The 2016 Pwnie Nominee For Epic 0wnage

The DAO Heist

Credit: Some Cryptocurrencies Dweebs

Understanding cryptocurrency politics is harder than breaking them, it seems. In case you aren’t familiar with this case, someone did some work to find vulnerabilities in the language some people have put a hundred million dollars into, as if the lessons on LangSec of the past decade haven’t taught us “smart contracts” are a hilarious idea.

The DAO Heist

There’s no CVE for this issue because CVE is dead.