METAMASK

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"I'm fairly new to the crypto space. I wasnt aware that you could integrate the MM and Trezor wallets together. I know now."

"So the unthinkable has happened. I purchased multiple Strongblock nodes and my Metamask Wallet was hacked. I know that Strongblock will NOT allow the nodes to be switched to another wallet, so what should I do at this point?? Need less to say I will be discarding that wallet, but first is there ANY way I can route the node rewards to me? Should I try and claim the rewards and when they hit the MM wallet, switch them to another wallet real quick in hopes that the hacker won't notice. I mean, at this point the most that could happen is it doesn't go through, which will be the same position I'm in if I don't try at all."

"I really hate that StrongBlock, with all their technological savvy, doesnt have that you can move nodes between wallets. And I still cannot figure out how I ended up on a fake site. I see everywhere that the url for the MM chrome extension is 'metamask.io' and that's exactly what I put in. I'm so disgusted with this whole thing."

"My plan was to claim by rewards at the end of every month. Would you suggest I chance it and try to claim the rewards (if they're still there) at some point and quickly move the rewards to a secure wallet?"

"The reason strongblock doesnt allow wallet node transfers is because if you are hacked, the hacker could steal your nodes as well."

"Also you called them strongnode in the second paragraph, which is a different scam site modeled to look like strongblock, that may be what happened to you"

"There is no "chance" of migrating a compromised wallet's nodes to the right place, because if your wallet is compromised via seed phrase, the scammer would immediately take the nodes just like they take the earnings. Why wouldn't they?"

"David has said they're working on a validation process for node transfers, but given the anonymous and decentralized nature of crypto, this is VERY tricky. and the team has a lot to work on."

"I'm deeply sorry this happened to you, it's many of our worst nightmare. The best practice is NEVER relinquish your seed phrase to anyone for ANY reason, and to ALWAYS manually type in URLs. Bes of luck moving forward"

"To be honest, I'm actually not 100% sure. I went to metamask.io to download the Chrome extension, which I was told is the right site. It asked me for the seed phrase. Some are saying I was supposed to be asked for it, some are saying I wasn't. Anyway, the site appeared to be legit so I entered the phrase. I thought that since I'd never used Metamask on my computer that it was trying to authenticate the account. The next day the hacker drained my account."

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Reddit user Khamil1 reports that their MetaMask account was breached. This included a Strongblock which they weren't able to transfer to another wallet. The amount of the loss is unknown.

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