{"id":78097,"date":"2018-04-28T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/myetherwallet-users-report-stolen-funds-after-an-amazon-dns-attack-update"},"modified":"2018-04-28T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:22:24","slug":"myetherwallet-users-report-stolen-funds-after-an-amazon-dns-attack-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/myetherwallet-users-report-stolen-funds-after-an-amazon-dns-attack-update","title":{"rendered":"MyEtherWallet users report stolen funds after an Amazon DNS attack [Update]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/myetherwallet-users-report-stolen-funds-after-an-amazon-dns-attack-update.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems popular cryptocurrency wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myetherwallet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MyEtherWallet<\/a> is having issues. A litany of concerned users are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ethereum\/comments\/8ek86t\/warning_myetherwalletcom_highjacked_on_google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reporting<\/a> their wallets have suddenly been drained out \u2013 without any notification or action on their side.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected withdrawals have caused many netizens to suspect that MyEtherWallet has been hacked. Despite speculation though, the issue might have to do with with a glitch in Google\u2019s Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Hard Fork, MyEtherWallets reps clarified that the popular app \u201cis not hacked.\u201d Instead, the company claims that the unusual activity \u201cwas a DNS attack on Google DNS servers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2018\/04\/24\/myetherwallet-mew-suffers-dns-attack-user-funds-stolen\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2018\/04\/24\/myetherwallet-mew...ds-stolen\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems popular cryptocurrency wallet MyEtherWallet is having issues. A litany of concerned users are reporting their wallets have suddenly been drained out \u2013 without any notification or action on their side. The unexpected withdrawals have caused many netizens to suspect that MyEtherWallet has been hacked. Despite speculation though, the issue might have to do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78097","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}