your own hardware wallets
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it's also why wallets clearly need to be improved - and more hardware wallets need to be available - lots of opportunity for whoever cracks that nut!
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I believe MyEtherWallet already stopped allowing Parity as an option to access wallets a month ago.
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Yep, MEW is fine
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Still absolutely crazy though that millions got stolen like that LOL
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Buy more ERC-20 and then cry later.
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the rest of the other crypto except that 31 million worth as take by a black hat during this situation has been drained by white hats.
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Lol.. rekt
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Covering eyes...
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