Last night, I received a voice message from an old fan, trembling with emotion: "Bro, three million... it's gone. Just because I asked my wife to help transfer some money."
Having been in this circle for eight years, I have seen countless people flip due to greed. But this time is different—pure negligence has led to disaster.
Here's the thing: Before his business trip, he took the easy route and sent a screenshot of his wallet's mnemonic phrase to his wife via WeChat, asking her to help transfer some assets. When he landed and opened the wallet, the balance showed "0". All the money had evaporated.
Going to the police station, the officer shook his head after reading the record: "This is caused by the family’s operation, it will be treated as a civil dispute, no criminal case can be established." His wife cried so hard that she couldn't speak, repeatedly saying: "I just pasted the mnemonic phrase, I didn't even touch the transfer button!"
The real reason is frightening. After checking his wife's phone, he found that the Android device that had been used for four years was still connected to the home WiFi that hadn't changed its password for three years, and the browser still had the "Financial Assistant" plugin that was popular during the last year's money-making craze.
It's this seemingly harmless plugin that has been secretly monitoring the clipboard in the background. The moment the mnemonic phrase is copied, the data is sent to the hacker's server. At the moment she logged into the wallet, three million in digital assets were transferred away at lightning speed, leaving no transaction record behind.
Similar things happen two or three times every month. This is not alarmist—many people are completely unaware that the risks in this circle are never just in the fluctuations of the K-line.
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MetaverseVagrant
· 11-26 23:35
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BlockchainNewbie
· 11-24 08:51
Wow, three million just disappeared like that? That thing called a mnemonic phrase is really almost like running naked.
Android phone plus a three-year-old wifi combined with malicious plugins, this combination is simply a gift for hackers. Luckily, I'm cautious enough.
How is this guy going to explain to his wife when he gets home? Even the police are shaking their heads at this.
Really, I have people around me who have also fallen for this, one mistake can make you wise for ten years.
That thing called a mnemonic phrase is even more critical than a Private Key, it’s almost like running naked with the vault key online.
What does this tell us? A seemingly simple copy and paste carries risks that you can’t even imagine behind it.
Damn, this plugin is really malicious. It peeks into the clipboard from the background, and this Hacker technique is indeed extraordinary.
So, the security of a Wallet can be so easily breached, what dreams of the crypto world can we still talk about?
This guy must regret it so much, a small oversight could lead to ruin.
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AirdropHunter007
· 11-24 08:33
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You really can't screenshot and pass on the mnemonic phrase... losing three million like this is too painful.
This plugin is amazing, the trick of stealing the clipboard in the background is too ruthless.
Android + old wifi + inexplicable plugin, this combination is like giving away money.
I just want to ask how many people still have the same wifi password at home as back in the day...
This situation can indeed easily go wrong, we need to spread the word, brothers.
Last night, I received a voice message from an old fan, trembling with emotion: "Bro, three million... it's gone. Just because I asked my wife to help transfer some money."
Having been in this circle for eight years, I have seen countless people flip due to greed. But this time is different—pure negligence has led to disaster.
Here's the thing: Before his business trip, he took the easy route and sent a screenshot of his wallet's mnemonic phrase to his wife via WeChat, asking her to help transfer some assets. When he landed and opened the wallet, the balance showed "0". All the money had evaporated.
Going to the police station, the officer shook his head after reading the record: "This is caused by the family’s operation, it will be treated as a civil dispute, no criminal case can be established." His wife cried so hard that she couldn't speak, repeatedly saying: "I just pasted the mnemonic phrase, I didn't even touch the transfer button!"
The real reason is frightening. After checking his wife's phone, he found that the Android device that had been used for four years was still connected to the home WiFi that hadn't changed its password for three years, and the browser still had the "Financial Assistant" plugin that was popular during the last year's money-making craze.
It's this seemingly harmless plugin that has been secretly monitoring the clipboard in the background. The moment the mnemonic phrase is copied, the data is sent to the hacker's server. At the moment she logged into the wallet, three million in digital assets were transferred away at lightning speed, leaving no transaction record behind.
Similar things happen two or three times every month. This is not alarmist—many people are completely unaware that the risks in this circle are never just in the fluctuations of the K-line.