02-15-2022, 11:18 AM
[align=center]Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” in its Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH — it has been fixed.[/align]
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[align=center]Developers from the Ethereum layer-2 scaling project Optimism announced that a “critical bug” had been identified and subsequently patched earlier this month. The bug, which could have enabled hackers to create as much Ether (ETH) in an Optimism account balance as they wished, was first discovered by white-hat hacker and iOS jailbreak software Cydia developer Jay Freeman.[/align]
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[align=center]Developers from the Ethereum layer-2 scaling project Optimism announced that a “critical bug” had been identified and subsequently patched earlier this month. The bug, which could have enabled hackers to create as much Ether (ETH) in an Optimism account balance as they wished, was first discovered by white-hat hacker and iOS jailbreak software Cydia developer Jay Freeman.[/align]