The altcoin blockchain named EOS was recently hit by a bug which prevented transactions two days after it went live. The result of this is seven EOS accounts being frozen and subject to a phishing scam, as the blog on the site EOS42 on Steemit recently reported.
The developers initially found the bug and saw that it paused the mainnet unexpectedly on June 16th, noting on the Telegram channel that Block.on, the EOS creator, was working on a software patch.
The block producers held a conference call discussing the problem after which they disabled the nodes and backed up data to protect the network’s history from losing. They also updated the users about the problem and the fact that the bug is being fixed – over a conference call which supports the people who said that EOS was not sufficiently decentralized.
One Cornell professor and a blockchain researcher named Emin Gun Sirer tweeted that EOS would create a major hack in the next calendar year. The EOS mainnet launched last week after raising more than $4 billion in crowd safe.
A blog on a website named EOS Emergency offered a process in which stakeholders can confirm whether the EOS private key was compromised. It also states that the stakeholders can provide confirmation they are the proper owners of the EOS account – giving a consent to unfreeze it.
Liam Wu, which is the head of community for China and South America at EOS42, began responding to reports from people who found their private keys were invalid and did not match their assigned addresses.
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