OpalCoin Developer: Hacker Used Fake-Wallet Attack to Steal 17% of Supply
The community supporting OpalCoin, an anonymous cryptocurrency offering decentralized storage, was recently under siege of a fake-wallet attack. A hacker stole almost 17% of the coin supply, most of which has been recovered. The Opal team announced the hack on the Bitcoin Talk forums on December 15th. The hacker spread a fake-wallet virus through the forums. The Opal team had recently posted a legitimate link on the BitcoinTalk forums to the download to their latest client. Diabanhxeo, the hacker’s profile name (ID# 210031), quoted the link on a post, but changed the link to a malicious....
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