1inch: Severe vulnerability in Ethereum vanity address tool risks millions of dollars

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch claimed to have discovered a severe vulnerability in Ethereum vanity address generating tool Profanity. This has the potential to put millions of dollars in user money at risk.

In its report, 1inch explained that the private keys to addresses generated on Profanity could be calculated using brute force attacks. It claimed the vulnerability may have allowed hackers to “secretly” siphon millions of dollars from Profanity users’ wallets for years.