How to prevent wallet stolen?

The essence of anti-theft is to prevent mnemonics and private keys from being leaked or stolen by hackers, so you need to be more careful when storing mnemonics and private keys. Once the mnemonic (private key) is stolen by a third party, your asset is also losing its protection. It is recommended that you use physical medium for backup: print it out and keep it properly. When transcribing, please pay attention to the order of the mnemonic (private key), and whether it can be stored for a long time, please remember to prevent problems such as unclear handwriting.

In addition, do not use mobile phone screenshots, photos, or WeChat, QQ, email, mobile phone memos to store mnemonic phrases, Keystore or plaintext private keys, once your phone been stolen, your will also lost your private keys.

In terms of anti-theft policy, the focus of Keystore and mnemonic (private key) are different:

As the encrypted private key, the content of the Keystore is also encrypted, so it is not very scientific to adopt the backup strategy of copying. It is recommended that you store the Keystore in your own U disk, try not to store it online or in the cloud, and store it separately from the password. , so that even if it is stolen by hackers, it is difficult to crack the wallet account without the password.