I hope this message finds you well. I’m writing on behalf of users whose Linea wallets have been compromised, including myself. After dedicating significant time and effort to Linea, including onboarding over 1,000 users via testnets and mainnet, it was disheartening to discover my wallet was compromised, likely due to the LummaC2 virus.
Based on my survey, I have found that over 30,000 wallets on Linea may have been compromised. I would like to suggest a solution to help these affected users: allowing them to change their wallet address before claiming rewards through a robust Discord verification process. This could involve submitting linked information (e.g., Gmail, Discord) and sending a verification link to the Gmail account associated with the wallet.
This process would ensure that users’ hard-earned LXPs aren’t claimed by hackers. A similar approach was recently taken by the Story Protocol to help their compromised users. By prioritizing your day-one users and offering a clear path to security, you would strengthen the community’s trust and loyalty.
I sincerely hope you will consider this suggestion and provide affected users with the opportunity to recover their assets in a secure and fair manner.
So now the “solution” is to let compromised wallets be changed without questioning why so many of them were running in ADS Power? Convenient.
You claim to have onboarded 1,000+ users, yet somehow your main concern is wallets used for mass farming getting a second chance. 30,000 compromised wallets? That’s an absurd number, and we both know the reality most of these weren’t individual users, they were part of a large-scale Sybil operation.
The team is making sure rewards go to real participants, not serial abusers. If you were genuinely involved, you’d be pushing for better security practices, not loopholes to reassign wallets after getting caught.
Its a bit more complicated that verification processes. This is because if a scammer has access to a compromised wallet, they’re also able to take advantage of various approaches.
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Story tried to lend a helping hand in this case and were spammed within a few hours. It is obvious that this will only cause difficulties and damage to Linea
The fact you all are talking about this like as if those that got compromised are Sybil is very funny, you are talking like as if you are not a web3 user.
Linea team is working very tirelessly on catching those Sybil’s, why do you think anyone among those that sybilled will be left out, even if it happened such wallet is compromised?
Let’s be honest and think like humans, I got compromised and only farmed with a single wallet, but you are just concerned about your pocket and selfish about your own interest.
You can get compromised as well, that’s just how wild the space is. So, erase the mindset that every compromised users are sybills… Think like human ffs .
Let’s see how they gonna handle it, give an hacker an edge to claim from many community wallets and dump ASAP or give the user and edge to claim what they worked hard for!
I’m also against Sybil and any user found to have been a Sybil deserve to be blacklisted, simple!
Cut the emotional guilt-tripping. No one is denying that some real users got compromised, but let’s not ignore the obvious ADS Power and mass farming were rampant, and now suddenly, 30,000 wallets are ‘compromised’? That’s not bad luck; that’s a pattern.
Security in Web3 is your responsibility. If you couldn’t protect your keys, that’s unfortunate, but it doesn’t mean the system should bend over backwards to fix your mistakes. Letting wallets be changed post-compromise opens the floodgates for abuse. Linea filtering Sybils is exactly why this loophole shouldn’t exist. Web3 is built on accountability act like it.
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