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Lost 17,000 $ of ETH due to hacked Metamask wallet

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Today I created a new account in my Metamask wallet, and then sent 7.73 ETH (~ 17,000 $ at the current price) from an exchange to it. The transaction went through (https://etherscan.io/tx/0x94ba0929f5b7fde43fcb1210664dd2e7335702b36c10435b988a5e15f5247d31) and the ETHs went into my account normally. But just 13 seconds later, they were automatically transfered to an unknown addresss out of my control (https://etherscan.io/tx/0x9956fe0a86aef0ff6252af023baa662e202353d3715befaa671ba5ff71669d14).

I carefully examined the recieving address (https://etherscan.io/address/0xc48c4e7339cc1f885bdd4ea624429b4039540fed), over the past 40 days it has many transactions like this. It seems like my Metamask wallet has been compromised and a bot or smart contract automatically made the transfer.

By searching on Reddit and the Metamask support page, many people have encountered the same problem, but no solution to it. (for example: https://community.metamask.io/t/metamask-automatically-sent-to-other-address-without-action-taken/6456οΌ›https://www.reddit.com/r/Metamask/comments/nmve45/funds_got_transferred_out_of_metamask_wallet/).

So I guess the money is lost forever. But is there anything we can do to prevention it happen again in the future?

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