Case period: 2025-12-24 to 2025-12-26. This article is a retrospective review.
Historical incident, updated report
Trust Wallet's community report was published on 30 December 2025 and updated on 17 July 2026. It describes a malicious version 2.68 of its browser extension published through Chrome's distribution channel on 24 December 2025, outside the company's normal release process. The stated exposure window concerns users who logged into that extension during 24–26 December.
Keep the product scope precise
The report identifies a particular browser-extension version. It does not say that every mobile installation or every version of Trust Wallet was affected. Its discussion of how publishing credentials were obtained should be read with the investigative qualifications in the source, rather than as a fully settled account of every intrusion step.
The practical lesson
When a vendor publishes an incident notice, compare the product, version and use period with your own records before choosing a response. Obtain remediation instructions directly from the official notice, not a search advertisement or unsolicited support account. Preserve relevant transaction identifiers and the extension version if available. This retrospective does not determine whether a specific reader's wallet was exposed, and updating software alone cannot undo a secret that was already disclosed.
Source and review date
Trust Wallet — original source. Source published: 2025-12-30. Source updated: 2026-07-17. Source checked: 2026-10-23.
This is an original Wallet Beep editorial summary. Consult the linked source for its full context and any later updates.