{"id":198703,"date":"2021-09-09T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=198703"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:45:29","slug":"el-salvadors-chivo-bitcoin-wallet-allegedly-has-privacy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/el-salvadors-chivo-bitcoin-wallet-allegedly-has-privacy-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador&#8217;s &#8216;Chivo&#8217; Bitcoin (BTC) wallet allegedly has privacy issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">El Salvador's proprietary &#8216;Chivo' Bitcoin wallet officially launched earlier this week, but users have already been struggling with bugs within the app's interface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And while most bugs users reported were minor errors when sending Lightning payments, a significant privacy issue was revealed within the app's code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Matt Ahlborg, the head of research at BitRefill, pointed out that the lightning invoices generated by Chivo contained the full legal name of the creator of the invoice. This posed a serious threat to the safety of other personal data stored within the app and alarmed many of the wallet's users on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The lightning invoices generated by Chivo contain the full legal name of the creator of the invoice. This to me seems like a privacy issue that should be dealt with. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3z39s7NoCO\">pic.twitter.com\/3z39s7NoCO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Ahlborg (@MattAhlborg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattAhlborg\/status\/1435350678814302211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Chivo's development team quickly resolves potentially harmful privacy issue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, the potentially harmful privacy issue seems to have been resolved in less than 24 hours after being reported on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Ahlborg, accessing the app's core code no longer shows the issue and appears to be fixed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday I tweeted about a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChivoWallet?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChivoWallet<\/a> privacy issue where the users&#39; full legal name was being leaked in the LN invoice metadata. It appears to be fixed, and what&#39;s in its place is &quot;Thanks Matt Ahlborg&quot;, which I guess is to show that they saw my tweet.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TF0zOy3aYS\">https:\/\/t.co\/TF0zOy3aYS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06AeDTQrPD\">pic.twitter.com\/06AeDTQrPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Ahlborg (@MattAhlborg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattAhlborg\/status\/1435752678282481666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For invoices sent over the Lightning network the &#8216;Chivo' app now shows the time of the transaction and a message saying &#8220;Thanks Matt Ahlborg.&#8221; This was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattAhlborg\/status\/1435775202948960257\">confirmed<\/a> by dozens of other Twitter users, all of whom reached out to Ahlborg saying the message was features in their receipts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ahlborg believes this was a way for the wallet's development team to acknowledge the issue and show that they have promptly resolved it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And while many believe this shows El Salvador's dedication to providing the best payment infrastructure possible, locals have been reporting serious setbacks when using Chivo. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/business\/2021\/09\/08\/glitches-still-plague-bitcoin-rollout-in-el-salvador\/\">report<\/a> from Local10, Chivo servers have been collapsing since the wallet's launch as more than a million people tried to download the app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele addressed the issue on Twitter, calling on citizens to &#8220;take it slow&#8221; as the country was releasing the app in parts so as to avoid saturating the servers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Vamos a ir despacio.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GooglePlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GooglePlay<\/a> es la tienda m\u00e1s usada en El Salvador, por lo que la abriremos por partes y as\u00ed no saturar los servidores.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chivowallet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chivowallet<\/a> ya est\u00e1 disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GooglePlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GooglePlay<\/a>, pero \u00fanicamente para todas las versiones del Samsung Galaxy S20 y del Samsung Galaxy S21.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nayib Bukele ?? (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1435440534500384772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Many also experienced issues when trying to spend the $30 government bonus, while hundreds of people reported issues with the Chivo ATMs when trying to exchange dollars for BTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador&#8217;s proprietary &#8216;Chivo&#8217; Bitcoin wallet officially launched earlier this week, but users have already been struggling with bugs within the app&#8217;s interface. And while most bugs users reported were minor errors when sending Lightning payments, a significant privacy issue was revealed within the app&#8217;s code. 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