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Since i joined the crypto world i didnt face any problem regrading wallets but i see that many people lose funds...somtimes the situation is normal like when somone share his private key or back up phrase in a scam website...but lets imagine that somone open a nwe wallet on trust and start using it without even keeping the phrase...is there a way to enter his wallet and make transactions without even having the back up phrase?

I didn't fully understand the question but to answer if a user can make a transaction even without a backup, yes of course as long as the wallet is currently logged in on that device. And besides, you can check your recovery phrase if you are currently logged on Trustwallet so even you don't take note of it, you can check it if you want to log your wallet to other devices but for security, it's a must to take note of it.

If there's something I didn't understand, you can clarify it to me.

The danger is possible if you share that information to unsafe sites, I have not had any problems on sites where I share wallet information, but many people have that's the problem. Stay vigilant and thoroughly check all sites where you share personal information.

There's no way to enter into the wallet when you didn't have any back up for your wallet. that being said that if you have been loosing the access to your wallet permanently when you have no seed phrase to access your wallet. This is the same like when you created a wallet but you have no access on your wallet.
It will be lost forever.

Sometimes there are smart contracts that when we have connected with a wallet address we can take something valuable in it, therefore do not carelessly connect your address with a new project whose quality is not yet clear.

Because some people are extremely careless with everything, even with something as important as their private keys, it is hard to believe but we can't rule out the fact it is a possibility, you never know where people store their keys or what kind of apps they have installed on their device that could result to a loss or a hack on their wallet, the probability that most hacked issues are because of negligence is much higher.

if he loses the private key and phrase, then it is very difficult or even no way to recover it, as far as I know. but what does that have to do with getting hacked? if you get hacked, even if you have a phrase or private key, the assets in your wallet will run out. however, I've experienced it because of a phishing site.

that's seems unbelievable based on scenario you mentioned,if you know HD wallet principle such mnemonic is used to generate the private key and if even the owner of the wallet doesn't have any idea whats his mnemonic is, then I doubt any hacker could just come up with some random made up words and access the wallet.
Some people might always trying to say that their wallets got hacked out of the blue without doing anything phishy but who knows the real scenario right?

Making transactions using the wallet only needs the password so yes you can make transactions. The only time that you need the seed phrase is when you want to recover the wallet.

But if someone says my wallet is hacked, I'm not sure I would believe it unless the funds are already gone. I may have to check the blockchain for maybe the wallet just got some issues that coins are not appearing on the wallet.

Possible, you have to understand that there are a lot of newbies in this ecosystem. They just think of creating a wallet, not backing their phrases, or writing it down and saving it online. If the later is the case, then obviously, they can be hack, hence they will lost the money in whatever wallet they have.

That's why there is a learning curve here, and I would say that it's better to experience this first hand, so that you will know what to do in the future. And we all know that there are a lot of ways that the hackers can steal from us specially if we are not very very careful.

to be honest, don't think there's any, the only way to sign a transaction is through using private key but there's always two sides in a story. big chance though, his phone might have security vulnerability, there's this rumour going around few weeks ago if i remember correctly that said there is vulnerability in apple's ipad that somehow allow some third party app to access the key stored in that device but i don't really get what's the vulnerability really is as it's just a rumour without concrete proof.

Very possible if the trust wallet was linked to a scam website that looks like uniswap or pancakeswap, private keys can only be lost if connect to fake websites or copied to mail that has no strong password, all in all it depends entirely on the user themselves

sounds fishy but could happen   :'(. when it comes to software like this we get so many exploits open for the hackers to explore and there is too many thing you need to take care of

but the fault is not in the blockchain or cryptocurrency itself certainly, a person could got their private key exposed because filling up some suspicious form and shout in the public that they didn't do nothing.
that's why in case like this you need more investigation otherwise you will never get the real things that happening behind the curtain. because if the hacker could get other people account so randomly like that why even use
all the complicated cryptographic process.

For me I don't ever think a wallet can be hacked, most especially trust wallet, damn their security is really strong and can't be bridged. The only way a scammer or hacker can get access to someone's wallet is if the owner of the wallets shares his private keys with the hacker that's the only way the hacker can get rid of their earnings or do what ever he wants with the account, but if it's the case of hacking through directly I don't believe that. The person must have misplaced his keys.

If you use a reputable and secure wallet app then no one can access your wallet and steal your coins unless he has the seed/private keys or the file wallet needed to recover it.
I've read many articles (mostly on reddit) from trust wallet's users complaining about their coins being stolen but in most of those cases it appears it's the user's fault. They either enter their credentials on phishing websites or save the wallet backup files non encrypted on online storage where hackers can easily get access to it.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Trust wallet is one of the most reliable wallets just make sure you have a backup of the seed saved in a safe place and always update the app to the latest version.

That's right, because connecting a wallet address with a new project that is not clear will be very risky to lose assets that are already in our wallet, so research is needed before we connect any wallet address with a new project at this time.

Yes sure, absolutely NOT!
How it can be possible access to a wallet without private keys? It's something impossible from the scratch.
if these informations are not saved, coins are lost (or "making the other coins worth slightly more ;) " quote SN)

About hacking wallets, there are also trojan able to change the address during copy/paste... it's not just a matter of losing or using in a wrong website, there is also the device with some risks...

If you happen to be that person with lost seed phrase - and you have active time on it- try sending what you have there into another wallet that you must have corrected the issue of seed phase on and safely kept.
Crypto-currency crime shouldn't. Also I like the way you asked your question, but if you own a wallet you think/suspected has been hacked, don't ask everyone especially those who trys solution with private questions detail. I don't know if you have been caught by a virus or hacked, but if you lose a seed phase, then there is heavy impossibilities you get it back.

The first thing that your gonna need to access your wallet is the seed phrase or private key to access your wallet act like a password to your wallet, no other way to access your wallet if you don't have the key.

Some people think that their wallet is hacked without the private key but most of the time what happened is the hacker gets access to your private key by doing phishing etc. and with that, the hacker will have access to your wallet. Unless the hacker has a phishing application or your device is already accessed by the hacker they could pretty much find a way to access your wallet at that point.

Still, I've been using trust wallet for a long time and doesn't experience any problem especially in security so I don't think you will have any problem as well as long as your device is safe and your careful.

Well, that is the reason why we should take care of our wallet seed phrase at all time and save it in a safe place and keep in mind never store them in your computer and it should be in a sheet of paper that can store offline. Because most crypto wallet has a private key that our responsibility is to protect them, not unless if this is a custodial wallet which is there is no private key, just a verifications email/phone, and the password.
However, Trustwallet is a trusted wallet for how many years, they had to build a good reputation and I don't think their developer and team will do stupidity that can ruin their reputation.

No one can enter your wallet without the private key and back up phrases, Trust Walt wallet is one of the best wallets I have used for years and I have not found any problems with it. You just have to save the private key and back up phrases on an external hard drive and do not open suspicious links via mail or on Telegram from strangers.

For me, we cannot rule out the possibility of hacking if the user is careless about keeping the information of his or her wallet. The hackers are very creative right now in way of determining seed phrases and passwords and appying social engineering tactics in order to pull any information about these person's information. I mean information is power right now and if you are not careful with the way you secure your information then you will be susceptible to hacking.

You have a different question on the title and the post itself, well backup phrase is very important so you should always have that in a safe place. Your wallet is safe as long as you protect it and you keep your keeps privately, never share it to anyone. Trust wallet is a great wallet, don’t waste your money so start saving your phrase now.

Being able to make transactions from your trust wallet and having the backup saved are two different things. You can make transactions if you are already logged in to the account after you created it but once you lose the device or somehow clear data from the app or anything like that happens, you cannot recover your wallet because you didn't save the backup code.

But it also means that since you never saved the backup code, no one else should be able to hack you because if you don't know the private code yourself, you cannot share it with anyone even if you are naive. The only way someone can make transactions is if they have access to the device from the wallet is already logged in.

You are right hackers have evolved with the technology but the problem OP has shared is weird and confusing. He says is it possible to make a new wallet within trust wallet and without saving the private key is it possible to log in? I don't think it is possible to login if you forgot to save the passphrase.

@OP You need to clear the question because the title is pointing towards a third person, it sounds like someone is making you believe they got hacked. While the thread content makes me feel like you are learning about the trust wallet operations and whether one should save the private key or not. If you are in the dilemma of whether to save the passphrase or not, please do it because you cannot recover your coins in case you lost access to the wallet.

Why would it get hacked if you are the only one who knows your backup seed phrases? I honestly do not believe in such claims that our Trust Wallet would get hacked unless you are dumb to give him your seed phrases or just getting misleaded in an unsafe website where it asks you to “recover” your Trust Wallet by asking your seed phrases. Just don’t fall for it. As long you have your seed phrases, you are good.

I guess you can trust him if he really can't re-access his account if he logs out of the device, but if the account is still there he can back up the wallet password at any time, and is only asked to enter the password that was set the first time the wallet was created.

No, of course not. There is no way anybody could just access your wallet like that. Don't ever believe to people saying your trust wallet is hacked. Just make sure that you didn't share your seed phrase to anybody.

But I'm wondering why you didn't keep the phrase with you. It's actually all that you need to make sure you really have your coins with you whatever happens.

If you happen to create a new wallet next time and decide to save the seed phrase, the best way to save it is somewhere you do not connect online.

when making transactions I think there is no need to use a spare phrase. because the backup phrase is just to make a backup in case you are going to move it. To keep it safe then you should really save phrase seeds, plus if you have a lot of assets in your wallet, it is very important to save recovery seeds.
maybe if you don't save the wallet recovery seed, at least your assets should be sent all to the new wallet that you have saved the backup seed.

It could be possible to be hacked if your device is rooted/jailbroken and it has some malware with root access. An app with click and over the app permission can initiate a withdrawal even without you knowing. Or even an app that could access your clipboard can change the copied address and send your coins to a different address than you intend to. You need to be extra careful while using a rooted phone.

You won't be able to access other people wallet without having their backup/recovery phrase. Though there is little possibility of accessing other user wallet by typing the twelve words recovery phrase randomly in trust wallet. But the possibility is almost zero to get the access of someone else wallet. Cause, everyone gets individual and unique backup phrase. So it won't be easy to get other people backup phrase by inputting it randomly.

Just like you correctly said, that the only way to get access to someone's wallet is through his private keys or backup phrase, which is also only possible if the person visits a scam website, use a clone or fake application or gives a scam website access to his wallet through connecting in DApp, DApp as seen in wallets like Trust wallet etc.
To the best of my understanding, these are the ways in which a wallet can be hacked. On the other hand, if a user fails to backup his private keys or backup phrase, he only puts himself at a very high risk of losing his assets which is only possible when he loses his phone; losing his assets in this case is, he won't be able to access it again.
So in order words, not backing your backup phrase do not give hackers access to a wallet but it places the owner at a high risk, which I explained earlier.
If you do not have a backup phrase of someone, you can't access the person's wallet.
I think most wallets like Imtoken, will always mandate the user to backup first before using the wallet.

Yes, and if the private key or phrase isn't saved, then there's no way to access it unless he creates a new wallet on the same device and that obviously won't restore the wallet he's used before.

Are you trying to tell that the scams are due to phishing sites and is it possible for someone to start a new wallet on trustwallet? and then why would you avoid taking the pass phrase back up. Basically you want to know whether anyone can enter your wallet like a magician without even having your pass phrase, it is almost impossible to get in without any information.

I have same case like that, i never share my private key anywhere from around 2017 and only using metamask but my wallet get hacked it's coming from malware on Dekstop & Android Device, i lost around $1500 from there and you cann see it yourself here 0x2D923A09Bf3110b21381A528552700531dE83F63 (Lost UNI & ETH), It's possible since there was some site that generating random Ethereum address with private key like ethdir.io but the chance was very small, Beside that trust wallet can be compromised if your android phone was hacked and monitored since everything you do on phone will be tracked even though it's hard, Well just be careful and use Change address for every 1-3 months, beside that never click any suspicious link. Good luck!

I didn't get what is the question but it is not possible to hack a wallet without access to a private key or seed phrase. The owner of the account should activate additional security steps in order to protect the coins from hackers, the private key should be kept on offline storage.  Just don't download anything you have no idea what it is.

Exactly, without the exposed private key Hackers can't do anything about public wallet address. Better be safe than sorry, otherwise loss can be uncoverable, IMHO.

Trust Wallet can be entered if a hacker breaks into your e-mail. Thus, he will have access to all saved passwords, bookmarks, other synchronized academic records, and so on. Now I just click on the Trust wallet application and it opens for me without any passwords and this causes me some concern. Anyone who enters the wallet will have access to all created multi-currency wallets and all available cryptocurrencies and, if desired, will copy the keys in the form of 12 words. It looks like it's possible even if you won't share your private keys with third parties.

Only people who are careless and doesn't know how to secure their wallet can have a possibility of losing their funds or wallet. Private key or back up phrase are very important things for your wallet, you should secure it and do not give to anyone or enter in an unknow site because you do not know what kinds of apps they have on their device that can hack your wallet.

Do not do that, you are the first person who actually notice and know if your trust wallet is hack or not, the question is, is your wallet is inaccessible if yes nothing to worry about that, there's a lot of email most of us received that our wallet etc are compromised , so they are offered solution, again, do not believe or click the link coitain by the email, because not only your wallet will compromise, even your smart phone or pc are at risk.

Hmmm it's hard to happened if we save our key and seed well. Most people got hacked because of their own doing. They are sometimes clicking on random giveaway websites or filling form for airdrops without checking multiple times. So we have to secure ourself with our wallet with doing safe activity on the internet.

it is indeed very difficult to happen if what happens is a personal wallet. In some cases I've seen, hacks happen to wallets on exchanges. while for personal wallets, of course, it is very rare.
like you said, it could happen due to user error itself. be more careful when using the main wallet to store our assets to join campaigns or airdrops.

as long as you're not logged out or lost your gadget or corrupt your wallet then it would be fine. But when you're forced to lose your access to your initial wallet and want to re-access it, without keeping a private key, seeds, or backup wallet.dat then you're doom, That's how the crypto world works out. You need to keep it carefully, and you can't share it with other people especially strangers. That's the key to your safe box aka wallet. Then according to your question, should we believe when a person said that their wallet was hacked the answer is probably yes, probably not. We need to dig the information further for sure to know what's exactly happening. But, I think most of the cases it wasn't hacked, but phishing or even unintentionally sharing their own private key by newbies.

I think as backup and security is very useful for wallet security, and need to improve its security, often a lot of the loss of funds does not occur due to carelessness in storing passwords.

If nobody knows your private keys/seeds phrase, no possibility that your wallet will get hacked provided that you never put them online or at your computer. Some say that their funds got lost on the exchanges, this is possible when visited fake/scam sites, many are already a victim to this. And one way to avoid this is to check the legitimacy of the site and their feedback as well.

Additionally, don't trust other people asking for your keys and seeds. Exchanges don't ask that even there is a problem with your account.

If I am not mistaken, you want to ask about Trust Wallet.
That person can still use the wallet and make transactions, but he can not recover his wallet if the wallet is lost because that depends on the phrase to open the wallet.
That is why you should always back up the passphrase to the safe places and only you will know.
Please do not give the phrase to other people you do not know because they can open your wallet and access it, including making a transaction.

Yes, Many Users Trust Wallet Hacked , its due to any reasons like, connect to an unsuspicious Site or putting wallet phrase to an Unknown site or any where but Sometime Wallet hack without all this. Because i think 12 words phrase is not enough. Scammers have A to Z all Possible Phrases words and they trying daily 12 words to import wallet so easily 1 to 2 wallets can open if thery try as many tried , Its very rare but its happening and i see this happen to many users.

You mean creating a Trust wallet account without backing up the wallet? I don't think trust wallet works like that. When you download the trust wallet app, before you can have access to the wallet, you either have to import a backed up wallet of yours or create a new one and back it up. That's how it works.

But, let's imagine that you didn't create a any backup at all, and if the wallet is stored on your device, no one can have access to it, since it is not an online wallet that you create with an email and password. If it's an online wallet that requires your email and password, then if someone gets your email they may hack into your wallet.

Firstly, let me say our private key or back up phrase is very important, and that has to be handle with extra care. Giving it out automatically means you have given your account out. Even with you have the account login on your phone or laptop, with the private key or back up phrase an external person can also have it on their phone too at the same time. Giving they access to monitor the activities on your account. So please you must be very careful about that. To answer the other question you asked, if they have your back up phrase or your private key. Yes, it is very possible. They will do it without you knowing it and you will just login to your wallet and see that all your coins are gone.

Some people that i see hacked in their Trustwallet, usually before it they connect their wallet into a site inside Trustwallet browser. I think because of that, now there are some sites that can help us disconnect our wallet from any kind of sites that we already connect to make our funds safe. So since there are many people get hacked in their Trustwallet, we can believe it and at least be careful about our wallet too.

I don't really understand what you're talking about but I just want to tell you about a friend of mine who really lost his assets, to be more precise, this hacker/thief moved the assets in my friend's wallet into his personal wallet. why did this happen? after being traced because my friend shared information with sites that were not too well known and with big lure and my friend was greedy and tempted, something unexpected happened.
what I want to emphasize here is to stay careful and don't easily believe in fake scams with the lure of big prizes or profits because you could lose the assets you have

doesn't to make a transaction it needs to be signed using private key though? I doubt the decentralized app inside trust wallet could retrieve the private key, no way they could access it using some kind of script but that's just as I remember correctly.
I think most of cases of wallet hacking like this due to exposure of the private key, maybe an app that was installed in the phone somehow get access to the private key stored in the phone.

I believe hackers can hack only when they have access to your keys and seed phrase. Sometimes we are very much assured that we have not shared the keys and phrase anywhere but still hacked the reason behind this some people are unnecessarily clicking the website or unknown links that lead to malware in the system or key logger in the system without your knowledge so always try to have an active antivirus in your system to avoid such issue. Without keys or seed phrase, it's not possible to log in to the wallet only our ignorance helps the hacker to access our wallet. One of my friends got a victim of a key logger and a hacker takes all the coins from his ether account.  Simply block the person if it is known to you and keep saying your wallet gets hacked he might be trying to trap you.

Uhm no.. even with the brute force attack method I see here isn't even gonna do because it takes more than an immortal human being to crack one and probably the site will ban your connection when it notices the traffic you made to the server.

Just don't share your private keys, bud. That's never even the least thing you should do.

Loss phrase seed or private key is mean loss all coins in that wallet, because no other way to access the wallet. User of crypto is possible get hacked in to their personal wallet if they download unknown file or click on untrusted website. If we store any tokens/coins in private wallet, when we want to access the wallet remember to use clean device with antivirus. 

Loss of Private Key mostly occurs due to the negligence of the user himself. many cases occur as a result of using the web or phishing sites that resemble the web used. if that happens, sorry friends it is dangerous and can result in you losing the funds in the wallet. Even though you have a backup phrase it doesn't mean your wallet is still safe.

We must never disregard the ingenuity of hackers, one very old way in which something like this can be achieved is by replacing the contents of your copy and paste, most people do not check that the address they are about to send a transaction is the correct one, so a hacker could replace that information by using a virus and then when you send your coins the hacker gets the coins instead of the intended receiver.

At that point even if you use a password for your transactions then the hacker will know that information as well and then send all the money in that wallet to himself, and all of that can be done without the need to know the private keys or any backup phrase.

I don't hear about trust wallet hacking news till today but it would be pretty possible because when a full headed person would share his personal trust wallet private keys among others then it highly possible to hack. ...

So let's start from the fixed points we must always save the backup phrase even for trust wallet without it it is practically impossible to hack the walet but if unfortunately someone gets/steals/grab our phrase the wallet is lost forever

Don't know what is the system, but maybe they hacked the site and retrieve people's data or maybe if someone know when we connect our wallet to any sites in there what we give to them. When i do connect usually there are notification that we must really careful to linked our wallet to any site and must really know risk behind it. If me not wrong they always make sure to us when we want to connect our wallet.

If anyone open his Private keys, keystore files and private keys without any security, his wallets have possible to hack. Sometimes Many people share his personal information with his friends, and sometimes Ethereum wallets are under hacked.

Share private keys its the end of your asset. Private keys its basic knowledge of bitcoin when people can access specific address only through private key, and for phrase words are some wallets will still ask the password if you write down the password at the beginning creating that wallet.

First of all, who said that your TrustWallet App is hacked? Why did he know it?
You must be careful if someone saying this and offering to help you, it may be only a trick to enter your trust wallet and steal your money.

And, normally, someone else only can enter your trust wallet if they have a back phrase and log in. However, if they haven't, it may be difficult, Except that he is a very professional hacker, maybe he can do it. But so far, as long as we secure our wallet without downloading or klicking phishing applications or links, it is secured enough.

If the wallet was opened on a particular device  then yes it can still be accessed on that device, but if someone else is trying to use another device to access the wallet, then thats when it will require the private key or seed phrase in order to access the funds in that wallet, there's absolutely no way anyone can enter into a wallet from a new device without having the private keys to that wallet, it's impossible have never heard of such.

Reply to what you're currently saying is "No"
I don't see any possibility for someone to get access to your account while the phrase wasn't writing on a sheet or saved on your device. But note that you didn't save the key phrase and this can also lead to loss of funds when you logout or in a situation your device gets stolen. Is very important to keep your key phrase safe.

You have to put 12 phases of words manually in the Trust wallet. To put 12 phases words, you must remember words or screenshot or copy to clipboard. You can't open without taking 12 phases of words. Although you can delete it instantly, what will happen if you lose your phone anyhow? You are also safe by writing it somewhere else.

I think the probability is very low, low enough to be ignored. If someone isn't keeping his phrase，most likely, he won't be able to access the wallet address again，in other words, he lost the tokens in this wallet forever.

First of all it is not possible to create a wallet without storing the private keys since many wallets doesn't support the copy past of private keys, the user needs to manually enters the private keys for that he need to memorize the private keys or seeds then have to re-enter to create a wallet successfully.

Literally, it is not possible to access the wallet without the private keys but there is a way to access the funds without entering into their wallet via clipboard malware by using this the hacker can change the actual destination address into the hacker's address and receive the funds into their wallets.

Private key and  back phrase is the only way hacker can get into your wallet, If you are careless about these sensitve infomation of your wallet, you will have only yourself to blame! How can someone open a wallet where you will keep your hard earn money into and be lazy and lacadasical about storing your private key or back phrase securely? It beat me that people take these things less serious!

In fact, the answer is simple - only having a private key, you can make a transaction from a wallet, whose private key you know. Accordingly, you can send a transaction from a certain wallet if you either have a private key from it, or you guessed it. The second, according to the theory of probability, is very hard to believe. This means that there is only one option - to take possession in some way, the private key from the wallet. There are no other options !

Trust wallet can't be hacked because the security system is  very strong and real secured, the only way a hacker or scammer can break through someone's wallet is when there have access to the wallet keys of that person, so it's either the person must have misplaced or share his wallet keys that's why he thinks that his wallet was hacked. So I will totally disagree if he says his wallet was hacked, he should be corrected and know trust wallet can't be hacked directly.

No one can use it unless you share your wallet spare keys and required key keys with anyone. Apart from this, it must have access to the devices you are logged in to and can use your wallets if you are logged in on these devices. Finally, your wallets can be stolen and emptied in case of any virus infiltration into your devices or if you give the necessary permissions to malicious sites or share your information. Unless you do these, no one can get hold of your account information.

You can take these precautions by protecting them meticulously and not sharing them with anyone. You can keep your accounts safe by using a secure antivirus program on both your computer and your phone.

I think its possible, if the hacker have access to the phone then he can do whatever he want.
I dont think theres another possible way to have access on the wallet.

I think it's possible if the victim phone/dekstop was hacked and the hacker will monitoring or controlling their device then make an transaction from there beside that Clipboard malware was also dangerous, i still remember around 2018 when it change automatically change to the hacker address if they detect BTC or ETH Address, We just need to be more careful and don't install any suspicous apps or click the link.

There are certain situation where someone's wallet got hacked and they do not even know how it happen. There are some websites also that giving your personal information is dangerous because they can use it in some transactions that are scams. You should keep your phrase safe and its very important for you so that you only can access your wallet.

there is a possibility might happened when loosing off the gadgets which the person or hackers can make anything accessing the wallets and get all coins on a trust wallet . Other than that if it didn't shared the private keys and 12 phrases word possibly it won't hacked.

That's another thing, if the device was stolen or loss and the one who holds it knows about

crypto. expect that those assets inside your wallet will travel to another destination, they'll

suck it out from your device. Other than that, your seed will always a protection to your investment.

actually no one can hack your wallet without you doing something that give a permission to do so by clicking phishing links, leaking out your private keys or seed phrase or sign a transaction that gives higher permission. so anyone could be hacked depending on what the person does.

I've had my wallet hacked because it was hit by a phishing site, one type of phishing site is a fake metamask that asks for pharse or dex sites that have to connect the wallet, to prevent that we have to unrekt the wallet at https://app.unrekt. net/
we must have knowledge about crypto so that our wallet is not hacked

if that was your close friend and he said it ,
won't you not believe him ? you should and you should approach and help him troubleshoot his wallet but if it's a random stranger online says it and followed by links well that is suspicious and you should not believe on it .
you don't compare your intelligence to others because you could be smart and you can detect a scam but others are not good at crypto .

It is possible to use a wallet without back up phrase if you stay on one computer. But if you want to connect to your wallet from another device you need your back up phrase . Actually hackers sometimes steal assets from different online wallets, so it is better to keep your money in hardware cryptocurrency wallets, like ledger.

There is no way to access the wallet without the phrase or private key. Usually, there is a notification about it there, a warning to keep the phrase or private key as the only way to access it. Hackers can access the wallet after they got the phrase or private key from the wallet owner. But the problem is, hackers can get the phrase or private key from various ways. So, we must always remember to save the phrase or private key in a secure place. Make sure hackers cannot find a way to access the place. 

As long as it's saved on his phone, he can keep using it even without the seeds. But what kind of person you are if you're ignoring the fact that seeds/passphrase are very important as if you don't hold it, you'll lose your funds if you've reformat your phone and can no longer remember the exact words that shall be used to retrieve your wallet if you want to use it onto another device.

And if some unsolicited messages pop up, better ignore it especially if you know your keys are secure. Hackers will always find a way how to penetrate a system especially if they see the vulnerability of the gadget. However, some hackers know how to trick users giving false claims that they got your private keys but they haven't. That's when you will make wrong move that they can get in in your system. So don't fall for false claims if you know that your system is really secure.

There will always be scams in the crypto world, it is just impossible to go without a single day without anyone getting hacked or scammed, there is at least one person that gets hacked or scammed every single day, sometimes big amounts sometimes small amounts. The total estimate is in billions of dollars, every year over a billion dollars is stolen or hacked in the crypto world.

However what we should be focusing on is the fact that fiat is much much much bigger than that, like over 100x bigger, which means getting scammed is not something specific to crypto, it is something that is regarding money, ever since humanity started there are people who is getting scammed. I have seen literally antic age tablets about getting scammed. So we should not be worried about these type of things, they are temporary things that can be solved as long as we are careful enough about it.

Yes, if you never give your wallet private key to someone else, then the wallet is still very safe to use, but when someone doesn't realize that he has imported his wallet into a phishing site, then his wallet can also be hacked by scammers, here are two things which is often a problem with cryptocurrency wallet hacks.

OMG! You can't believe your own phone! Why are you so frustrated? Scammers or hackers won't visit your home! You should write down your 12 phrases words. Your phone could lose, burn or crash, we always need a backup. Once I lost my money because of extra protection. Your money will be safe if you don't copy it, but how do you rewrite it without copying the 12 phases?

The safest thing is to store the cryptocurrency that we have in a hardware wallet, because it has been proven that there are rarely bad incidents of
losing coins if we store private keys correctly. Then what happened to you is a lesson for all of us. to be careful when deciding to save the coins we have
in online wallets such as trustwallet. Hackers are waiting for us as wallet owners to make mistakes, so always be alert and careful when using an
online wallet.

Recently, it was discovered that many people's wallets were stolen from their blockchain.com accounts, and many others had the same experience. It is recommended not to back up the password to the same computer or a computer connected to the network. Hackers can easily steal through some online networks.

that means it's not a virus that's the problem. it is his personal fault if he downloads the wallet wrong.
it can happen because the OP often links his wallet to a malicious website address. especially if it is a new DEX exchange platform. it's very possible hacking.

I didn't quite understand the question are you asking if they could enter the wallet or connect it on other site without entering the seed phrase or private key and make a transaction?
If that is your question then it would depend on the site that they would go for example pancakeswap only needs to connect on your wallet and doesn't need you to input your seed phrase.

You will be the only one to know if it's a hack or not, this wallet would not exist and get lots of users if it's not safe to use it, usually, the problem when a wallet is hacked is due to the owner's negligence, if we don't put the security needed to ensure our wallet is safe, then one day you'll just surprise your balance will be gone. Actually mate, you need to educate yourself more, not only on the basic knowledge on how to use the wallet, but on how to secure it as well.

I would add that phishing sites aren't the only way to hack someone's wallet. However, I don't even see the point why someone would reach out to you to let you know your wallet got hacked. I don't know where that person got in touch with OP, but on Telegram you get such messages all the time from scammers.

If they sideloaded the app through an unofficial source instead of Google Play then it is possible for this to happen. If you are going to install an APK then first you need to verify the checksum or PGP signature to see that it is a valid app and not a modified version that could have malware.

And also avoid being greed that you see random people posting stuffs and it is requiring you to go to a website that they link on their post. There's no such as free money, it will always be that there's an exchange for every action we do just like those 'promo scams'.

The keyword is private seed so if it is known to others then the thief will take over your assets, so keep the private seed on the most secure device or store it in a flash disk / other hardware. In the past many people lost their personal seed on phishing sites so be careful.

The major reason for these is that they enter their pass phrase to some phishing sites and that is how majority loose their account balance and you need to be careful where you enter and you cannot even trust random searches in search engines because there are advertising links that can even replicate the legit site, so find the legit site to official sources and i usually bookmark them rather than relying on search engines.

If you mean steal his or her funds, then yes. Anyone can access anyone's wallet and steal funds if the said wallet has its private keys, mnemonics or filestore stolen. Its that easy. You need those to run transactions

Since I learn about crypto in 2017, my first wallet was myethwallet. I have experience series of wallet being compromised, if am not mistaken at least 3 times. And I notice that most of the fault was from me, I always make mistake in filling bounty form, inputting my private key instead of public address. Its is just in one of the case's which I really don't know how, which makes me believe what an old friend told me about how simple it is to guess private key with a single mistake you are either in someone's wallet or on a new wallet.
But ever since I started making use of Trust wallet I have never experience such. It's only someone who have access to you device that can be able to steal your fund, and that is only if you did not activate the security option which will require password before sending transaction.

Not necessary. Firstly, you should think about why a person should lie to you or say that his wallet was hacked, for what?
I do not believe the developers and exchange owners who say that their wallets have been hacked, often they themselves can steal funds and present everything as hacking.
If we are talking about an ordinary person, then they really are most often hacked through their own fault.

Only if he leaks his wallet security system to someone else can the password be hacked, moreover I have never heard of a trust wallet being hacked.Many times different fraudsters can hack the security system by clicking on different websites. So in this case you have to be aware.

If you use trust wallet or Metamask and your wallet are already imported but you lost your private key or back up, your can still make transactions until your wallet gets logout in trust wallet and you can regain your private key or recovery phrase from setting but once logged out, it won't possible then to recover it after logout. Same in Metamask, if you already imported your Private key, lost your Private key, it can be recovered from settings the wallet your imported in metamask but if you install new metamask and try to recover it won't be possible. So, saving Private key, backup phrase in different files or notebook is a good idea.

Long time ago my wallet was hacked, suddenly my ETH sent out automatically to the scammer wallet. This incident not something new in crypto. I am the type of careful person but still got hacked, maybe there is an unintentional mistake that I made and I forgot. Phrase or private key is something important and we should always have a backup in a safe place. If you ask can we do transactions without a phrase? the answer is yes if you are still logged in to the wallet, and the answer is no if you are logged out and do not have a backup phrase.