Occasionally, projects
themselves fall prey to malicious actors, an occurrence that was noted in the Parity hack which took funds away from projects, such as AEternity, Swarm City, and Edgeless Casino.
There remains a high chance of
falling prey to malicious wallets resembling the original.
Very recently a major South Korean crypto exchange known as Bithumb had
fallen prey to the malicious attack of hackers in June causing investors to lose millions of funds.