MetaMask’s security team is looking into the root cause of the attack
The team claims that it is not a MetaMask-specific exploit.
Claims that a vulnerability in the MetaMask crypto wallet was responsible for a “massive wallet draining operation” that stole more than 5,000 Ether have been refuted by the wallet’s developer.
Taylor Monahan, the founder of Ethereum wallet manager MyCrypto, published a series of updates on April 17 detailing how an unnamed wallet-draining hack has stolen over $10.5 million in cryptocurrencies and NFTs since December 2022. This prompted a tweetstorm from MetaMask on April 18.
The team stated:
“Recent reporting on [Monahan’s] thread has incorrectly claimed that a massive wallet-draining operation is a result of a MetaMask exploit. This is incorrect. This is not a MetaMask-specific exploit.”
Exploit Not Limited to MetaMask Wallets
The wallet service stated the 5,000 ETH was taken “from various addresses across 11 blockchains,” proving that
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