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Filecoin Contract Vulnerability

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Incident Overview

6Block technical staff found a serious vulnerability in the Filecoin code, through which the unlimited issuance of Filecoin can be achieved. The 6Block stated that, for proving the effectiveness of the vulnerability, the three miner accounts t01043, t027999, and t0234783 of 6Block had completed an additional issuance of 1.6 billion Filecoin using the vulnerability, taking the top three places in the Filecoin rich list. The 6Block team independently discovered and reported the vulnerability to Filecoin official, and is currently actively assisting the Filecoin to complete the vulnerability fixing.

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