Anonymous No More? Monero Exploit Reveals User Identities to Hackers
The researcher, Anthony Russell, says that he can actually locate Monero users through transaction broadcasts.
When users open up their Monero wallets, they connect to the peer-to-peer network, which allows users to then connect to individual wallets.
According to Russell, If the users of those wallets arent using TOR or I2P, you can easily determine their IPs.
One potential problem with this method is that it doesnt necessarily differentiate between server nodes and peers. However, Russell says that this can be overcome by doing a simple whois search............
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