After realizing the possible impact of this information if it went out to the wrong hands, “I thought I should tell people about it. The first couple of words could be a coincidence, right?”Īs a tech-savvy individual, the German crypto investor was able to reproduce the scenario wherein his mobile phone could accurately predict the seed phrases. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Andre - known as u/Divinux on Reddit - shared his shock when he first experienced his phone accurately guessing the 12–24 word seed phrase. But what happens when your “smart” phone’s predictive typing remembers and suggests the words next time you try to access your digital wallet?Īndre, a 33-year-old IT professional from Germany, recently posted on the r/CryptoCurrency subreddit after discovering his mobile phone’s ability to predict his entire recovery seed phrase as soon as he typed down the first word.Īs a fair warning to fellow Redditors and crypto enthusiasts, Andre’s post highlighted the ease with which hackers can use the feature to drain a user’s funds just by being able to type the first word from the BIP 39 list: “This makes it easy to attack, get your hands on a phone, start any chat app, and start typing any words off the BIP39 list, and see what the phone suggests.” Seed phrases, a random combination of words from the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol (BIP) 39 list of 2,048 words, act as one of the primary layers of security against unauthorized access to a user’s crypto holdings.
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