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.

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        10 months ago

        People can make mistakes with everything. It’s just about reducing the probability of making the mistake.

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        10 months ago

        That’s LastPass. That company has been plagued with security issues for years. Password managers as a whole aren’t anywhere close to what they are.

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      10 months ago

      Depends on the password manager. With something like KeePassXC, only you have the encrypted passwords file and it’s not on some server.

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        10 months ago

        Nope no never absolutely not.

        Just a couple weeks ago I saw a thread where keepass was the culprit.

        NEVER USE A PASSWORD MANAGER

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              10 months ago

              You went from saying “absolutely never use a password manager” and further down the thread you say you’re using your foreskin.

              Now you’re back tracking that all to pretend to be right?

              That’s absurd!

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          10 months ago

          You can just store a copy of keepass along with your file on a USB and access it that way, never has not be online.

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          10 months ago

          KeePass DB is vulnerable if they can crack the master password. If your master password has enough entropy that it would take so many million years to brute force, then you’ll be fine.

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              10 months ago

              Anything can be cracked this way, this is just a bruteforce of the master password. It can take 300 centuries to crack using NSA servers if it’s a strong password.

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              10 months ago

              That link describes hashcat which uses some of the methods I’m referring to, it’s dependent on the password quality. Crappy password will be quick.

              It doesn’t decrypt it, but tries many combinations of words etc encrypted to compare against the hash.

              Even with a good password, I never would want anyone storing seeds in keepass, anything on the computer is a no for storing seeds.

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      10 months ago

      They are generally secure. Any hack on them has never gotten clear text passwords.

      LastPass seems to be the one who gets hacked the most and I use that term very lightly because it’s usually just user emails

      Which don’t get me wrong is bad because then you can be at Target of spearfishing but you should not shy away from using a password manager because at the end of the day if you use it correctly it’s going to be more secure than whatever you’re doing now

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      10 months ago

      Being “secure” is relative. Would I store my Facebook password there? Sure. Would I store the password to my life savings there? Definitely not.

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      10 months ago

      no

      you might have a key logger on your pc, so the password manager is uselss

      never enter a seed phrase into a computer, always write them down fromm a hw wallet

      there is no real secure option for pc only unless you formatted, linux distro, crypto wallet software install with no internet, create the wallet, write the seed phrase down, format the drive / never use it again

      hw wallets just make this brain dead easy though, why is this still a conversation in 2023?