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April 26, 2018, 02:58:00 PM
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A huge incident happened in the last two days when MyEtherWallet, which is one of the most popular wallets for storing Ethereum, had its DNS server hacked, which led to users getting phished and losing their Ethereum.

The attack occurred when hackers hijacked MEW’s domain name server and redirected its’ users to a malicious fake copy of the website, which got access of users’ private keys, when they unknowingly entered their details in the spoofed website.

The wallet where the illicit funds were being transferred to, was found to have collected more than 215 ETH, which means a value of around $150,000 in terms of fiat money. The amount was then transferred to an address [0x1d50588C0aa11959A5c28831ce3DC5F1D3120d29] which contained a far larger sum of ETH, at around 24,100, which means a value of around $17 million in terms of fiat money. The addresses used to collect the illicit funds have been used for such illicit attacks in the past.

Read More : https://zycrypto.com/googles-dns-vulnerability-caused-myetherwallet-hack/

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