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Perhaps that it’s news?
“Atomic Wallet has been apparently exploited, with users on Twitter reporting complete losses of their crypto portfolios.”
Is it? This looks like rumor-mongering based on a couple tweets.
"Several users on Twitter"
"A number of users have commented on the post reporting losses"
There is one firsthand tweet from someone saying he lost funds this week, one from someone who says he lost funds six months ago, and one from the wallet developer saying "We have received reports of wallets being compromised".
Are we talking a hundred, or are we talking five? As far as the sources go, we have two in six months.
How, exactly, do they come up with an adjective like "several" for this?
I'm as anti-cryptobro as the next guy, but let's put on our critical thinking caps for a minute. Where's the indication that something newsworthy happened here?
From the guidelines:
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This is a very shallow news story that gives no information on the technical nature of the hack or anything intellectual in the slightest.
As can be seen by the comments on this thread almost everything is low-brow commentary similar to what you'd see on a Facebook news story.
If people want to discuss crypto security and the merits of different approaches that would be an awesome discussion to have. Unfortunately it can't happen here any more because the only crypto related things that get upvoted are news stories about bad things happening and the more that happens the more intellectually curious people are driven away.