Rogue MEGA Chrome Extension Stole Passwords and Crypto Keys

Rogue MEGA Chrome Extension Stole Passwords and Crypto Keys

 
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A rogue version of file-hosting platform MEGA's Chrome extension has triggered a major security alert from the company. The variant was able to steal user credentials for sites including Amazon, Live.com, Github.com and Google's webstore, in addition to private keys to cryptocurrency wallets. MEGA is investigating how its Chrome webstore account was compromised.

Founded by Kim Dotcom in 2013, the MEGA file-hosting site was an overnight success, attracting hundreds of thousands of users in a matter of hours.

The platform launched on a wave of concerns over Internet snooping so with tight encryption and privacy as a policy, it went on to become a roaring success. Now, however, it’s reporting a serious breach that affects a currently unknown number of users.

“On 4 September 2018 at 14:30 UTC, an unknown attacker uploaded a trojaned version of MEGA’s Chrome extension, version 3.39.4, to the Google Chrome webstore,” the company reports.

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Comment by Frederick Gyorgy Shwartz. on September 7, 2018 at 7:53am

He looks like a bloke that knows how to have a good time :)

Comment by cheeki kea on September 7, 2018 at 7:49am

Kims holed up somewhere down in the snow, so I guess he wont be making a statement about it for awhile. 

Comment by Frederick Gyorgy Shwartz. on September 5, 2018 at 8:17pm
Comment by Frederick Gyorgy Shwartz. on September 5, 2018 at 8:16pm

KIm .com warned everyone it was compromised when the NZ government took a controling share in the tech, christ that was ages ago

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