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PSA: Vulnerability in popular Bitcoin wallet exposes your private keys

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

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BitPay’s popular Bitcoin wallet, Copay, has been compromised – and your cryptocurrency might be at risk. Developer BitPay has warned users that its open-source wallet Copay has been infected with malware designed to steal users’ private keys. This means anyone running the malicious versions of its app “should assume that private keys on affected wallets may have been compromised.” BitPay says the malicious code was deployed on versions 5.0.2 and 5.1.0, but it remains unclear whether – or how widely – the flaw has been exploited. For the record, Copay boasts over 100,000 installs on Android. The developer says that its…

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