#私钥与助记词被盗 It's another familiar story repeating itself. When I saw the Trust Wallet incident this time, what flashed through my mind were the hacks of exchanges in 2017, the private key leak scandals in 2018, and the Ronin bridge incident in 2022... The cycle changes, the methods evolve, but the essence remains the same—the most vulnerable link is always the centralized component.

The most heartbreaking part of this Christmas heist isn't the $6 million figure itself, but the illusion it exposes: self-custody wallets = absolute security. Wrong. When browser extensions are tampered with, when deployment permissions are hijacked, your seed phrase and passwords are like being kept in a transparent glass house. Attackers use legitimate tools like PostHog as cover, directly modify the source code, and carry out a meticulously planned APT attack. This shows that the attacker had already gained control of internal permissions—another dimension of risk.

I've seen too many people in the crypto space suffer losses—some due to greed, some due to bad luck, but the most regrettable are those who trusted the wrong tools. As early as 2017, some repeatedly emphasized: don't keep coins on exchanges, self-manage private keys. Over ten years have passed, the principle hasn't changed, but people still repeat the same mistakes—whenever a tool becomes popular and gains users, they subconsciously lower their guard.

My current advice is straightforward: disconnect from the internet immediately for troubleshooting, export your private keys, switch wallets and transfer funds. But what I want to say goes deeper—every security incident is a form of screening. Those who have gone through these events truly understand what self-custody responsibility means. Those who survive the big waves are often not just lucky, but cautious enough.

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Remember this lesson.