While not a good situation for verge and those invested, you people realize that all companies living on the net have had to deal with hacks at some point or another right??? Verge team will learn from this I'm sure and they will fix it in short order.
This issue was found 4 years ago. Someone should be going thru the libs that XVG uses and helping to sort this out; unfortunately someone has been going thru and looking to exploit.
it actually has nothing to do with libraries/dependencies verge uses. this issue was brought up in peercoin, but thought to not be a threat. many coins still have this issue in them.
Yes I have gone thru GH and found other coins with the
issue, as you correctly call it ,unlike those peercoin folks who dismissed it. However I did not find a coin of significance like XVG still using the code, that I could tell. This doesn't mean they aren't out there, of course.
To be clear, the issue was brought up in peercoin and it was thought to not be a threat by some, thought to be a threat by others, and it was never tested afaik. That you call it an issue confirms what I said above, people need to be checking this stuff; that other coins have this problem is unimportant, the vergefam's skin is in this game.