MythMyEtherWallet warns users of the hacked Hola application
Hola is a free VPN service with over 8 million installs and a 4.9 star rating.
Specifically, the MEW side posted the following on their Twitter:
"URGENT! If you have installed the Hola extension on a Chrome browser and have used your MEW wallet for the last 24 hours, please immediately transfer your funds to a brand new account!
We have received reports that Hola has been hacked for about 5 hours and this attack is to record your activity on MEW. "
I think myetherwallet is not safe, because recently MEW was frequently visited by hackers and the incident four months ago had total 216 ETH stolen after some DNS servers were taken over and controlled. That leads the user to a fake website
I don't understand, it is Hola extension that has been exploited to steal your MEW account? So its more of a problem on Hola extension as far as I know. MEW is safe if you know how to protect your account. That's why you have to be very careful and it seems that they are very active in giving us warning. If you are not comfortable using it, then you might want to give other wallets a try. But thanks for the warning though. I don't used Hola extension, btw.
Yes, I also agree with you that if you know how to protect your myetheraccount, then your funds are safe in the wallet but if you don't, you can keep them in some other wallets but the fact that they gave a very good warning is also very good to prevent loss of funds.