THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitpays accessible antecedent walletCopay appear Tuesday that they accept anchored a aegis blemish in Android phones active adaptation six codenamed Marshmallow Simultaneously accepted Bitcoin web and adaptable wallet GreenAddress has encountered the aforementioned botheration and is actively alive on a solution
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[Editor’s Note: Bitcoin.com had some inquiries from Blockstream/GreenAddress supporters and we appetite to analyze that while GreenAddress did accept a botheration with Android devices, the attributes of their botheration is altered from that of Copay, decidedly with attention to their alternative PIN rather than clandestine keys.]
Private Keys Kept in the Cloud at Risk
The basis of the botheration is in how Android’s ancestor company, 
Google, has been aggravating to aback up aggregate it can to Google Drive.
The latest adaptation of Android aloof included backups for a few added genitalia of its book system, accordingly including area Copay has called to abundance their encrypted clandestine keys.
Bitpay acclaimed that:
Even admitting Google encrypts all app backups, users’ clandestine keys are still backed up and stored in the cloud, authoritative those Bitcoin addresses beneath secure. Considering that Marshmallow has been about back October of aftermost year, it is hasty that this blemish was not noticed and addressed afore this week.
Android bitcoin wallet users of both Copay and GreenAddress noticed the botheration afresh and alerted their developers who accept formed out the fixes in abbreviate order.
Copay’s Solution
As anon as Bitpay abstruse about the issue, they put calm the 
new adaptation of Copay wallet, adaptation 2.4.2, to adjust the problem.
In the announcement, Bitpay acclaimed that “This change goes adjoin our aegis action and puts user clandestine keys at risk, so we acerb animate you to move your funds to a new Copay wallet.”
According to Bitpay:
Along with the announcement, the aggregation additionally gives instructions on how to download the adapted Copay app, actualize a new wallet, and again it urges Marshmallow users to alteration funds abroad from any old wallets into the new wallet aloof created, befitting all keys but alone autumn bitcoins in the new wallet. They additionally admonish users that application the billow to aback up clandestine keys artlessly defeats the purpose of their project.
“Remember that Copay is a accurate bitcoin wallet, so you accept abounding ascendancy of the funds and the albatross to accomplish your own advancement (rather than abetment up to the cloud),” Bitpay wrote.
GreenAddress’ Solution
On the aforementioned day, GreenAddress, which was afresh acquired by Blockstream, had the aforementioned botheration as Copay and is actively acclimation it. However, instead of clandestine keys actuality uploaded to the cloud, the abstracts backed up on Google Drive now is an encrypted PIN number:
A adjudicator of the GreenAddress Reddit lath confirmed the 
problem for GreenAddress, and provided the articulation to the Github fix, currently in advance at columnist time. The user additionally mentioned that the company’s ablaze adaptation of their adaptable wallet, Greenbits, was not afflicted by the botheration in the aboriginal place, claiming that “It was already disabled on GreenBits.”
The final band-aid to the botheration does not arise to accept been implemented yet at columnist time to their software. GreenAddress customers, therefore, should accumulate an eye out for the advancement it will alert their Android phones to make, or at atomic accumulate watch of the company’s announcements.
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