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Laura Shin tells how she identified the apparent hacker — he denies it — by following a complicated trail of crypto transactions and using a previously undisclosed privacy-cracking forensics tool.

To put the enormity of this hack in perspective, with ETH now trading around US$3,000, 3.64 million ETH would be worth $11 billion. The DAO theft famously and controversially prompted Ethereum to do a hard fork—where the Ethereum network split into two as a way to restore the stolen funds—which ultimately left the DarkDAO holding not ETH, but far less valuable Ethereum Classic (ETC). The proponents of the fork had hoped ETC would die out, but it now trades around US$30. That means the descendant wallets of the DarkDAO now hold more than US$100 million in ETC—a high dollar monument to the biggest whodunnit in crypto.


Full report at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2...8e36d17f58