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From what I can tell, the ICO wasn't hacked as such. The ICO customers were just scammed.

Edit: title is better now

The attackers gained control of the official website, slack channel, Twitter handle and mailing list. That's even worse than what happened to coindash.

It's just scam if attackers are insiders.

same password and it's such an easy feat for an insider.

Especially when the aim is to get press attention.

It's cleverly machiavellian. It accomplishes so much for the ICO founders with little to no recourse.

who says they aren't? Seems like a pretty simple trick.

They were pretty much hacked in every sense of the word. Lost control of website, twitter, etc.

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