Ten years ago, an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, helping to spur the creation of the modern crypto security industry.

The DAO exploit turns 10 years old. On June 17, 2016, an attacker drained 3.6M ETH using a reentrancy bug, splitting Ethereum and creating Ethereum Classic.

Ten years ago, an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, helping to spur the creation of the modern crypto security industry.