The Manhattan Project Hack: Atomic Wallet’s Nemesis
Atomic Wallet, the prominent non-custodial wallet with over 5 million users, has reportedly been subjected to an explosive cyber-attack. Users took to Twitter with some reporting complete losses of their crypto portfolios. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
At the time of writing this article, speculation seems to be that the attack could be a supply chain hack. This would suggest that Atomic’s source code was tampered with on the server side with users unwittingly updating to or downloading the maliciously affected version.