Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M • Hacker News Board

Re: Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Post by beng-nl » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #18

Somewhat related question. Anyone else using a crypto wallet as a way to detect intrusion?

Gosh, what an interesting canary.

Re: Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Post by addams » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

addams wrote: post #2

One of CZ's tweets hints at an insider threat, but Trust Wallet was one of the GitHub organizations pwned by Sha1 Hulud. What are the odds this is a fallout of that?

More or less confirmed: https://trustwallet.com/blog/announcements/trust-wallet-brow...

Re: Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Post by Psychoshy_bc1q » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #19

I'm sure users lost more than $7M over the last few weeks just by holding Bitcoin.

zoom out.

Re: Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Post by Giorgi » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 7:32 PM UTC

And they were pushing it so hard, can't even log in without ad splash

Re: Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

game_the0ry wrote: post #30

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The upside is that your property can't be confiscated by "centralized daddy." Really? Most crypto is not anonymous, it is at best pseudonymous. If a big enough government agency wants your crypto, they will get it.

It can be totally anonymous if you can use a non-KYC exchange way of acquiring it. And then again, you can buy monero or zcash, then buy bitcoin again. I could start up a new open source wallet on an air gapped machine, go to a local bitcoin meetup, and buy bitcoin for cash.

That's for a few dozen people in the world. For the billions that don't do this... It is not anonymous.