The DAO, the distributed autonomous organization that had collected over $150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether, has reportedly been hacked, sparking a broad market sell-off.
A leaderless organization comprised of a series of smart contracts written on the ethereum codebase, The DAO has lost 3.6m ether, which is currently sitting in a separate wallet after being split off into a separate grouping dubbed a "child DAO".
Ether markets plunged on the news, falling below $13 in trading on the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex. With ether currently trading at roughly $17.50 per coin, that puts the value of the stolen cryptocurrency at more than $60m.
http://www.coindesk.com/dao-attacked-code-issue-leads-60-million-ether-theft/
