By Ryan W. Neal, ibtimes.com
Bitcoin is the latest digital entity to be added to a growing list of organizations compromised by the Heartbleed bug.
The Bitcoin Foundation said on Friday that the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the open source software that enables the use of the digital currency, used a version of OpenSSL, a cryptography library used to password-protect websites, apps, and Web servers, which was affected by Heartbleed.
“If you are using the Windows version of the Bitcoin Core [graphical user interface] without a wallet passphrase, it is possible that your wallet could be compromised by clicking on a bitcoin payment request link,” the Bitcoin Foundation said on its website. “It is possible [but unlikely] private keys could be sent to the attacker.”
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