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“The first ever conviction for the hack of a smart contract.”

Shakeeb Ahmed — an ex-Amazon security engineer who admitted to stealing over $12.3M from two cryptocurrency exchanges using exploits — has been sentenced to three years in prison, will forfeit the stolen money, and pay $5M as well.

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