Ethereum

damn just got $250k drained from one of my cold wallets

it's so cold there is no way of tracing how that happened

it isn't a large amount of money but i'm kind of dumbfounded by how this happened

can't put my finger on it

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There’s two possibilities:
- your hardware wallet was one of the ones that used poor entropy in generating a seed phrase and finally ended up in the carousel of wallets that got popped
- the grimmest possibility, one I’ve been warning about

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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I have a proof of concept that enhances Pollard's Rho such that it speeds up the search in solving the DLP. It's not a complete break, but if it were deployed at a large nation state scale, could crack a 256-bit ECC key (secp256k1, ed25519) in about a year.

Highly unlikely what hit Boro, but if it's not bad entropy,

#2 sounds cryptic to me as I must have missed your previous warnings. Could you please refresh everyone’s memory? This is important

Assuming you have the address(es) handy, taking a look at block explorers the wallet would have funds/data on is a first step. Next thing would be to confirm your wallet isn’t one that was affected by a vulnerability, by googling “<wallet vendor> vulnerability” and confirming your model isn’t in the list.

How to check my hardware wallet is doing good and funds are safe?