id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-886 The DAO (organization) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2673 327 68 On June 17, 2016, the DAO was subjected to an attack exploiting a combination of vulnerabilities, including the one concerning recursive calls, that resulted in the transfer of 3.6 million Ether around a third of the 11.5 million Ether that had been committed to The DAO valued at the time at around $50M.[2][22] The funds were put into an account subject to a 28-day holding period under the terms of the Ethereum contract so were not actually gone; members of The DAO and the Ethereum community debated what to do next, with some calling the attack a valid but unethical maneuver, others calling for the Ether to be re-appropriated, and some calling for The DAO to be shut down.[22][23] Eventually, the Ethereum network was hard forked to move the funds in The DAO to a recovery address where they could be exchanged back to Ethereum by their original owners.[24] However, objectors to the hard fork continued to use the original Ethereum blockchain, now called Ethereum Classic. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-886.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-886.txt