myetherwallet passoword and private key

[suryan9860]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

[lazcemal]

password is only protecting the file, thus private key. you can do anything with the private key.

[suryan9860]

got it now .Thanks

[sarmrakib]

Password is for to save your documents.  And private key actually the main key of an account.  You can access from any device to your account with this private key. so need to keep it up safe and not to share with others. If you share you will lose all of your money.

[Mary ann Labor]

Password for myetherwallet means you have access to an account already but it doesn't mean you own the account while the private key means you do not need the password but anyone who finds your JSON can access your wallet & Ether without the password.

[hh4mmm]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

In mew the only thing you need to do is to keep your password and private keys secret to yourself alone in other to secure your token from being stolen from external body. You know with your keys all your token will missed if that is wrongly kept and be aware that only address that have private keys you can use in receiving of tokens.

[blockman]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

When the hacker gets your private key then he has now the control to your tokens and he can do whatever he want like sending it to another wallet address that he wish. Exposing it on live is something that only crazy people will do. That's a lesson learned from and don't tell anyone about your passwords and mostly with your private key if you want to save your tokens.

[dadandandadan]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

private itself is the key to unlock your wallet. This private is the most important key to secure and keep safe because if someone knows your private key then you already are invulnerable on hacking. All of the users are been scammed because of wrong and carelessly used of their private key. As you notice all the victims are surely been hacked because of their unsecured private key and not because of their password.

[bundo]

password is only protecting the file, thus private key. you can do anything with the private key.

The keyholder can be free to do his job, all he does is steal money from his wallet .. drain it out and enjoy it,''

[zikabra]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

Because you need only private key.
If you know private key you can do whatever you like with wallet.
Better keep that safe.

[czhen]

keep both your passwords stored in a safe place and there is news saying that there is a fake myetherwallet address and we need to be careful.
 

[bbv4pawn]

The difference is not very clearly stated on their website:

private key is enough to get full access to the account
password is used when you access the account with the JSON wallet file

[otto_diesel]

and also, you dont need to know your passwork, because you can find your pvt key, in json file, with notepad.

[howlong358]

private key is enough to get all your tokens. so don't ever post your private key or fall into a fishing site. MEW private key is our life as cryptonians.

[Dlugina23]

He is so reach to public priv key?

[BlackPanda]

private key is enough to get all your tokens. so don't ever post your private key or fall into a fishing site. MEW private key is our life as cryptonians.

And even MEW also implies that accessing the account via Private key is very dangerous because everyone can access our account as long as they know the private key we have, Now the technology is getting higher and therefore it could be bad people do remote access to computer we have . So try never to keep private key and make sure we access MEW from computer that has been confirmed safe from software and network that we have.


Myetherwallet announcment :
This is not a recommended way to access your wallet.
Entering your private key on a website dangerous. If our website is compromised or you accidentally visit a different website, your funds will be stolen.

[ETHtotheMOON1]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

unlucky. Password is the way you encrypto the private key, but once you have access to private key itself, you can access the wallet anytime. Well making a video with real mew wallet is kind of like calling to get hacked

[Koobtcgal]

There are many ways that can be used to assess your myetherwallet account which can be found right after the mew site loads. The two common ones that many people use are either via private key(does not require additional paasword) and json/keystore(requires password).The keystore is the same as the private key only that it has been encrypted which you need to enter a password before accessing it. So the option is yours either to use encrypted private key(keystore/json file) with password or the private without password.

[cryptoman1ac]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

The scammer only needs the private key of your wallet and he then can access it and withdraw all your balances as he may. As a beginner, you should be extra careful especially when there is someone asking for personal information or if others would ask you to contribute in exchange for some goods that is very promising and good to be true.

[Wipro]

I was seeing live youtube video of Aaron St. Hilaire just now and that guy unknowingly shared his myetherwallet private key to thousand of people live  and within minute all his token was stolen from his account

I am new and just want to know ,we login to myetherwallet using password and private key .If a hacker see the private key ,how without password he can login to his myetherwallet address and stole all tokens 

The scammer only needs the private key of your wallet and he then can access it and withdraw all your balances as he may. As a beginner, you should be extra careful especially when there is someone asking for personal information or if others would ask you to contribute in exchange for some goods that is very promising and good to be true.

Scammer in the sense you should not be access the fake wallet URL address. Most of the fake sites go using on blockchain. info and myetherwallet to hack the funds. Mass hacking will not work on these both wallet, until you check with the private key on incorrect site. I personally faced this on both these wallet. I do not use any cloud to save details.
I always prefer to save the private key, public address and DAT file on my personal SSD I have.