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> Once hacker gets your money out of the hacked contract, no hard fork is feasible.

Why wouldn't it be feasible? Have all users update to a version of the client which artificially corrects for the balances of the hacked wallets. Isn't anything possible with a hard fork?

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Anything is possible, but it gets much harder once the money is in circulation. If the hacker has time to buy socks & soap with the stolen funds, and convert some of it to USD on an exchange - then the soap merchant and exchange will not want their wallets "corrected".

Sorting out who should get their money returned and who gets to keep it would be infeasible.

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