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ETC Ethereum client Geth vulnerability

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Incident Overview

Ethereum Classic (ETC) tweeted that the ETC mainnet was forked due to previous vulnerabilities in the Ethereum client Geth. At present, most of the computing power is on the mainnet. Core-geth node operators should update to v1.12.1 or higher as soon as possible.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://twitter.com/eth_classic/status/1433965057348616195 (opens in a new tab)

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