From my understanding it wasn't a true 51% attack from having the hashing power, but rather a bug in the code that allowed the perpetrator to manipulate the timestamp of a solved block. Here's a reddit post that explains it far better than I ever could.
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Yes I have read it that's why I said that the entire Code is at fault and Verge needs to Hard Fork rather than trying to fix what's fucked up.