New blockchain data explorer Blockchair reveals that a hacker took advantage of an exploit in the Dogecoin (DOGE) blockchain, causing the majority of its nodes to crash.
Earlier this week, a Dogecoin monitoring platform noticed that the number of DOGE nodes dropped from 647 to just 205, a decrease of around 69%.
“Our monitoring made us aware that the vulnerability appears to have been exploited and that almost 69% of the Dogecoin network has gone down. Blockchair displays the number of public nodes. Before, there were 647, and at the time of writing this article, there were only 205.”
However, according to Blockchair, some DOGE nodes have since recovered as there are currently 331 active nodes worldwide at the time of writing.
In a recent thread on social media platform .
“I used a publicly disclosed vulnerability (by BTC developer Tobias Ruck) to remove 69% of the Dogecoin network from an old thinkpad in rural El Salvador.”
According to Kohl, most DOGE users didn’t even notice it.
“Only nodes that were not on the latest version were affected – which made up the majority of the network, excluding CEXs (centralized exchanges) and most other large custodians – which is why most Doge users never noticed it, and few understand the self- guard.
News of the exploit had little impact on the price of DOGE, as the meme asset is trading at $0.413 at the time of writing, down 4.7% over the past 24 hours.
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