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posted by takyon on Wednesday November 15 2017, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the vanishing-act dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

A crypto-currency collector who was locked out of his $1m Ethereum multi-signature wallet this week by a catastrophic bug in Parity's software has claimed the blunder was not an accident – it was "deliberate and fraudulent."

On Tuesday, Parity confessed all of its multi-signature Ethereum wallets – which each require multiple people to sign-off transactions – created since July 20 were "accidentally" frozen, quite possibly permanently locking folks out of their cyber-cash collections. The digital money stores contained an estimated $280m of Ethereum; 1 ETH coin is worth about $304 right now. The wallet developer blamed a single user who, apparently, inadvertently triggered a software flaw that brought the shutters down on roughly 70 crypto-purses worldwide.

[...] Cappasity has alleged the wallet freeze was no accident: someone deliberately triggered the mass lock down, we're told, and there's evidence to prove it. By studying devops199's attempts to extract and change ownership of ARToken's and Polkadot's smart contracts, it appears the user was maliciously poking around, eventually triggering the catastrophic bug in Parity's software. "Our internal investigation has demonstrated that the actions on the part of devops199 were deliberate," said Cappasity's founder Kosta Popov in a statement this week.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/10/parity_280m_ethereum_wallet_lockdown_hack/

Ethereum.

Previously: $300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @04:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @04:17PM (#597332)

    I think it is very funny that the fervent "fight the Man" crowd gets burned by something that "the Man" prevents (or shields one from) from happening.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:40PM (#597378)

    of course you do, you suck-ass, Renfield POS.