THELOGICALINDIAN - MyEtherWallet MEW has reportedly been the victim of a DNS drudge on a day back Google appears to be accepting some issues Social media and online crypto forums are ample with letters that acknowledge funds accept been baseborn from the wallet of some users Other users who ability accept logged into the account during the aeon of the drudge may accept additionally been compromised
A MEW user broke the annual on Reddit adage that 0.09 ETH (about $65) had been baseborn from his/her account. The user had allegedly collapsed victim to a phishing betray based on a DNS exploit. The afflicted user additionally appear that aloft visiting the site, the notification appeared that the affiliated was not secured. This is an aberration for a account like MEW and an adumbration that all was not well. The user abandoned the warning, entered his/her capacity and in 10 seconds, the bill were stolen.
MEW isn’t the alone Ethereum-based account to accept been afraid via a DNS exploit. Etherdelta was additionally afraid in December 2024. Many experts accept this abnormality is due to the vulnerability created by the attendance of a distinct point of abortion in such services.
MEW has since confirmed the hack via Twitter. An Ethereum abode possibly affiliated to the drudge has been identified. The abode has already been tagged on Etherscan under suspicions of actuality involved in the hack. According to Etherscan, the tagged abode conducted 180 affairs during the hack, burglary 215 ETH ($150,000) in the process. Comments on addition Reddit post claim that MEW has traced the drudge to a Russian IP address.
MyCrypto, a MEW battling account has also confirmed the DNS hack. The belvedere acquaint a cheep announcement that MEW user accounts accept been compromised. In what seems can be apparent beneath than attenuate schadenfreude, the MyCrypto aggregation is giving out all the capacity of the problem. It will be recalled that a absinthian altercation amid MEW founders is what led to the breakaway of MyCrypto from MEW.
There accept been letters of problems with the Google DNS account today, April 24. Binance posted a tweet in the aboriginal hours of the day, cogent users that Google DNS was experiencing problems. Apparently, users of the belvedere had been afflicted by account disruptions. There is no adumbration of a affiliation amid the Google DNS disruption and the MEW DNS hack. However, a cheep acquaint by CobraBitcoin alluded to a possible link between the two incidents.
Edit: While autograph this article, MEW posted a tweet saying that the affair had been resolved.
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