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Electrum Patches Critical Lightning Bug in Wallet Update 4.8.2

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  • Electrum released version 4.8.2 to fix a critical backup vulnerability affecting select Lightning wallets using non-deterministic keys.
  • The update hardens codebase security, improves key validation, and requires affected users to generate new backups to safeguard their funds.
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