Can MyEtherWallet be hacked? - page 4.

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

It can't be hacked quickly, but remember there is a lot of possibilities.

The total amounts of the alphabet are 26 + 9 numbers. That means 35 characters to be try. Ethereum private key built from 64 characters. That means if there are 2240 possibilities.

But that not means if you can change it easily.

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Well if your visiting on some much more alike domain of myetherwallet there's a possibility that your wallet will get hacked because when the time you input your private key that's the time you will get hacked. Better to use metamask for better security

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Yes! If you mean their website then it's definately can be hacked. How? Hacker must get access to myetherwallet.com domain and he must change the name servers to his host. After this he can replace the original MEW website to his replica website which can scrape users data to his database.

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everyone must be worried about his own wallet, plus this is a digital world that must be very many people who are smart to break into. but I always use myetherwallet which of course very many people use it. and as long as I use myetherwallet, I never feel lost.

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Quote from: candy69 on February 14, 2018, 08:00:03 AM

I don't think that It can be hacked. Just keep your private key safe. At present, it is one of the best and secure online wallet for Ethereum and ERC20 tokens.

Keep your private keys is high secure place! Their website can be hacked with dns so always check site with cryptonite.

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all sites can be attack of hackers, even the most secure sites that has more security system/protocol can be, but it take too long and they need to have more hackers to start a hacking, but MEW private key cannot be crack in just a minute or hours, even a super computer cannot do that. its take you more than 20 years or more before you can crack a single MEW wallet. so how do hackers can hack you? unless you are a careless persons who accidentally paste your private key some where or got phished.

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Quote from: LogitechMouse on February 14, 2018, 08:03:19 AM

Myetherwallet is a website so there is a possibility that it can be hacked but the question is "HOW?". You can't easily put some characters there and guess the private key of a certain user of MEW. For me, MEW is one of the safest wallets at this moment and I am convenient using it. Just be careful of the phishing sites that you are browsing. Make sure that the website is the real website and not the fake one.

My account on MyEtherwallet was compromised due to my negligence and it will be a lesson learned forever in my Crypto life. I was a victim of a phishing site where I clicked a link in my email supposedly coming from Myetherwallet.com but alas, it was a phishing site. Lets all be careful guys. As an added security, try to install a firewall such as zone alarm and update your Anti virus regularly. It will help you give a little peace of mind.

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Myetherwallet is a website so there is a possibility that it can be hacked but the question is "HOW?". You can't easily put some characters there and guess the private key of a certain user of MEW. For me, MEW is one of the safest wallets at this moment and I am convenient using it. Just be careful of the phishing sites that you are browsing. Make sure that the website is the real website and not the fake one.

candy69

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I don't think that It can be hacked. Just keep your private key safe. At present, it is one of the best and secure online wallet for Ethereum and ERC20 tokens.

VenturaBro

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Maybe not through traditional means (e.g. through MEW) but your personal wallet can be hacked through phishers / keyloggers and so on. So, you're the one in responsible of keeping your wallet safe from being hacked.

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Myetherwallet is an avenue to access the etherum blockchain. So, you have your private keys , so, its good

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Quote from: kom1231 on February 14, 2018, 05:24:07 AM

It's impossible to hack and without 2fa unless of course you leave your privat key anywhere

While I agree that doesn't mean you shouldn't take basic security precautions. E.g. 2fa, not leaving your computer unattended, not visiting suspicious sites, etc.

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

You are absolutely right, even the party from MEW has stated that you should be responsible for your own wallet.
They can not help when you lose your wallet, but if you have a little money you should buy an offline wallet so you feel the peace.
MEW already supports with offline wallet. Depending on how you keep your MEW wallet secrets as well, if anyone knows your privatekey then your wallet will not survive.

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It's impossible to hack and without 2fa unless of course you leave your privat key anywhere

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

It can be hacked but not in that way because it is very hard to guess the combinations of all 64 characters of the private keys. Maybe you could guess the exact keys but after of many years of vigorously matching it but that if you have the determination to start it one by one of matching it now. In addition, if you really want to insist your findings then it can be apply to all private keys not to MEW alone.

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

I had exactly the same thoughts when I came to the crypto. I guess you already get the answer. I just want to say that MEW is not tied with your question at all. It's only about ETH network math. MEW is just an interface to get your wallet under control.

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I don't think before to replace our private key and get access to other wallet. It's the great information i think. But, thought it can be, I don't think some one can predict our private key with exactly to take over our wallet and get our token because there have so many combination they must try to get some token. I think it's must be hard and need so muct time to try the combinations and they not will be can filter it for an wallet. But, I think that must be a great hole at etherum wallet.

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

As you put it, once you change some characters of Mew private key, you will get to another wallet.
So you have to get all the characters right to get into your wallet. You can calculate the odds yourself.

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Quote from: s2break on February 12, 2018, 03:43:24 PM

Hi guys!
I’ll tell you what I think.
I'm feeling anxious about MEW security.
If we change some characters of Mew prative key, we will get to anather wallet.
Exampe:
Prative key wallet 1: a1e57f1422ae77c1c51f1626d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

Prative key wallet 2: a1e57f1422de77c1c51f1623d6cbd6ad376f184976a0e83b430ed7e8c66e998d

After i change characters on wallet 1 a = d & 6 = 3, i get wallet 2.

Question is, can MEW be hacked easily? This can be dangerous for investors.
And why MyEtherWallet not connect to 2FA? This is a good measure to protect our wallet.
Guys, What do you think about this?

extremely impossible to hack. one thing is that this is decentralized application. private key with us. other thing is based on your calculations, who will calculate like this. no body. i am using myetherwallet for long time. nothing happened still

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Private keys is high secure solution, if this not be so, myetherwallet use combination of adres + key to acces the wallet

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