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Two Massive Cryptocurrency Wallets Also Hacked, What's Happening?

Wed, 08/03/2022 - 10:35
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Arman Shirinyan
Trust and Phantom wallets users are in danger as their funds might be targeted by hackers
Two Massive Cryptocurrency Wallets Also Hacked, What's Happening?
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The industry already faced a worrying hack that mostly affected Solana and Ethereum users as their funds were stolen directly from their noncustodial mobile wallets, which means that millions of users could be in danger, and Trust (ironically named) and Phantom wallets are the new targets of hackers. Business analytics professor Adam Cochran has his own take on events.

According to the expert, the attack could be the result of a compromised mobile library or badly stored private keys on certain apps. His initial hypothesis was based on the fact that almost no Ethereum users became victims of the hack, and the majority of users who lost their funds were Solana investors or traders.

The main reason behind the imbalance is tied to the number of mobile wallet users on Ethereum, which is significantly lower compared to the number of mobile Solana users. Interestingly, most of the victims had been using iOS-based wallet applications.

Users quickly came back to Cochran and reported that the problem also exists on Android-based wallets like Trust Wallet, which means that there is a possibility of cross contamination when the successfull attack on one type of asset opens up the possibility of an attack on another one.

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With the help of other users, Cochran and Solana Labs developers confirmed that most Trust Wallet users imported their wallet's seed phrase into the Slope Web3 application, which could be the source of the contamination. With a seed phrase, hackers are able to receive direct access to funds on Trust or any other wallet, including Phantom. 

As of now, developers are still looking for breaches and other security issues on the network.

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About the author

Arman Shirinyan is a trader, crypto enthusiast and SMM expert with more than four years of experience.

Arman strongly believes that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain will be of constant use in the future. Currently, he focuses on news, articles with deep analysis of crypto projects and technical analysis of cryptocurrency trading pairs.