Blockchain.info Sent $8k worth of Bitcoin to Wrong Address
Bitcoin wallet company Blockchain recently unearthed some really critical flaws in their Android wallets that were inappropriately sending money to one non-random user. According to the available information, it was a serious cryptographic and programming error that ended up sending around $8,000 worth of Bitcoins to a wrong address. Blockchain's advisory, that was published last Thursday, further explained the insights of this flaw. It said that their private key generating assistant, random.org, was lately returning a 310 Moved Permanently response when accessed through HTTP. Under....
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