Project

Parity Technologies

Berlin-based blockchain company founded by Gavin Wood. Author of the Parity multi-sig wallet contract whose code defect froze approximately $300M of ETH in November 2017.

Records: 1
Cumulative losses: $300.0M

Records featuring Parity Technologies

enabler·November 6, 2017dormant
Parity Multi-Sig Wallet Freeze — November 2017
A user calling himself 'devops199' invoked a library function that turned a critical Parity contract into a self-destructed shell, freezing approximately $300M worth of ETH across 587 wallets — permanently inaccessible.
$300.0M affected

Records featuring Parity Technologies

Parity Multi-Sig Wallet Freeze — November 2017