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Quote from: fourpiece on January 11, 2018, 05:58:22 AM

There are only two possibilities why your mew account got hacked its either you click a phishing site or somebody knows your private key but mostly eth wallets are hacked because of phishing link.

If anyone explains the measures you have said you will make your wallet safer but I many times noticed that bitcoin or ethereum looses by signing in to the fake phishing sites to loose the funds. There we need to check multiple time whether your URL is right or not.
That is the issue for the every person and some people only loosing the private key or steel by the family members. This is how private key issue people get the issue in loosing the funds.

fourpiece

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There are only two possibilities why your mew account got hacked its either you click a phishing site or somebody knows your private key but mostly eth wallets are hacked because of phishing link.

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As someone quite new to cryptos, was wondering how to access my tokens on MEW in light of the recent news of Keystore files being vulnerable. Even on MEW login now it says logging in with the keystore is not recommended. So how are we supposed to get to the coins?

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Quote from: Santri on January 10, 2018, 06:35:05 AM

I've also experienced the same thing with you three months ago and I lost some of my eth, it was indeed my fault for forgetting the private key

Not only forgetting the private key makes this issue to anyone. There are some fake sites contains with the same misspelled text which is similar like Myetherwallet site is here around while you doing Google search about.
Most of these kind site owners uses the Google adwords service and makes their site while anyone search about MEW or myetherwallet on the Google search. So be careful while you are logging in to the wallet you doing with the Google search.

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I've also experienced the same thing with you three months ago and I lost some of my eth, it was indeed my fault for forgetting the private key

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Quote from: Jaggedmountain on January 03, 2018, 05:38:41 PM

Quote from: Koadharber on January 03, 2018, 05:25:21 PM

Quote from: Jaggedmountain on January 03, 2018, 05:05:19 PM

Please can anybody help?!
This is my first time here and new to the Crypto world.
I created MEW last week following tutorials step by stepI managed to send ether from gdax and tokens from binance to the same address, afterwards I unlock checked that the tokens arrived and all seamed in order. Today when I try to unlock MEW the address that opens is a completely different one with no tokens in it!! i've visited etherscan and introduced the original address and the ether and tokens are there but I cannot have access to it via MEW. Can you or any of you HELP please!!! THanks in advance.

Possible thing that do happen on here is that you might able to input a wrong privatekey since you do said that it shows another address which means theres something wrong on the key you have inputted on the mew site. Make it sure that you do copy paste it well so that you would able to access that eth wallet address again.If not then those coins are considered lost.

Thanks a lot for your fast reply Koadharber, I didn't sign in with my private key but with Mnemonic phrase which i have hard copied, the list of addresses that provides are not the one that I used originally to transfer the coins. How it comes that it doesn't retrieve the same address? Huh

I get that you think its a typo error from my part but I have tried hundreds of times, I'm going insane...

On MEW you get access with private key. What kind of Mnemonic phrase do you use? O_o
I think you messed things up. If you want just check balance, put in your address - public key.

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Quote from: Koadharber on January 03, 2018, 05:25:21 PM

Quote from: Jaggedmountain on January 03, 2018, 05:05:19 PM

Please can anybody help?!
This is my first time here and new to the Crypto world.
I created MEW last week following tutorials step by stepI managed to send ether from gdax and tokens from binance to the same address, afterwards I unlock checked that the tokens arrived and all seamed in order. Today when I try to unlock MEW the address that opens is a completely different one with no tokens in it!! i've visited etherscan and introduced the original address and the ether and tokens are there but I cannot have access to it via MEW. Can you or any of you HELP please!!! THanks in advance.

Possible thing that do happen on here is that you might able to input a wrong privatekey since you do said that it shows another address which means theres something wrong on the key you have inputted on the mew site. Make it sure that you do copy paste it well so that you would able to access that eth wallet address again.If not then those coins are considered lost.

Thanks a lot for your fast reply Koadharber, I didn't sign in with my private key but with Mnemonic phrase which i have hard copied, the list of addresses that provides are not the one that I used originally to transfer the coins. How it comes that it doesn't retrieve the same address? Huh

I get that you think its a typo error from my part but I have tried hundreds of times, I'm going insane...

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Quote from: Jaggedmountain on January 03, 2018, 05:05:19 PM

Please can anybody help?!
This is my first time here and new to the Crypto world.
I created MEW last week following tutorials step by stepI managed to send ether from gdax and tokens from binance to the same address, afterwards I unlock checked that the tokens arrived and all seamed in order. Today when I try to unlock MEW the address that opens is a completely different one with no tokens in it!! i've visited etherscan and introduced the original address and the ether and tokens are there but I cannot have access to it via MEW. Can you or any of you HELP please!!! THanks in advance.

Possible thing that do happen on here is that you might able to input a wrong privatekey since you do said that it shows another address which means theres something wrong on the key you have inputted on the mew site. Make it sure that you do copy paste it well so that you would able to access that eth wallet address again.If not then those coins are considered lost.

Jaggedmountain

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Please can anybody help?!
This is my first time here and new to the Crypto world.
I created MEW last week following tutorials step by stepI managed to send ether from gdax and tokens from binance to the same address, afterwards I unlock checked that the tokens arrived and all seamed in order. Today when I try to unlock MEW the address that opens is a completely different one with no tokens in it!! i've visited etherscan and introduced the original address and the ether and tokens are there but I cannot have access to it via MEW. Can any of you HELP please!!! THanks in advance.

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A lot of hacker right now. using duplicate myetherwallet. if you open it ang put your private automatic that they get your private key and can open ang get your token and balance. better to do is to book mark the myetherwallet and always keep your private key. better to write or print your keys to be save

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Sounds like maybe a malicious link might has been spread to kick users?

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Quote from: KluFf on October 27, 2017, 10:07:19 PM

No. Don't blame MyEtherWallet.
because MyEtherWallet always Warns you about to check the Spelling of the Website/Link/address
before inputing your private keys.
maybe you just accessed your private keys on a phishing Mew site.
it will really hack you..
always bookmark MyEtherWallet because you cannot Trust Google search Engine.
sometimes they give wrong Spelling MEW site..

Their "warnings" are more recent, and were not in place when I got hacked.

I still believe that ever using a Private Key to log in to anything online is very dangerous, and MyEtherWallet should know this. A Private Key is just that, private.

I continue to avoid Ether and ICO's. I believe everyone else should too.

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Quote from: leea-1334 on October 24, 2017, 12:51:46 PM

Even though I am not a fan of Ethereum at all, we should not avoid ETH just because a lot of scams happen on it. That is like avoiding Bitcoin or fiat because drug dealers and child pornography use them as payment. The reason so many scams happen on ETH is just that it is so easy to create an ERC20 token. You have people now just selling services, to create a token, whitepaper, logo, signatures and all that in a week.

I had to reread the post one time to try to get it right, do you mean that now people are selling the equivalent of fake documents so scammers can create a fake project? Because if that is the case that is very serious issue, that means that hackers can create a fake website and create all that fake information just to lure in some unsuspecting investors, the imagination of scammers never ceases to amaze me.

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Quote from: KluFf on October 27, 2017, 10:07:19 PM

No. Don't blame MyEtherWallet.
because MyEtherWallet always Warns you about to check the Spelling of the Website/Link/address
before inputing your private keys.
maybe you just accessed your private keys on a phishing Mew site.
it will really hack you..
always bookmark MyEtherWallet because you cannot Trust Google search Engine.
sometimes they give wrong Spelling MEW site..

You are right pal. With the thousand users of MEW everywhere, only a few like you complaining that it's site is hacked. For me, it's security is more than enough. If you have lost your tokens, it's your fault and don't blame the site because it hasn't done anything related to hacking.

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No. Don't blame MyEtherWallet.
because MyEtherWallet always Warns you about to check the Spelling of the Website/Link/address
before inputing your private keys.
maybe you just accessed your private keys on a phishing Mew site.
it will really hack you..
always bookmark MyEtherWallet because you cannot Trust Google search Engine.
sometimes they give wrong Spelling MEW site..

The_Dark_Knight

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Quote from: Trofo on October 23, 2017, 11:11:53 AM

I am using MyEtherWallet for some time now and I believe that for normal uses and purposes they are practically completely safe. To the best of my knowledge all the cases of missing funds from MEW wallets has been due to user error. I know it sounds harsh but I consider all successful phishing attacks as user errors.

That being said next time I check my wallet I will probably find it empty :=)

Few tips which cannot hurt:
1. Private keys are private. Don't share them ever!!!
2. Use at least 2 wallets. One for access to airdrops and day trading and the other as cold storage.
3. Please don't use PC with cracked versions of windows or other software for wallet creation. Use some well known and tested linux distribution or original clean installation of windows.

All of those are good points but in my opinion the third point is the one I cannot understand, why people keep using windows to store their bitcoin? Even if you had a legitimate copy of windows you are going to get hacked eventually especially if you have a good number of coins, install Linux and install a wallet there, you do not have to use it as your main OS, just store and access your tokens from there and you are going to be a lot more protected than any windows user could ever hope to be.

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I think you don't login in any website ico that ask your private,I strongly believe that is phising and scam

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Quote from: PANK21 on October 25, 2017, 06:59:04 PM

If your etherwallet is hacked , well you must create a new wallet and send all your remaining tokens in your new wallet as soon as possible because if you dont the hacker will definite drain all your tokens and all your effort will be wasted. You must very aware of phising site because that is one of the things why our etherwallet is hacked.

This is nice example of what I call a shitpost.
Not only it doesn't make sense, if his wallet has been hacked and all funds drained obviously he can't send any remaining tokens because there are no tokens left to send Roll Eyes

millerfilm

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Quote from: PANK21 on October 25, 2017, 06:59:04 PM

If your etherwallet is hacked , well you must create a new wallet and send all your remaining tokens in your new wallet as soon as possible because if you dont the hacker will definite drain all your tokens and all your effort will be wasted. You must very aware of phising site because that is one of the things why our etherwallet is hacked.

Well, they took everything except 1.6-something BRAT tokens. Once they have hacked it, you either aren't going to know it before it's too late, or it's simply going to be too late.

Putting your coins and tokens in a Hardware Wallet is the best way to go. Especially when it's MyEtherWallet and they don't want to use a reliable security device like Google Authenticator.

millerfilm

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Quote from: maeusi on October 23, 2017, 02:27:44 PM

Many pishing sites, especially myetherwallet are built up on spelling mistakes (f.e. missing letters). Saw one, that I need to read three times, before I recognized the mistake.

The ACTUAL http://www.myetherwallet.com has its specific security tag in the address bar. Here, in the United States, it is: MYETHERWALLET LLC [US].

Make sure you have a secured website, and make sure that the security tag is correct before proceeding. This follows for any site where you are going to enter important information.

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