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MyEtherWallet Warns of [Another] Hack, Urges Hola Users to Move Funds

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Dissent

CCN reports:

Popular Ethereum wallet interface and token wallet MyEtherWallet is – yet again – at the center of a significant security breach and has warned its users utilizing a popular VPN to move their funds.

MyEtherWallet (MEW) is now reeling from its second major security compromise in under three months after claiming hackers compromised Hola, a free virtual private network (VPN) service, for a five-hour period that may have left Google Chrome users’ crypto wallets compromised for merely having installed the Hola extension.

The security compromise may have enabled hackers to monitor users’ activity if they had used their MEW wallets during the time period, the company warned, urging users to move their funds out of their existing wallets – if they still have access to their tokens.

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