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No, they can't, except a cyber attack recently. They lost because they filled up their Private Key despite Address. If any airdrop requires your PK, just stay away. And use MetaMask for your security.

That is impossible I think. Nobody can hack you through your public address, which you are submitting for doing airdrops. But if you won't be careful and put your private key somewhere in, then yes, it is possible that they can still your coins and they probably will. Do not enter your private key anywhere.

I think by following airdrop will not make myetherwallet hacked if you are careful, especially do not give away your private key. As long as your private key is secure, I think your wallet is also safe. You can increase security by importing your myetherwalet into metamasks.

Basically if you do not lose your private key you will never be hacked Mew, but there are fake airdrop addresses mew to trick users. be careful

Most airdrops has phishing links that can cause you confusion when you click them. Thus please be careful when doing airdrop bounty to avoid disaster. Please don't enter your private key thinking it is public address. Thanks

nowadays guys are very terrible because they can do undo with your wallet, now the most painful thing is that they will send you a link called tap-trap-link which will automatically hack you or from mails, so what i once hacked with emails so i don't do any airdrops sent from my mails.  

They can do that because the form link of airdrop can be phising link that will harm your device and attack that device by malware. Becarefull when join airdrop, just make sure the airdrop is legit from trusted and good project.

You should be more careful in joining airdrop and also you need to read it carefully what was the form need to fillup. maybe instead of eth adress they put Private key.  and as we know private key is need to open my ether wallet. There are some people lost their tokens because of negligences. Its safe to join airdrop as long as you dont need to give your private key and if they needed email address its okay., But if its cyber attack maybe mew can be hacked.

In most cases, the reason of account being hack is due to our own negligence. Mostly airdrops are asking our email add which could lead also into hacking. It is better not to engage more on airdrops to have a safe keep on our accounts.

Good topics. First we always remember there are a lot of scam airdrop so we must be wisely if we are joining airdrop, avoid to join any airdrop that are required to put your private key on their sites because those airdrop are scam, and many scammers here based on what I heard that use airdrop sites to collect more information about someone to hack any personal information about someone even our MEW, so we need to be careful.

With MetaMask, it's generally safe as long as you don't reveal your private key.

airdrop will not cause our wallet to be hacked, if we do not give private key to anyone. they may be exposed to hack because they carelessly provide their personal data or it could also be a victim of phishing attacks.

No. It is impossible to airdrop attack your eth wallet address. If that was possible Eth would be worthless!

What happens is the airdrop might give you a phishing link that brings you to a fake MEW.
Never enter your private key into any forms, links or websites unless your 100% confident its safe.
Even then, there are better options than using your PK to access your wallet.
- try Eidoo wallet. Thats what I use and I personally dont even know my PK.

Nope. Airdrop won't hack your myetherwallet as long as you're not entering your private keys on their form. Just be careful when joining airdrops because some of them are just phishing.

As said, there's no way any 'airdrop' can 'hack' 'myetherwallet' (alot of ' because it's not giving the full clue about what it is  8))

Anyone can send tokens/ETH to your wallet, with or without your consent.
You can't in any way possible lose your tokens/ETH by receiving tokens.
If you're filling in your private key in some suspicious site, then that's why you/people lose their stuff when joining an airdrop.
There is rarely reason to enter your private key anywhere.

MyEtherWallet is only an interface that makes it much easier to 'talk' with the Ethereum blockchain.
MyEtherWallet could be hacked in the terms of like a DNS hack that happened recently,
which I believe kinda redirects everyone who visits MyEtherWallet.com, to a fake site, that would then steal your private key.
MyEtherWallet could also be 'hacked' in terms of someone changing the code to save your key, I guess, why not?

So to summarize, you are just as safe using MyEtherWallet as you are using any other type of wallet which gives you the same access(private key access).
However, using MyEtherWallet and being an unexperienced internet user in terms of any safety aspect, is definitely more risky than using for example a Hardware Wallet,
or even an exchange with 2 factor authentication. I don't promote using exchanges at all, but it's safer as it kinda protects you against yourself.

MyEtherWallet gives you a Public Key, and a Private Key(maybe in form of an encrypted file, or another option).
Whenever you visit MyEtherWallet to login, you risk actually entering a phishing site.
Ensure that you always see the green lock icon in the top left, bookmark the url, and so on.

Your Private Key from MyEtherWallet however, isn't MyEtherWallet-specific, it's just a private key tied to a public key on the Ethereum blockchain.
You can use it in many other ways other than via MyEtherWallet.

Simply put, you can't lose your money unless you fail on your end, one way or another.

no it cant be. The only reasons its hacked cause someone get access to their private key. I dont think their hack the private key from addresses. yes i believe its phising site . One of my friend was hacked cause visiting wrong site and he lose preety much everything.

First of all, it's impossible.
Most of the time, people's tokens are stolen simply because they expose the private key or the smart contract of the token.

Now a day we can see countless fake airdrop, they not only collecting the information of participants but also they want to attack the MEW. In my opinion, I think the participants should aware scam airdrop, and should use the Metamask to more secure the MEW.

The possibilities of your wallet will be hack if you enter an phishing sites in which it will steal your credentials like passwords and private keys but most likely for the airdrop might steal your private keys is if you mistakenly input the private keys instead of your wallet address. I do not join airdrops because most of these are failed and will just waste your time.

Man this is very common in cryptoworld. Fake airdrops trying to scam people. Most of the legit airdrops just need your public address and email address and sometimes telegram username. But if an airdrop is asking for your private key. Then it's a no brainer scam

Yes, airdrop task can hack your MEW most specially if you fall from their trap giving them your private key.Theres no any kind of airdrop asking for private key so never ever give it.Its phishing kind of hacking by the way so be careful filling-up forms.

I think if you only fill up the form and enter only you public address, I guess your MEW is safe. Just don't give your private key or enter it on different website, your MEW will be safe. Just make sure to check the website before entering your PK, there are a lot of phishing sites now and also be careful on clicking links sent to you on your email. Just be careful on filling up forms you must only input your public address which starts on 0x always check it before you submit.

I do not know about it and I do not like airdrop because it's a small gift and a hard sell.

Do you give myetherwallet password in form filling? Or there may be a virus on the airdrop form.

i think may be they can because its depends in the apps because they can plan a program that can monitor what you are doing in your phone or devices where that apps installed, like keylogger ^_^... so be careful ^_^

someone will not be able to hack our wallets unless we give them the key,
so be careful in filling the water drop form if we do not want to be crushed by the unbeliever.

Only if the airdrop asking you for credentials data such as your ethereum address' private key, JSON, or else, other than that if they are asking for your email, they maybe got your wallet through luring you to fill in their phising website.
However, just always beware since airdrop generally created by random stranger who "obviously" always have intention, the token or coin that you may get from the airdrop always comes at price.

Its impossible unless you give them your private key.
Or u click to MEW through their airdrop form, it may be a phising site to take ur private key.

1. Never give your Ether wallet private key in any form fill out.
2. use Metamask google chrome wallet to avoid using fake sites. it helps to help us to find which site is fake or not.
3. Always check the link of Website is HTTPs:// in Green color ? Bookmark your wallet link safely. Never open any other website which is related to your website.

4. Some airdrop ask for your ether network private key (avoid filling such forums)
5. go for airdrops which ask for KYC documents. it helps us that company is trusted.
6. Never install any application on your dextop or laptop without proper verification.
7. Install Best Internet security antivirus which tell you which website contains virus.

The scam airdrop requires that you provide a private key that will retrieve your myetherwallet.
Other forms of hacking by mail or by your information.

Yes its posibble beacuse they sent fake mytherwallet website in your email.if you will login your private key in fake myetherwallet website there is possibilities that all of your token will be lost. To avoid this just check always the url before entering your private key.

The only reason they are losing their token when joined in the airdrop due to they are giving their privatekey to earn shit token just like airdrop. Sometimes there is a developer of airdrop that builds a wallet and remember the wallet can be affected by the malware to steal your password and privatekey and i suggest you never try to join in any airdrop.

No it is impossible to hack your wallet just with the ethereum address as even if you dont enter the address in form..many addresses can be found publicaly in etherescan and they can hack from there..so this is not possible...ya just beware that never share your private key with anyone no matter what..

It's impossible. This is likely some kind of hacker attacks, carelessness or inattention at the entrance to the user's purse lead to a loss of savings.

I think it's not an airdrop error, it looks like you mis-filled your address. I'm very sure you fill your mew address with private key when you join airdrop.

There are many reasons why people's mew got hacked like entering the pv keys in the address box of airdrop form, click on phising link that directing you to fake website and entering your pv keys there etc. Make sure to bookmark the mew real website, don't tell anyone your pv keys, and install good antivirus like malwarebytes etc.

I think there is no problem on the airdrops the problem I think is the leakage of the private key of the user, there are airdrop bots that are getting your private key, that is totally a scam and hack, you should never give your private key to anybody else except yourself.

my friend have the same cases.
he forgot about what he joined
after that.
all of ETH balance and token gone
but,my logic say it's cant be happened until they know your PK
any opinion about what the hell happening on this week?
i see the hacker address already hacked many many people.
btw,
this address i know.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x7f94174d560e4d86d4f3b2213a221f2c33b14015
https://etherscan.io/address/0x3463934897d356b8659cbdfe15209e3bc3229105

I think it's impossible that an airdrop campaign will going to hack your myetherwallet, first thing the airdrop only asks for your myetherwallet address and will also ask you some tasks including joining to their telegram account, following twitter and facebook account.

If the airdrop asks for your KYC or wallets private key then that airdrop is a scam. As a participant you should be responsible to take care of your account Including your private key. Maybe you put it on a website and it was saved there or you used it to a public computer and someone uses it.