{"id":244783,"date":"2026-10-02T05:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/metamask-discloses-security-incident-affecting-its-infrastructure"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:31:22","slug":"metamask-discloses-security-incident-affecting-its-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/metamask-discloses-security-incident-affecting-its-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"Metamask discloses security incident affecting its infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metamask-discloses-security-incident-affecting-its-infrastructure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has disclosed an ongoing infrastructure security incident affecting some of its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The company is working to address the issue internally, with help from external partners and security advisors, and says there is \u201cno immediate threat to MetaMask wallets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a precautionary measure, we are proactively exiting affected validators within our non-custodial staking operations, in coordination with clients and partners,\u201d MetaMask <a href=\"https:\/\/metamask.io\/news\/user-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">noted<\/a>. \u201cAs a reminder, our staking operations are non-custodial in nature and we do not manage withdrawal keys for stake on behalf of our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has disclosed an ongoing infrastructure security incident affecting some of its infrastructure. The company is working to address the issue internally, with help from external partners and security advisors, and says there is \u201cno immediate threat to MetaMask wallets.\u201d \u201cAs a precautionary measure, we are proactively exiting affected validators [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}