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User Said Coinomi Wallet Sent Seed Phrase To Google

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Summary: According to cryptoglobe.com, multi-asset cryptocurrency wallet Coinomi has an important security vulnerability, security researchers said, it will send the user's seed phrase in plain text to a third-party server. Warth Al Maawali, the Twitter user who first discovered the vulnerability, claimed that he lost a lot of cryptocurrencies after adding the recovery phrase to Coinomi, ...

According to cryptoglobe.com, multi-asset cryptocurrency wallet Coinomi has an important security vulnerability, security researchers said, it will send the user's seed phrase in plain text to a third-party server. Warth Al Maawali, the Twitter user who first discovered the vulnerability, claimed that he lost a lot of cryptocurrencies after adding the recovery phrase to Coinomi, and he discovered the vulnerability. The vulnerability is that cryptocurrency wallet sent a user's seed phrase as non-encrypted plain text to Google for monitoring and debugging application HTTP/HTTPS traffic through spell checking.

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