EtherDelta Hacked and Replaced by Fake Site That Steals Money
Return To ArticlePopular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta got hacked in spectacular fashion Wednesday, with many users unknowingly sending their tokens to the hacker instead of the exchange.
At least 308 ETH ($266,789) were stolen, as well as a large number of tokens potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Apparently, the smart contracts that govern EtherDelta’s behavior weren’t compromised in the attack. Instead, the attacker managed to take over EtherDelta’s DNS server and serve a fake version of the site to visitors.
