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XRP Ledger’s Payment Engine Had a Counterfeiting Bug Hiding Since 2015

First reported Source: Decrypt AI + 1 moreLast editorial activity
Smartwatch user making a contactless payment at a café using a POS device.
Illustrative photo.Photo by SpotOn POS on Pexels

What happened

An integer overflow in the payment engine, dormant since 2015, could have let an attacker mint spendable XRP beyond the token’s total supply.

Sources & evidence

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