Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain

Enlarge (credit: ethereumclassic.org) Attackers have stolen almost $ 500,000 worth of the Ethereum Classic digital currency by carrying out a compute-intensive hack that rewrote its blockchain, officials with Coinbase, one of the leading crypto currency exchanges, said on Monday. The heist was the result of carrying out what’s known as a rollback attack, which allowed […]