Guys, have you seen this post?
Someone said they connected to free WiFi at Singapore airport, just for a few minutes, and 3.7 $BNB was transferred straight out of their wallet. The account hadn’t been active for months. Even CZ reposted it and asked, “Just connecting to WiFi wouldn’t be enough, right? Did something else happen in between?”
I’ll say it outright: this is pure hype. They’re desperate to make headlines.
The principle is simple: blockchain transactions work the same no matter what network you’re on. Your wallet’s private key signs the transaction locally, and then the signed transaction is broadcast. If you merely connect to WiFi, the network provider can only see your internet traffic. It can’t access the private key stored on your phone, let alone sign a transaction for you. Unless your phone already had malware installed, you’d previously clicked a phishing link and entered your seed phrase, or the wallet app itself was fake. In any of those three cases, your coins would be at risk whether or not you connected to that WiFi.
The timing is even more suspicious: “No transactions for months, then the moment they connect to WiFi, the coins are gone.” What are the odds? If airport WiFi could really steal crypto, Singapore airport would be hacker headquarters for the whole world, and CZ would’ve issued a security warning long ago.
And honestly, who goes out of their way to connect to airport WiFi that makes you go through a login page and approve a bunch of permissions? When I travel abroad, I just turn on roaming or buy a local SIM. Apart from looking up a map, I wouldn’t even open my wallet app on public WiFi.
So don’t get swept up in the hype. Most likely, they exposed their private key through their own mistake and are blaming the WiFi to get some attention.
What do you think? Would anyone really connect to free airport WiFi and then open their wallet?
$BNB #区块链安全 #钱包被盗 #Crypto
Someone said they connected to free WiFi at Singapore airport, just for a few minutes, and 3.7 $BNB was transferred straight out of their wallet. The account hadn’t been active for months. Even CZ reposted it and asked, “Just connecting to WiFi wouldn’t be enough, right? Did something else happen in between?”
I’ll say it outright: this is pure hype. They’re desperate to make headlines.
The principle is simple: blockchain transactions work the same no matter what network you’re on. Your wallet’s private key signs the transaction locally, and then the signed transaction is broadcast. If you merely connect to WiFi, the network provider can only see your internet traffic. It can’t access the private key stored on your phone, let alone sign a transaction for you. Unless your phone already had malware installed, you’d previously clicked a phishing link and entered your seed phrase, or the wallet app itself was fake. In any of those three cases, your coins would be at risk whether or not you connected to that WiFi.
The timing is even more suspicious: “No transactions for months, then the moment they connect to WiFi, the coins are gone.” What are the odds? If airport WiFi could really steal crypto, Singapore airport would be hacker headquarters for the whole world, and CZ would’ve issued a security warning long ago.
And honestly, who goes out of their way to connect to airport WiFi that makes you go through a login page and approve a bunch of permissions? When I travel abroad, I just turn on roaming or buy a local SIM. Apart from looking up a map, I wouldn’t even open my wallet app on public WiFi.
So don’t get swept up in the hype. Most likely, they exposed their private key through their own mistake and are blaming the WiFi to get some attention.
What do you think? Would anyone really connect to free airport WiFi and then open their wallet?
$BNB #区块链安全 #钱包被盗 #Crypto