{"id":21850,"date":"2022-04-19T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:05:37","slug":"hackers-steal-655k-after-picking-metamask-seed-from-icloud-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/hackers-steal-655k-after-picking-metamask-seed-from-icloud-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Steal $655k After Picking MetaMask Seed From iCloud Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_0\" data-ar-index=\"0\">MetaMask has warned Apple iOS users not to store the seeds of cryptocurrency wallets in Apple&#8217;s iCloud when the app data backup is active.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">A seed is a secret recovery phrase that consists of 12 words that protect access to the contents of your wallet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">Storing the wallet\u00a0seed in iCloud means a user&#8217;s digital assets are at risk once their Apple account is compromised.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"3\">To prevent access to digital assets once an Apple account is compromised, users are advised to exclude MetaMask from iCloud backups by going to Settings &gt; Profile &gt; iCloud &gt; Manage Storage &gt; Backups.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">Users should not reveal their two-factor authentication code to anyone as officials would never ask for it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">It is equally important that crypto users keep their assets securely in a cold wallet if they are not actively trading them instead of the MetaMask hot wallet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"6\">The warning from MetaMask came after a MetaMask user lost more than $650k to hackers in a phishing attack.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_8\" data-ar-index=\"8\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-steal-655k-after-picking-metamask-seed-from-icloud-backup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BleepingComputer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetaMask has warned Apple iOS users not to store the seeds of cryptocurrency wallets in Apple&#8217;s iCloud when the app data backup is active. A seed is a secret recovery phrase that consists of 12 words that protect access to the contents of your wallet. Storing the wallet\u00a0seed in iCloud means a user&#8217;s digital assets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[388,393],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-privacy-security","tag-security-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21852,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions\/21852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}