The crypto wallet team reported receiving approximately 5,000 reports, while the number of compromised addresses is only 2,596. This means that thousands of wallet users, unaffected by the exploit, are attempting to obtain funds fraudulently.

The company's CEO, Eowyn Chen, released an update regarding the browser extension incident, which resulted in the wallet's users losing $7 million. She clarified that an internal investigation identified 2,596 compromised addresses, with approximately 5,000 reimbursement requests received. As a result, Trust Wallet developers were forced to take additional measures, specifically requesting identity verification from potential victims.

Chen reiterated that the investigation and compensation are the company's top priorities and urged all team members to actively pursue this task.

As a reminder, the hack occurred on December 25 after Trust Wallet released version 2.68 of its Chrome browser extension, which contained malicious code disguised as an analytics module. When users opened their wallets or entered seed phrases, the hidden code transferred this data to a fake domain (metrics-trustwallet.com), registered just a few days before the release of the new version. The hackers then gained access to the seed phrases and withdrew users' funds.