Hackers steal Ethereum, who is hurt?

[tippytoes]

It will be investigated, if it's the fault of Apple, then it will not result good to their business. Actually, AFAIK, apple is more secured than other OS, so how come this happens? If their system is compromised then probably its time to see more pump in crypto as investors will fly in crypto from apple.

However, I really thought it's just an isolated case where the problem is mostly coming from the user, not the system itself, but I could be wrong.
I'll follow the development of this and hear your opinion guys, this should be not be taken lightly, I'm an apple user too.

I believe, it is more on isolated case. Apple, in my opinion, is more secure than any other OS. So it is not the system per se. Maybe we are wrong. but we don't know the whole story here. We need tangible facts before we can draw conclusion.

[olabiyijummy02]

The most common way that hackers use are malware spy attacks and phsing attacks
I once fell a  victim of malware attack where the hacker stole my ether from my ethereum wallet
In my case, i believe my computer was attacked through my metamask.
I stopped using metamask since that day and i never had any compromise of any of my other wallets

[qory]

How come? Most of my Ethereum is in exchange so I think it's safe there also I don't store my ethereum to some wallets but on hardware wallet. We really can't tell where they will attack or when.

[TastyChillySauce00]

However, I really thought it's just an isolated case where the problem is mostly coming from the user, not the system itself, but I could be wrong.

This is the hacker's address according to the reddit post linked above:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xc940eda1fbe83db6e11d48eecad6f0de07915ffe
It has received many transactions in the last couple of days. So, I don't think this is an isolated case. The first transaction it received was two days ago. OP suspects that Trust wallet might be vulnerable but I think it's too early to draw conclusions.

He said the seed was stored in metal box and the only device he used to access it was an ipad pro, if the story that was shared in reddit is really true I believe it's the ipad itself that has been compromised and there's so many transactions that was made aswell, I doubt the activity done manually, I think it's malware or such, I know IpadOS is rather strict but anything can happen right? not to mention if the ipad was bought in second hand condition, it might have some kind of fishy software installed, etc. so many possibilities.

[Stalker22]

How come? Most of my Ethereum is in exchange so I think it's safe there also I don't store my ethereum to some wallets but on hardware wallet. We really can't tell where they will attack or when.

You think your Ethereum is SAFU on the exchange? Haven't we learned anything from the past?

When you send your coins to the exchange, it really isn't your money. It belongs to the exchange.