Is there any other way wallet can be compromised?

[Justbillywitt]

There is no other explanation need for you to that it was the site you connected your wallet to that wiped out your funds. Your funds were safe before the connection was made, and after the connection your funds vanished, that's to tell you that there are other ways your funds could be moved outside your private key or seed phrase. We learn everyday and you just discovered another way. The moment you approved the connection that was what exposed your wallet information. Airdrops are highly risky something. Even if the airdrop is legit, scammers will always come up with various malicious links and you won't know the one that got to you if it's the fake or the legit one. It's best you get two mobile devices one specifically for airdrops and the wallet in it if you must do airdrops. While the other device which have your main wallet should never have anything to do with clicking of any links, not to talk of connecting your wallet. Let's play safe, sorry for your loss.

[knowngunman]

It could very well not be the Airdrop being malicious but OP having malware that compromised even the Seed of their Wallet.

This is my concern now honestly. I know it doesn't take a blink of eye to create a new wallet but as it is now, I can't tell whether my device entirely is comprised and creating a new wallet on the device might not be completely safe from future attack. I will just have to abandoned the device and anything that has to do with wallet while I get another device to create a new wallet.

There is no other explanation need for you to that it was the site you connected your wallet to that wiped out your funds. Your funds were safe before the connection was made, and after the connection your funds vanished, that's to tell you that there are other ways your funds could be moved outside your private key or seed phrase.

Despite that I have no any proof against the airdrop site for stealing my funds, they still remain the top list of my suspect because I check their Twitter handle and many people were complaining of the same thing happening to them when they connect their wallet to the site. Although, someone explain under this thread that it is possible for them to have access to your wallet information as soon as you connect it and even if you disconnect the wallet, this information can be accessed by them. However, I'm still finding it hard to believe the whole scenario how it happened despite that I have moved on.

[Cookdata]

My questions:
Is it possible for airdrop sites to access your funds even after disconnecting your wallet?
Is there any other way wallet can be compromised aside this mistakes?

It's becoming scary day by day to leave huge amount of assets on wallet this days. Perhaps this is one of the reason some people still think everything about bitcoin and crypto entirely is a scam as funds lost can not be recovered. I will appreciate detail explanation on this and the solution to avoid future occurrence.

I'm not sure if you are aware there were some email bridge from Coingecko and some exchanges some weeks ago, anyone can have access to that leak emails and other sensitive information and if your email is one of those comprised, they can try those emails with the leak password and if you are the type of person that use simple password or general password, your email content could be exposed through this way.

It could also be that someone close to you have access to your phone or email login and you don't know about it, so do well and check your email activity if there has been an attempted login from other devices or just check the devices your email login into.

About been connected to aidrops, this is not the safest way to use a wallet address. When running airdrops, you should never use your main wallet to participate in any of the airdrops because you might be compel to interact with a smart contract and this contracts are hidden, you don't know what they means or what they are to do, you might end up exposing your entire wallet doing these aidrops, next time use a new wallets with nothing on the address to claim or participate in airdrops.

[Alone055]

There are a couple of mistakes that you've made that you shouldn't make in the future.

The first mistake is to use a wallet that has funds for airdrops. That is one of the biggest mistakes one can make, newbies tend to do this but you seem to be a bit experienced, so you shouldn't do that. Always make and use new wallets when you are participating in an airdrop, and only use funds that you are using for the airdrop for like bridging or making transactions to become eligible, etc.

Your second mistake is keeping a lot of funds in decentralized wallet that is stored as an extension in your browser. You can't expect for such wallets to never get compromised because you visit a lot of websites when surfing the internet and things can happen. So it's best for you to keep your funds in a non-custodial wallet that isn't stored in a device that you use all the time. It's even better if you can use a hardware wallet for that.

[Coyster]

It's becoming scary day by day to leave huge amount of assets on wallet this days.

On what kind of wallets, offline, online, closed source? etc. You cannot just say it is scary to keep huge assets in wallets these days, wallets that are online and one that you connect to different websites for airdrops have never been safe. From the replies of many in this topic, it should be clear to you now why you lost your funds.

If you don't want to lose more, keep your huge amounts in offline wallets, create an empty wallet if you want to claim airdrops or you can forget about airdrops completely. Being your own bank comes with quite a lot of responsibilities and anyone who isn't ready for it should prolly not be using bitcoin.

[Saint-loup]

Which crypto it was precisely. Your story is weird because it means someone has been able to hack your Google account. How do you explain it? Are you really sure that all people living at your home are trustworthy?