MyEtherWallet Succumbs to DNS Attack with $ 17 million stolen

[jpucela14]

They always warned that Keystore and seed phrase was not a secure way to access the wallets so I don't think this is a big surprise. If you accessed with a TREZOR or Ledger you should be okay.

[JeffBrad12]

Popular Ethereum wallet interface MyEtherWallet has succumbed to a DNS hijacking attack that allowed a hacker to redirect users to a malicious version of the website.

The MEW confirmed that this was not their fault and was trying their best to identify the attacked server to fix things as soon as possible.
This topic is rapidly spreading on the Reddit forum. The attacking IP address seems to come from Russia. At the time of writing, 25,000 ETH ($ 17 million) has been stolen.

It is highly recommend that everyone be careful when using the MEW wallet and follow the security instructions by MEW wallet. In other words, you are advised to integrate Metamask into login and make direct transactions via Metamask. If you want to check your balance, visit https://etherscan.io/, which means you do not have to log into MyEtherwallet.com anymore, so you will avoid the hidden potential risk here.

Rothscoin team.

This shit about how you are spreading a referral link to your site and take the advantage by made fake result regarding how amount that has been stolen by the hacker.
This is the hacker's address 0x1d50588C0aa11959A5c28831ce3DC5F1D3120d29, and the hacker is about stealing around $150,000 and 17 million dollars just a bullshit thing.

[jhenz20]

I saw also the tweet of Mew about this problem and i feel sorry for those victims who got scammed. And i am also afraid about this because some of my token got a big price in the market. I did not open my MEW because I'm so scared that my token will got stolen. We all know that we are not all secured, so don't make a move or access some unknown website. And thanks for this topic because i got an idea about the news of MEW.

[Angel0]

So sad to hear, and at least they could trace the hacker if possible but I think they need the help of the government to do so.

But nice for them to have initiative to do some action like checking your coin with our logging to your MEW that really cause phising when you open the wrong site.

[frommolo]

Wow, it's already 17mln$, I read about it but it was absolutely another amount, if I don't mistake only about 150.000$.

[Caladonian]

It's really a bad day for those owners of this alleged hacked, its been noticed even before that MEW got this problem and to makes sure that you
have some extra security better not to open a website manually, they advise to bookmarked the site and make sure that private keys and those extra
securities already been set up, those hackers are just around waiting for the next target.

[Lambido]

this is crazy

[CryptoTech_]

very sad to hear this news, and this also makes the price of ETH and token-based ETH directly experienced a very drastic price decline, whereas in the last day everything is still up
one thing I want to ask, when will myetherwallet return to normal? or even never will?

[Periodik]

Popular Ethereum wallet interface MyEtherWallet has succumbed to a DNS hijacking attack that allowed a hacker to redirect users to a malicious version of the website.

The MEW confirmed that this was not their fault and was trying their best to identify the attacked server to fix things as soon as possible.
This topic is rapidly spreading on the Reddit forum. The attacking IP address seems to come from Russia. At the time of writing, 25,000 ETH ($ 17 million) has been stolen.

It is highly recommend that everyone be careful when using the MEW wallet and follow the security instructions by MEW wallet. In other words, you are advised to integrate Metamask into login and make direct transactions via Metamask. If you want to check your balance, visit https://etherscan.io/, which means you do not have to log into MyEtherwallet.com anymore, so you will avoid the hidden potential risk here.

Rothscoin team.

Hackers are everywhere these days. And many of them are going into the world of cryptocurrency, knowing that there is so much money in there. This is not a good incident. This might cause potential cryptocurrency investors to once again question the safety measures used by cryptocurrency wallets, especially online ones.

[Haunebu]

Wow, it's already 17mln$, I read about it but it was absolutely another amount, if I don't mistake only about 150.000$.

I heard the same thing that around 212 ETH was stolen or something, but this is insane. 17 freaking million dollars is a humongous amount and I seriously feel bad for the people who lost their funds. I usually tend to check my funds through ethplorer and rarely ever access my wallet which helped me out in this case. I advise everyone not to access their wallet if they simply wish to check their funds and instead depend on websites like ethplorer etc which will minimize the risk to a big degree. Also, I still consider MEW relatively safe even after this attack since this is the most reliable ETH wallet at the moment.

[xpazer]

How to secure my wallet, I was very nervous to know this information. But I'm lucky I have not logged in recently

[BitcoVast]

Thank you for the information you provide, we must remain vigilant against hackers, DNS transfer case is indeed difficult to resolve, unlike the case of fake loger

[bisdak40]

When i learned about this development yesterday, i am disappointed because i'm also a victim of wallet hacking and i knew how it feels that your hard earned money will get lost to criminals. I hope they will caught the hackers and brought to justice.

[commanderbitcoin]

This is one of the reason why the market suddenly collapse. Hoping that this event is just temporary and the market would recover again very soon. Ethereum price also suffer a big dump after spreading this news.

[javadsalehi]

very sad to hear this news, and this also makes the price of ETH and token-based ETH directly experienced a very drastic price decline, whereas in the last day everything is still up
one thing I want to ask, when will myetherwallet return to normal? or even never will?

Seems that myetherwallet is safe now. But we should wait until myetherwallet developers officially make an announcement. Before that log in to the wallet is very risky.

[NineBall]

This is one of the reason why the market suddenly collapse. Hoping that this event is just temporary and the market would recover again very soon. Ethereum price also suffer a big dump after spreading this news.

probably because myetherwallet eth price becomes cheap. I hope, with the incident eth prices do not go down continue to be cheaper

[NewBet]

This is the biggest threat to the cryptocurrency market. There are always hacks and people are always losing money to these hacks which means that a lot of people get scared about investing due to the fear that they might lose their coins. Although Myetherwallet seem to be dealing with the hack accordingly, I am not yet able to log into my wallet to see if my coins were stolen

[Sangkuni]

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This shit about how you are spreading a referral link to your site and take the advantage by made fake result regarding how amount that has been stolen by the hacker.
This is the hacker's address 0x1d50588C0aa11959A5c28831ce3DC5F1D3120d29, and the hacker is about stealing around $150,000 and 17 million dollars just a bullshit thing.

oh seriously? I don't think you checked where the stolen eth/token(s) was sent...

all eth/token(s) has been sent to this address
https://etherscan.io/address/0xb3aaaae47070264f3595c5032ee94b620a583a39
EDIT: please read this https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/988836522974572544

[vasilisc555]

Strangely, I heard that only $ 150,000 was stolen. In any case, we will not know the truth! There is nothing to know for a common man in the street

[Ethan Becker]

Crypto industry is the best place for hackers/scammers. Crypto haven't control and all hackers/scammers come here. It's very big problem for industry. Crypto-community needs more protection from this.
Crypto industry can't compete with banks and fiat funds, until we minimize such risks.
I thought that MEW is very safe wallet. I'm very concerned after this news