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Whitehat developer unlocks $2 million stuck in a 2016 Ethereum ICO contract for nine years
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CoinDesk Staff(06:52 AM UTC)
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0xflorent, a security researcher, found an integer-overflow flaw in the HongCoin token sale contract that lets the team unlock funds for 48 original investors. It is the second such recovery he has publicized in eight days.
A security researcher who goes by 0xflorent worked with the team behind a 2016 Ethereum (ETH) ICO contract to unlock about $2 million in ether that had sat trapped for nine…
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