CEO Aurélien Menant indicated that the exchange lost control of Bitcoin and Ether, the native token of the Ethereum network, during the incident.
Menant said that tokens tied to the DigixDAO project as well as the Augur and TheDAO projects were unaffected.
The hack comes amid the ongoing crowdsale for TheDAO, an initiative aimed at providing a funding mechanism for Ethereum projects.
Gatecoin has been facilitating the sale of tokens used to hold votes in the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) through the use of IOUs, which according to materials on the exchange’s website would be swapped for tokens following the completion of the crowdsale.
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