Ok yall, so my Metamask wallet was hacked back in December. I'd used it to buy and connect to some nodes. I now have someone trying to assist me with getting my nodes back and to do so, I have to re-add the Metamask extension to my wallet. Nervously, I started the process of connecting it again and it is asking me to enter my seed recovery phrase, which to my understanding is the 12-word phrase I got when I created the wallet, which was done on the mobile app. I went through this same process and this is the exact same thing I did when I was hacked before. Why doesn't Metamask just have it where I can go on a site and enter the login credentials that were created when I created the mobile app? Needless to say, I am terrified of doing this because I keep hearing NEVER INPUT YOUR SEED PHRASE, and right after following these same steps before (setting up the Chrome extension) I got hacked. And the site I was on before and am on now is metamask.io.
I am reaching out to you all for help on what exactly I'm supposed to be doing. I only have a limited time to check on my nodes, but to do so I have to involve this wallet, unfortunately.
Seed phrase is used to get full access to your wallet. And to restore it, of course. So, if you want to restore your Metamask wallet you have to use it - there is no other way, bro. But if you are telling us that your wallet was hacked before - what do you mean? Your previous wallet? Or this one?
This one was hacked. I have not created another Metamask wallet. I used the hacked one when buying nodes (I bought the nodes and was hacked the next day). So, I HAVE to use it to get back into the nodes. There's a fee that has to be paid or I loose all earned crypto that the nodes have been generating. You can only access the nodes through the wallet used to create them, and in this case it's the hacked MM wallet.