Windows Ethereum Users Affected by Private Key Bug
A security alert has been issued by the Ethereum team regarding users of the Windows AlethZero and eth client. The bug fails to write the private key of some identities, which could result in lost funds transferred to these “lost identities.” A hot fix update has been published in response. Ethereum developers were not kidding when they said there might be traps and highway men lurking behind the shadows of this unexplored Ethereum Frontier. One of such traps was discovered earlier this August 7, which could fool some users into thinking they had the private keys of newly generated public....
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