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Litecoin's Privacy Layer Suffered a Zero-Day Exploit That Forced a 13-Block Reorg, and the Patch Timeline Doesn't Add Up
A vulnerability in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block allowed attackers to forge invalid peg-out transactions and attempt double-spends, triggering the deepest chain reorganisation in the network's history. GitHub commits show developers had a fix weeks before the exploit landed.
·Jessica Miles