Order book prices can be arbitrarily adjusted? White-hat hackers expose major vulnerabilities in Coinbase's advanced trading platform
Twitter user @Tree of Alpha reported a potential vulnerability in Coinbase's new advanced trading platform to the Coinbase team. As a result, Coinbase temporarily halted trading on the platform and promptly initiated repairs.
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Tree of Alpha's Record
According to a report by CoinDesk, this is not the first time Tree of Alpha has notified cryptocurrency-related companies of vulnerabilities in their programs. Last month, Tree of Alpha contacted CoinDesk regarding an issue with the CoinDesk website's content management system, as the vulnerability allowed interested parties to view CoinDesk article titles saved in the backend as drafts, thereby gaining access to non-public information for making advance trading decisions.
Tree of Alpha also previously tested Tesla's website and publicly disclosed on Twitter a day before Tesla's CEO Elon Musk officially announced on January 14th that Tesla products could be purchased with Dogecoin (DOGE), that they had discovered tests for Dogecoin payments on the website.
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