I just got hit for a ton of eth 3 meta wallets drained. Anyone heard anything or could help point me in the right direction of what to do? No idea how they accessed my funds.
Another warning: do not use MetaMask or any browser extension wallet for anything other than screwing around or testing contracts. It is NOT secure.
My metamask also got drained a while back. likely they have got access to your PC and hacked your metamask key and logged the password when you typed on keyboard. Could have been a malicious program or email phishing. This is what happened to me anyway.
You had to give access. Bummer
I m so sorry to hear this. Revoke.cash to revoke given permissions is the only thing you could do. Consider your wallet burned and the money gone. There s no way to get your assets back once they get transferred out.
Define ton? 1k?
28K (13 ETH)
Where do people like OP get so much money from?
Is called work
To have the exact sum that OP had you either work or steal from someone else metamask
No problem. Just call Metamask customer service. They’ll happily fix things for you.
Oh wait… you’re your own bank. Never mind.
What are the addresses? And where was the ETH sent? If the hacker ever sends the ETH to an exchange, you might have a chance at getting it back. But first, you need to file a police report.
Here are one of many of the transactions 😭😭😭
0xe5e7266bf6abb1babf4024373957f04f0c7c61eb14670502acf2374a4ed4e8e6
Did you give away information about your keys, or signed some strange contract lately?
Some of the ETH was sent to another address. From there, it was sent to an address which may be associated with an exchange.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x813a690833ccf7e95f19754353a2d507d9cd73f9
its a legit exchange, the no kyc is a feature of it
Your funds are lost. This is in the very nature of the blockchain, transactions are irreversible. You’ve been scammed. Anyone claiming that can help you is another scammer trying to scam you again. Sorry for your loss - you need to move on.
start putting crypto devs in fucking prison and maybe this scourge will stop.
Hot wallets can be hacked at anytime. Always use a hardware wallet
This wasn’t a hack. This was doing something dumb, just like 99% of when people lose coins.
Unfortunately, that won’t change anything if you sign a bad smart contract.
You definitely turned on blind signing feature. It’s basically like how on every phone you have feature to turn on inorder to install third party apps that’d not from official sources as apks. But the crypto version blind signing
Crypto is bullshit. All the time it gets hacked. New controversy arises every day.
I’m sad to say but this kind of event does feed that narrative. Developers need to really work to eliminate this kind of threat if they want widespread adoption.
Not hacked, please do some reading…
Damn . That Sucks 🦫
Hacked money is usually gone for good.
The most valuable thing is to:
a) Find out how it happened and what you did wrong
b) Take actions in future to prevent it
Did you have a hardware wallet that requires you to physically approve transactions on the external device before metamask submits them? If not, that would be the first step. Trezor I prefer over Ledger, because Ledger’s lax security allows data leaks exposing us to scammer contacts and they had some other questionable plans.
Did you store your seed phrase somewhere secure and inaccessible to 3rd parties or internet?
Did you use a seed passphrase when setting up your wallet (13th word or 25th word) that require you to type that passphrase when doing a transaction?
These might sound like a pain, but they’re really pretty easy once you’ve done it once and it prevents malware from executing transactions on your PC without you physical approval.
if you had given access to your wallet to apps in the past to take part in their project s then there’s potential for them to have the ability to drain your wallet.
There have been some failed projects that resorted to do that.