It affects each and every coin which can not scale, thats the gist of it.
Any low marketcap coin can be used all others play "Russian roulette" without a fix. Who likes to gable away his (cough) investment.
Not my tool, or code.
Devs need to find a fix without it is lights out.
Issue at hand, the biggest achievement for David Schwartz (aka JoelKatz) to date is loosing the beginning of the XRP database for which he was generously rewarded 1 Billion XRP. Does he have the technical know how to fix it, no. The only option for him is to find some competed devs who put a band aid on and call it a fix.
Ripple can scale more than most cryptocoins, the nodes that validate are maybe less than 50. Also, it might be more effective and simpler to do an attack through denial of service attacks if some on those 50 are vulnerable.