1inch Security Disclosure Report: Certain Ethereum addresses created using a tool called Profanity have a serious vulnerability

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has released a security disclosure report claiming that certain Ethereum addresses created using a tool called Profanity have serious vulnerabilities. The flaw may have allowed hackers to secretly steal tens of millions of dollars from Profanity users' wallets over the past few years. 1inch believes that the address generation method of Profanity is insecure and that keys linked to public addresses can be calculated through brute force attacks. They recommend that users who generated addresses using Profanity transfer their assets to new wallets. Profanity, launched in 2017, is a tool that allows Ethereum users to generate "vanity addresses," which are customized wallets containing recognizable names or numbers. (The Block)