DAO Security Advisory: live updates

This post is being live updated.

Friday 17/6–12:01 UK time

The Ethereum Foundation has published its statement and a description of the solution.

In summary, a hardfork will retrieve all stolen funds from the attacker. If you have purchased DAO tokens, you will be transferred to a smart contract where you can only retrieve funds. Since no money in the DAO was ever spent, nothing was lost.

Friday 17/6–11:59 UK time

A community driven solution minimizing damage looks within our grasp. More info very soon.

Friday 17/6–11:52 UK time

The Ethereum Foundation is about to make a statement.

Friday 17/6–11:13 UK time

It would appear the attacker has moved the stolen ether to a child DAO, which means that the funds cannot be moved for at least 27 days.

Friday 17/6–10:31 UK Time

We’re seeing a strong mobilization of the entire community: experts in the field, the Ethereum Foundation, exchanges and miners are coming together to assess the situation and mitigate the attack.

If you’d like to help, please continue to spam the Ethereum network as per the instructions below.

Friday 17/6–09:27 UK TIME

The DAO is currently sustaining a sophisticated attack.

The entire Ethereum community, including the Ethereum Foundation and experts from various companies in the field are working together to analyse and attempt to stop the attacker.

You can help:

1. If anyone knows who has the split proposals Congo Split, Beer Split and FUN-SPLT-42, please make yourself known on The DAO’s Slack or forums.

2. If you are a DHT, you can vote ‘yes’ on those aforementioned split proposals. This is especially true for people who have tokens are blocked because they voted for Prop 43 (the music app one).

3. The community needs to spam the network so that it can mount a counter attack.

Please use this in your Ethereum client to spam the chain:

for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { eth.sendTransaction({from: eth.accounts[4], gas: 2300000, gasPrice: web3.toWei(20, ‘shannon’), data: ‘0x5b620186a05a131560135760016020526000565b600080601f600039601f565b6000f3’}) }