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&nbsp Cardano fell victim to an attack that split the network into two, but swift action from several engineering teams has resolved the issue. At press time, the bad actor behind the chain partition has been identified, with Charles Hoskinson threatening legal action as ADA trades below $0.5. A Network Partition Spooks Cardano Users According to on-chain data, the Cardano mainnet experienced a network partition event just a day after the preview testnet faced similar issues. The fork split the Cardano network into two distinct chains, with an incident report blaming the chain partition on a “malformed delegation transaction. Published by Intersect, the incident report noted that the malformed delegation transaction exploited a bug in an underlying software library from 2022. While previous ledger versions have masked the bug, Intersect’s analysts say the attacker used specialized tooling to trigger the bug. “The bug allowed an oversized hash in a malformed delegation transaction to pass initial validation checks when it should have been rejected,” read Intersect’s report. Aware of the divergence, engineering teams from the Cardano Foundation, Input Output, and Intersect collaborated to develop a hotfix for the issue. Within hours, SPOs and other node users were instructed to upgrade their nodes, increasing the weight of the healthy chain with the poisoned chain and its blocks rendered invalid. Advertisement

&nbsp Contrary to claims, the incident report noted that Cardano did not stall, and both divergent chains produced blocks throughout the incident. Meanwhile, several cryptocurrency and third-party service providers have paused deposits and withdrawals as a precautionary measure. A specialized working group is tasked to reconcile valid transactions from the poisoned chain into the main “healthy” chain. Suspect Identified Amid Threat Of Legal Action Intersect’s incident report disclosed that the team has identified the wallet responsible for the…

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