Rosenstein: Computer scientist drained via Discord link exposing clipboard history
Jason Rosenstein · A Top Computer Scientist Got Drained in Seconds From a Discord Link · Aug 30, 2022 · at 29:23
Portion founder Jason Rosenstein describes how an investor and computer scientist had their crypto wallet drained via a clipboard exploit.
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“One of my investors. That's how long ago, almost a year and a half ago, got hacked and they stole his portion tokens. And this is one of the most savvy computer scientists I know on the planet, man, a guy who would never get hacked. And what happened was he clicked on a link on discord. And by clicking on that link. The hacker was able to access everything that's ever been on his clipboard, everything he's ever copied, ok? And it just so happened that months ago, he copied and pasted his 12 word mnemonic, his keys, onto another MetaMask account, right?”
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