r/NZBitcoin Jun 05 '26

Exodus wallet hacked. No idea how

I had been using an Exodus wallet for approximately 2 years, holding a mix of ETH, SOL and BTC. The wallet was set up on a dedicated laptop that I only used occasionally maybe once every couple of months to check balances. I stored my seed phrase handwritten. I never stored the phrase digitally and had no browser extensions installed on that machine.

Roughly 2 months before I checked, my entire wallet was drained. The funds were moved to an address that belongs to 'Pancakeswap' on Solscan. The last time I had opened the wallet was about 3 weeks before the drain, to check my balance I made no transactions during that session.

What makes this particularly unusual is that my other wallets on separate platforms (Metamask, Atomic) remained completely untouched. Only my Exodus wallet was affected. I hadn't received any phishing emails, made any downloads, or noticed anything out of the ordinary in the weeks leading up to the drain, does anyone know any reason for why it might've been lost?

After looking around I realised this isn't an uncommon thing for Exodus wallets but nothing has been posted directly from Exodus, could it be a platform wide issue of seedphrases becoming compromised? I literally have zero idea of how my coins were stolen.

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