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Re:A Hacker Has Stolen $10M in Ethereum and No One Knows How by paulpauper on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:00PM (#35635497)
If I had to guess, cloud storage compromise or other hack.

or compromised entropy/key generation from older wallets

https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1648497998052347905

A lot of the users affected are keys from pre 2018. It's possible that there are bugs that went unnoticed.

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Re:A Hacker Has Stolen $10M in Ethereum and No One Knows How by zeroclick on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:11PM (#35635553)
I would guess the same .. I know I’ve taken photos of my seed phrases as a sort of hidden but not hidden backup.
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