Your Status Wallet and profile share the same recovery phrase. While your profile and wallet are protected by your Status password, anyone who has your recovery phrase can log in to your profile and wallet even without your password.
If you think someone else has access to your wallet (for example, you see transactions in your history that you don't recognize, you should create a new Status profile and transfer your crypto to your new Wallet.
Start with creating a new Status profile. You can use multiple profiles at the same time, so you're not losing access to your current profile. For more details on how to create an extra profile, check out Create and use additional Status profiles.
If you're on your compromised Status profile, switch to your new one. For more details on how to do that, check out Create and use additional status profiles.
- 1From the navigation sidebar, click.Wallet
- 2Click.Receive
- 3Select your legacy address and click.Copy address
- 4
- 5From the navigation sidebar, click.Wallet
- 6Click.Send
- 7Select the asset you want to send and paste the address in your new Status Wallet into thefield. ClickTo. Repeat these steps for every account you still have crypto or collectibles in.Send
You can remove your compromised profile from your profile list to avoid confusing it with your new one. For more details on how to do that, check out Remove a Status profile from your profile list.