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Verge Is Hit By Reorganization Attack – Devs Says That Funds Are Safe

It’s been just revealed that Pornhub payment option Verge (XVG) suffered from a brutal attack that allowed malicious actors to work on something thayt seems to be one of the deepest block reorganizations in blockchain history.

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It’s been revealed that Coin Metrics data engineer Antoine Le Calvez was one of the first to report the incident – they highlighted that the attack involved more than 560,000 blocks.

Coin Metrics researcher Lucas Nuzzi added that the attack erased more than six months’ worth of XVG transactions in what is likely the deepest block reorganization in a top 100 cryptos.

Summarizing the attacker’s actions

In a new medium post, Verge core team member Alex Ederer summarized what the attacker tried to do but failed.

“Mine on sidechain for months with reduced diff.

Spawn enough daemons to go + 50% of the total amount of full nodes.

The chain is rebuilt on top of that sidechain.

Top that with huge mining power on your new chain.

Use the Verge you just mined to pay for mining power.”

 

Just the other day, Verge team was posting that “Malicious elements have tried to take over our blockchain. Working with miners, our dev team has released a fix, preventing damage. In 13 hours, it will be business as usual. Thank you for your understanding.”

Stay tuned to learn more details, and you can also check out the original article posted in the Daily Hodl.

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