[3] BrowseAloud has been used in the United Kingdom by local councils,[4] and parts of the National Health Service.
[7] This required vision and motor skills to use, making BrowseAloud inaccessible to groups that could use other screen readers, such as JAWS.
[2] Although Coinhive—which generates Monero, a form of cryptocurrency—has legitimate uses,[12] the insertion of it in the manner in the attack was described as "malicious" by The Register's Editor in Chief Chris Williams;[2] and as "malware" by Taylor Hatmaker, in TechCrunch.
[13] The BrowseAloud service was disabled by Texthelp, to allow their engineers to investigate the security breach and remove the malicious code.
[13] Both Helme and the NCSC recommended that website developers use subresource integrity as a defence against such attacks.