{"id":31741,"date":"2020-11-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31741"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:12:01","slug":"iota-developers-restore-network-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/iota-developers-restore-network-after-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"IOTA developers restore network after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IOTA blockchain project&#8217;s team has restarted the network after the outage that occurred on Thursday, 12 November. Users need to update to the latest version of the software, <a href=\"https:\/\/status.iota.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">as stated<\/a> on the service status page.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the developers said that the issue was related to the Compass network coordinator\u2014the mechanism stopped issuing checkpoints. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thetangle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Tangle<\/a>, the first checkpoint was set roughly 17 hours after the outage.<\/p>\n<p>In February, IOTA developers halted asset transfers in the system and the operation of the coordinator after a hacker attack on 50 Trinity desktop wallet accounts. The damage was estimated at 8.55 million IOTA tokens ($2 million). The network was back online a month after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the project, David Sonstebo, promised to compensate users&#8217; losses from his own funds.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IOTA blockchain project&#8217;s team restarted the network after the outage on Thursday, November 12. Users should update to the latest software version, according to the service status page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1893],"class_list":["post-31741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-iota"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31742,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions\/31742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}