Security Firm Asks Exchanges to Help It Find Ethereum Classic ‘Attacker’

China-based security firm SlowMist has claimed that it has enough evidence to locate the culprit behind recent chain attacks on ethereum classic.

In a Medium article published Wednesday, SlowMist summarized the bulk of their analysis on ethereum classic, specifying the three wallet addresses and four transaction hashes that launched the two-day block reorganization (reorg) attacks on the network. The company also corroborated information released by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

Both SlowMist and Coinbase said double spends have occurred as a result of block reorgs, with SlowMist contending that a total of seven transactions were rolled back from the network and 54,200 ETC (almost $270,000) spent a second time.

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