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BREAKING_ Hackers Are Draining Compromised Metamask Wallets

Some users have been reporting their peculiar hack incidents which seem to have spiked since yesterday through MetaMask Wallets.<br>

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BREAKING_ Hackers Are Draining Compromised Metamask Wallets

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  1. BREAKING: Hackers are draining compromised Metamask Wallets Some users have been reporting their peculiar hack incidents which seem to have spiked since yesterday through MetaMask Wallets. It appears hackers are presently targetting and draining compromised Metamask ​wallets in an ongoing attack just a day after UNI airdrop. Some users have been reporting their peculiar hack incidents which seem to have spiked since yesterday. However, as this is a developing story, it’s unclear if this a coordinated and sophisticated group. Julien Bouteloup, an Ethereum enthusiast who constantly tweets about DeFi raised an alarm. Someone else within the thread responded also posting ​transaction link to corroborate his claims.

  2. They got me too. Drained over 1,000 UNI about an hour after I finished my last transaction. While Metamask is yet to give any official statement on the issue, Bouteloup advises wallet users to use a hardware wallet when connecting to it. Please don’t use ​@metamask_io without ​@Ledger​. Remove your fund ASAP if you can’t play with money you can’t afford to lose. A hacker is currently draining compromised wallets. One of those whom hackers drained compromised Metamask wallet in June mentioned that it might not necessarily be a root problem from the wallet company. According to one of her ​tweets​, she had mistakenly posted her mnemonic phrase in a Github. Some hacker incidents of compromised Metamask wallets did not stem from flaws in the code of the wallet. I accidentally pushed my mnemonic phrase up to GitHub a few months ago. I deleted it immediately, and I thought it was a private repo but I can’t remember now. But that’s the only way I can think of that someone got access to it Also, another user to corroborate that hackers targeting compromised Metamask wallets since the UNI airdrop posted proof. He posted the transaction link​ showing he lost around $40,000 to hackers and also said: Read More: https://cryptodose.co/breaking-hackers-are-draining-compromised-metama sk-wallets/ Follow Cryptodose for all ​updates​.

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