Litecoin’s MWEB Bug Let An Attacker Create 85,034 LTC
Litecoin builders have disclosed {that a} important validation flaw within the community’s Mimblewimble Extension Block implementation allowed an attacker to create an inflated pegout of 85,034.47285734 LTC in March 2026, earlier than a coordinated emergency response recovered the funds and neutralized the accounting imbalance. The incident, detailed in a postmortem revealed by Litecoin developer David…
