ARK Windows Wallet Compromised, Users Should take all Necessary Precautions

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A developer account of @ArkEcosystem was potentially compromised during the visit to Korea. The co-founder of ARK.io, Matt DC, just posted a tweet informing that a compromised version of the windows was loaded on the official Github in the last 24 hours.


The compromise version of the windows was reported by a user who downloaded the Windows wallet installer and found out that the downloaded file “did not match the checksum published on the GitHub releases page”.

After downloading the file again, the problem still persists. The installation also requested to install a new root certificate and found out that “something has been placed on the proxy server in the directory” %localappdata%\Microsoft\CLR_v2.0.
Checking further, he noticed that both versions of Windows have been uploaded a day earlier, while the uploads of Ubuntu, MacOS, and Linux are from last month.

The ARK team responded to the report shortly after affirming that the compromised version had been removed and suggested that users who downloaded it within the time frame to delete it.

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