Zcash Vulnerability That Put Millions of Dollars of ZEC at Risk Has Been Fixed
A critical vulnerability in Zcash node software could have allowed attackers to drain millions of dollars of ZEC from a deprecated shielded pool.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Zcash is showing up inside the Security Incidents theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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