Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
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Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

  • gila@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    It’s sad, but as a crypto user I’d be sketched out enough about using a centralised hot wallet app like Exodus in an official capacity, let alone entering my private key in something installed via a 3rd party app store. This probably happens on the Play Store a few times a week, and that’s on a bigger platform with a full security review process. It’s ultimately unavoidable.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    0·
    9 months ago

    Bitcoin is just a scam in general.

    “Bro, I’ll sell you this really complicated number. No one else has it.”

    “What can I do with it?”

    “Sell it for more money to a bigger fool than you.”

    "I’m in.*

    • RmDebArc_5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      “Bro, I’ll trade your food for this fancy piece of paper”

      “What can I do with it”

      “Trade it for more food with a bigger fool than you”

      “I’m in”

      (Not saying that you’re wrong, just your argument is stupid)

    • danielfgom@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      That’s is the genuine one. There is a genuine company called Exodus for Crypto. The problem is that a scammer made their own clone and nobody verified whether they really are from the Exodus company.

      If you check the manifest on Flathub you’ll see they verified it belongs to the real Exodus