The cryptocurrencies wallet Electrum was hacked and lost 250 bitcoins.

According to Bleeping Computer, the BTC wallet app Electrom accused a phishing product called Electrum Pro of stealing a user's seed key on May 9 on GitHub and registering a domain name called electrum without Electrum's permission. The Electrum team noted that there was a piece of code indicating that the counterfeit product might have taken the user's seed key and uploaded it to the electrum. Affected users should transfer funds from BTC URLs managed by Eletrum Pro.

The Healthy Security Lab is concerned that Nearly 250 bitcoins have been stolen in a recent hacking attack on an Electrum wallet. This attack, confirmed by Electrum, involves creating a fake version of the wallet to trick users into providing password information. Electrum responded on Twitter that it was an ongoing phishing attack on Electrum users and advised them to download wallets from the official website.

September 19 (Xinhua) -- Users of Bitcoin wallet Electrum are facing a phishing attack, according to the Health Security Lab. Hackers broadcast messages to the Electrum client through a malicious server, prompting the user to update to v4.0.0, and if the user follows the prompt to install this "backdoor-carrying client", the private key is stolen and all digital assets are stolen.

The world-renowned Bitcoin wallet Electrum "update phishing" currency theft continues.

Note: Electrum-XZC is derived from Electrum and uses different seed phrase criteria, so it cannot be imported.

On import cli_wallet automatically generates one or two backup files that can be deleted.

Bitcoin desktop wallet client Electrum has released a 4.0 beta version, adding several important updates, including support for the Lightning network, nearly a year after the previous version of Electrum, 3.3.8 (last July). In the 4.0 beta version, Electrum mainly added features such as PSBT (partially signed Bitcoin transactions), Lightning Network, watchtowers (暸 watchtowers) and Submarineswaps (subliminal switching). (Github.

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It's important to transfer the BTC from your original Electrum wallet (to a new Electrum wallet, a new wallet generated by a new monemone, and back it up), which is important to prevent possible BTC loss.