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Re: Electrum wallet user Lost $16M in Bitcoin.
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NVZNtoken
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02/09/2020, 15:06:24 UTC
Quote from: BitSat19 on August 31, 2020, 10:52:22 AM
An Electrum wallet user claims to have lost a fortune in bitcoin after installing an older version of the software from a malicious source.
https://www.coindesk.com/loses-16m-bitcoin-crypto-install-malicious-electrum-wallet?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
That's a huge loss but installing wallet from a malicious source (and we should always assume that any source but the official website is malicious) is just asking for trouble.