{"id":74616,"date":"2023-02-24T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74616"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:09:44","slug":"edge-wallet-reports-leak-of-2000-private-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/edge-wallet-reports-leak-of-2000-private-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge Wallet reports leak of 2,000 private keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edge Wallet developers confirmed a leak of 2,000 private keys after a user reported it. The user said that the attacker stole Bitcoin, leaving other assets in the wallet untouched.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Urgent notice:<\/p>\n<p>We have identified a security vulnerability in Edge which has the potential to have affected a subset of users.<\/p>\n<p>All users should read the blog post linked below and take immediate action:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/soWkf8U17k\">https:\/\/t.co\/soWkf8U17k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edge (@EdgeWallet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdgeWallet\/status\/1628516647404437504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the investigation, the team confirmed the vulnerability \u2014 keys were copied in unencrypted form under certain buy\/sell options, with logs uploaded to Edge servers simultaneously. The developers stressed that the hacker did not actually gain access to the wallets, but compromised only the private key.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the issue affected less than 0.01% of the total keys created on the platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We have received very few reports from those affected, with total losses currently in the five-figure US dollars. On this basis, we believe the incident has a very limited scope and may be a targeted attack on specific users,&#8221; Edge Wallet said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The developers are continuing the investigation and are conducting a thorough examination of devices to determine whether malware could have gained access to unencrypted private keys on disk.<\/p>\n<p>Users were urged to upgrade to Edge 3.3.1.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-warns-of-api-key-leaks-on-3commas-platform\">a leak occurred<\/a> of API keys belonging to users of the platform for algorithmic trading of digital assets 3Commas.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was examined in detail by HAPI Labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge Wallet developers confirmed the leak of 2,000 private keys after a user reported it. The user said that the attacker stole Bitcoin, leaving other assets in the wallet untouched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1188,2336],"class_list":["post-74616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-data-breach","tag-edge-wallet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"54","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74618,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616\/revisions\/74618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}