Rumors: MEW DNS possible hijacked... stay away and safe

[MisO69]

Is this rumor true?
I still do not believe this rumor, but anyway if indeed all the issues are true
I must have anticipation, to avoid the things that are not desirable,
I have to use a harder wallet,
and I have to move my coin coins that are still left in MEW with as soon as possible.

Yes this is sadly true  every person could lose his all money, it is just about timing that saved you. I always knew that is going to happen one day. I've started to use offline version of myetherwallet because of that.

It has nothing to do with timing. People who don't understand how website security works will be affected. When you see a big red X beside myetherwallet.com then you know something is up. Yet people still sign in.. 

If you want to look at your holdings then you should be using etherscan.io

[MarioSPGroup]

Yes I feel very sorry for the victims..   
A few have lost a really high amount of money. I just hope it was not their life savings -.-

[bobo012]

Thank you for the information. it seems it is already resolved per their official twitter.
But it is better to wait it out a bit more to be safe

[Sephire]

This DNS hack of MEW keeps happenning every few months. May have to download a local copy of MEW to the computer to avoid this kind of risk permanently.

[Manchumichael]

Some rumors going around that Myetherwallet got hacked.... Better to stay away and not access your wallet with private key or keystore file until they fix it or they announce an update.... Stay safe ya'll

Reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MyEtherWallet/comments/8ek0jj/think_i_got_scammedphishedhacked/

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UPDATE:

Unfortunately the rumors are true and you can track the hacker wallet here (he stoke almost 25k ETH so far):

https://etherscan.io/address/0xb3aaaae47070264f3595c5032ee94b620a583a39

Here's an official announcement from Myetherwallet:

https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/988787116015415296

Thanks dude today i thought to transfer my tokens to exchange site but i was busy with my work, now also if i am not login means i may open my my MEW account. people are telling now the issue is fixed but why risk i will wait one more week.

[aggress0r]

Hey guys do you know could this happen to MetaMask account?

ps. I should purchase Ledger as soon as possible

[kryptqnick]

Is this true? today I have several times access myetherwallet to transact, is my wallet safe? this worries me and scares me.

There was a twitter update from MEW that everything seems to be stable now, but I think it would be best not to access the wallet for some time. The hackers used the technique which lives the name of the website as it should be, but redirects it elsewhere. It's kind of tricky and not that easy to notice.

Hey guys do you know could this happen to MetaMask account?

ps. I should purchase Ledger as soon as possible

I don't think it can. Metamask is an extension on your browser, I think it's pretty different from accessing a specific website. At least, I see no people talking about this dns thing being also the case for metamask accounts.
Theoretically, though, it could be hacked or you could be deceived, as some stories about Metamask on github show.

[len23]

Useful information thank you,I will take it seriously and inform my friends too.But I will continue to use MEW because as of now I don't have experience bad thing about it.

[DiabolicAnt]

Thanks for the info; I just decided to hold on from checking and sending funds for this time.

[AlisaWhishie]

Is this true? today I have several times access myetherwallet to transact, is my wallet safe? this worries me and scares me.

If I were you, I would immediately send all my saving from that address that was used today. Of course, it is not completely safe to use MEW today, but if you already opened it today, it won't make your situation worse.
It's better to create a new account and send your coins there and be calm. (But don't create it from a phishing site, I don't actually know if it is possible, but be on guard).

[Shingaling]

This is one of the reason why cryptocurrency is said to be risky,hackers and scammers are everywhere.Avoid using MEW today if you can for the safe of your coins

[Oceat]

Some rumors going around that Myetherwallet got hacked.... Better to stay away and not access your wallet with private key or keystore file until they fix it or they announce an update.... Stay safe ya'll

Reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MyEtherWallet/comments/8ek0jj/think_i_got_scammedphishedhacked/

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UPDATE:

Unfortunately the rumors are true and you can track the hacker wallet here (he stoke almost 25k ETH so far):

https://etherscan.io/address/0xb3aaaae47070264f3595c5032ee94b620a583a39

Here's an official announcement from Myetherwallet:

https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/988787116015415296

This might be the reason why it takes longer to process our payments via MEW and when i do look and visit the website it says "error_33 could not connect to the node". Somehow the hackers redirected the users to a phising sites i wonder why the users don't know anything about this. I hope the MEW supports and developer upgrade their security system so that none of those hackers can get in touch again to the users account.

[AlisaWhishie]

I've also found some trick to avoid using DNS and to go to MEW and Etherdelta (which also was hacked recently) directly.

To do this, you should open C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
then open "hosts" file an at the end of it paste the following two lines:
104.20.225.58 etherdelta.com
52.85.242.126 myetherwallet.com
then you save and close this file.
After it your browser will go to genuine sites only.

PS.: I've found this method in a Russian board, here is the original thread, in case if someone would like to thank the author

[MarioSPGroup]

I've also found some trick to avoid using DNS and to go to MEW and Etherdelta (which also was hacked recently) directly.

To do this, you should open C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
then open "hosts" file an at the end of it paste the following two lines:
104.20.225.58 etherdelta.com
52.85.242.126 myetherwallet.com
then you save and close this file.
After it your browser will go to genuine sites only.

PS.: I've found this method in a Russian board, here is the original thread, in case if someone would like to thank the author

Really nice! thanks alot for this

[NaXxow]

woah, I dont know if it is true but how is it even possible? How about other ERC20 wallet, are they also affected? If I will open IE or Google Chrome or Mozilla, which one has a higher risk being hack?

[MarioSPGroup]

woah, I dont know if it is true but how is it even possible? How about other ERC20 wallet, are they also affected? If I will open IE or Google Chrome or Mozilla, which one has a higher risk being hack?

It is possible, yes. But the Haker just hijacked the DNS Server from MEW.
You should everytime be sure to check the SSL Certificate (in the upper left corner, next to the URL).
If it is green, you are good to go normally, no matter which browser you are using.

[crypto-bit]

This so worried,I read some article regarding this news and i shocked that hacker steal millions of dollar worth of eth and other ERC-20 tokens.The hacker is smart that he able to hijack the DNS of MEW and create some phishing technique.I have also token and eth and i did not acces right now until the issue concern will resolve.

[xiaomianao]

I still have some tokens in it. Is that all? Who can teach me how to do it, I will be very grateful.

[aggress0r]

Is this true? today I have several times access myetherwallet to transact, is my wallet safe? this worries me and scares me.

There was a twitter update from MEW that everything seems to be stable now, but I think it would be best not to access the wallet for some time. The hackers used the technique which lives the name of the website as it should be, but redirects it elsewhere. It's kind of tricky and not that easy to notice.

Hey guys do you know could this happen to MetaMask account?

ps. I should purchase Ledger as soon as possible

I don't think it can. Metamask is an extension on your browser, I think it's pretty different from accessing a specific website. At least, I see no people talking about this dns thing being also the case for metamask accounts.
Theoretically, though, it could be hacked or you could be deceived, as some stories about Metamask on github show.

Thanks for help, mate. My Metamask account was not affected.

[duyduc256]

This so worried,I read some article regarding this news and i shocked that hacker steal millions of dollar worth of eth and other ERC-20 tokens.The hacker is smart that he able to hijack the DNS of MEW and create some phishing technique.I have also token and eth and i did not acces right now until the issue concern will resolve.

I think all will soon be resolved and everyone will be safe. All hackers are getting smarter as they continually attack the market and we should have more layers of security. I am confident MEW is working to fix this and will give investors more options to secure their accounts. The best advice is not to log in at this point as it is very dangerous