With so many new participants in the crypto world, hackers and phishers are taking advantage of this. Fake links, leading to fake urls, where privat keys are then stolen. Always check the url, always.
yes, some times you have to check the official site url of MyEtherWallet to prevent bad things called phishing. should always check url MEW, must and it should be noticed.
thats why they always remind users to double checked the site url and if possible bookmarked the website to make sure that we are using the right one,
its our obligations to take care of our wallets private key or security key never ever entrust the information to anyone and never store it from some place
which hackers can see it.