BlockBeats news, September 20: MultiversX (EGLD) has issued an official announcement stating that it has confirmed an attacker attempted to exploit a VM-level atomicity issue, and that this attempt resulted in invalid state changes on the network. The network is currently paused to prevent the incident from expanding further. The development team has prepared a fix and will verify it in a shadow fork environment. After successful testing, it will coordinate deployment to mainnet with validators, exchanges, and infrastructure partners.The official statement said that a targeted recovery plan is currently being evaluated to preserve confirmed transaction history and normal user state while handling only the invalid state changes related to this incident. Users do not need to take any action. Before the official recovery notice is issued, please do not submit or rebroadcast transactions, and do not deposit or withdraw EGLD and ESDT assets through trading platforms or cross-chain bridges. After the incident is resolved and the investigation findings are confirmed, MultiversX will publish a full technical report.
