Smartphone text prediction guesses crypto hodler’s seed phrase - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
Seed phrases, a random combination of words from the BIP 39 list of 2048 words, act as one of the primary layers of security against unauthorized access to a user‘s crypto holdings. But what happens when your ’smart‘ phone’s predictive typing remembers and suggests the words next time you try to access your digital wallet? Andre, a 33-year-old IT professional from Germany, recently nai-post on the r/CryptoCurrency subreddit after discovering his mobile phones ability to predict the entire recovery seed phrase as soon as he typed down the first word. As 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 out of 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.” Speaking to Cointelegraph, Andre, a.k.a. u/Divinux on Reddit, shared his shock when he first experienced his phone literally guessing the (12-24 word) seed phrase — “First I was stuned – the first couple words could be a coincidence, right?” As a tech-savvy