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teeshe

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Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

This thread is actually a reminder for me of the security flaws of My Ether Wallet. It is no longer new that a safer place to keep our digital assets is the use of an hardware wallet. I am yet to hear about any security breach on an hardware wallet.
Stay safe friends, Crypto is still a jungle until things mature in this space.

Thesaintplague

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https://www.jacs.tech/

Quote from: Xelpherpolis on April 25, 2018, 02:47:01 PM

Their official Twitter account says:

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It seeds that everything is now back to normal, BUT PLEASE STAY SAFE and read/share this guide: https://myetherwallet.github.io/knowledge-base/security/myetherwallet-protips-how-not-to-get-scammed-during-ico.html

I recommend reading this article.

Yes, before you fully use this wallet, it is better to read first this article, which is written in great detail about how to protect your funds on the wallet. At the moment, the issue of personal cybersecurity is very important and necessary.

cryptolord2077

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The community needs to gather as much information as possible about hacking MEW. The more we know about the methods that hackers use the easier it will be for us to resist them.

jinnyjinny

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Fortunately, I rarely use the private key to access the ETH wallet. and also I created about 10 different MEW wallets and place crypto assets among them. To access the exchange, I use the IDEX Keystore File and password, for some reason it seems to me that this is a more secure method, but I'm not sure. At least for 2 years I have never been hacked.

Klintiv

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https://www.soar.earth/

storage on wallets or on the stock exchange has a risk and if a hacker wants to hack your wallet, nothing will stop it. therefore, we ourselves should be insured and not go to different questionable sites.

masterrex

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Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

I'm just being distracted about this news. my question is how could this happen? is that possible to hack the ERC20-wallet like MEW for me its superb in terms of security protocol but in other side. I believe that this is not a Hacking but and ordinary incident of Phishing and its only a lapses of the users part and not on MEW.

armack18

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Hacks are so useful for people who work with this platform so close and MEW is a really good one for work with money with the safe way and reliable transactions.

ungongbuotan

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Personally I don't store my assets in any online wallets. I use hard wallets for my savings. I only use online wallets for trading and other stuffs. But throughout my usage of mew I haven't had any issues at all, no hacks or lost funds at all. That is wjy it is advisable to always buy a hard wallet if you plan to store your coins for a long time.

crypthomonkey

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Quote from: kritiana008 on September 03, 2018, 03:25:01 AM

Hacks are so usual thing now and it is not so happy because people lose so much money. As for me I like MEW and I have never had problems with it including hacks. I suppose that it depends on the person and his moves with money and private information as well.

of course peopel are not happy i think that we shiuld be careful when choosing a wallet though inhave nothing against myetherwallet

crypthomonkey

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Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

i am so sorry for this i hope that younwill cope with this awful sotuation as soon as possible such things should not happen

kritiana008

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Hacks are so usual thing now and it is not so happy because people lose so much money. As for me I like MEW and I have never had problems with it including hacks. I suppose that it depends on the person and his moves with money and private information as well.

Ruby_Official

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Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

That's why people are looking for cold wallet. In Ruby-X users can select the rate of cold wallet use 70% to 100%!
You can get Ruby-X token, RBY as $0.28 which will be $0.5 when the official service launches. Check our official website thanks!

xbudahx

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MEW can t be hacked, your private keys has been stolen, how hacker did it you need to find out. Keep private keys on paper or a USB flash drive and always check the certificate of the payment system site.

xOdiumNostrumx

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Nope, fortunately I successfully avoided stepping on a mine called hack/phish so far (the one that would result in lost funds), but once as a novice I got phished as a result of a Slack admin hack where perpetrator pasted a link to a scam MEW page, but I have identified my mistake a minute later and successfully transferred all of my funds to the new ETH address so no damage has been done.

ucb96

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Fortunately not. Its very bad situation that everyone has to face on cryptocurrency. I think that the best solution is of course using it offline.

prukerohen

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That is really bad. I wonder what sense of humanity has left some persons that they have to go about hacking people's account and stealing off their coins or tokens. Sorry about your loss. You should get your account protected, so this doesn't repeat itself again. Get a hardward wallet if need be, and be more careful what you allow on your browser.

VanDeinsberg12

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Quote from: lang shao on August 31, 2018, 01:29:52 AM

Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

Just be more careful when you want to open your wallet. always check the web address correctly and I recommend using metamask instead of private key when you want to see or send your token.

This case has already solved and i suggest you to not try to bump any old thread. Mycrypto has offline desktop wallet and it can be an alternative to the metamask because somwtimes it has a problem with the connection to be connected to the network.

jakezyrus00

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It seems to me that the good security of myetherwallet and the goof reputation of this myetherwallet already been infiltrated by some hackers. Some news I heard today is that they already been hacked and all their holdings got stole.

lang shao

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Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

Just be more careful when you want to open your wallet. always check the web address correctly and I recommend using metamask instead of private key when you want to see or send your token.

Yaunfitda

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Quote from: lumeire on April 25, 2018, 12:27:20 PM

Quote from: aardvark15 on April 25, 2018, 12:18:40 PM

It seems that someone has successfully hacked MyEtherWallet and has stolen some people’s tokens. Mine seem to be fine for now.

Has anyone lost any Etherium or tokens and does anyone know how the hack was perpetrated?

This is potentially a major security risk because we all know that keeping coins on an exchange is a high risk. Now using MyEtherWallet may also be risky.

It was related to MEW's DNS being highjacked. So if you used MEW during the time with that hacked DNS then you're screwed. Otherwise, you're fine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8ek86t/warning_myetherwalletcom_highjacked_on_google/

Not again, if my memory servers me right, MEW was attacked using the same exploit months ago isn't it?

I just checked my MEW thru etherscan and my tokens are still intact, but I wouldn't login to my account yet before everything is safe. Hackers really target crypto now more than ever, so be safe everyone because it looks like they are really one step ahead of us. Just be careful on clicking websites that might be a phishing site, or get a hardware wallet if you are holding a lot of tokens worth thousands of even millions USD.

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