Risk of theft is always there while storing your assets whether they are in any form. They may be in the form of fiat currency, cryptocurrency, gold or any other form. It's always an issue to protect them because thieves come with new ideas and new form to steal your assets. But if you are alert for the threat and do all the necessary steps, then it's possible to protect it as the crypto company Komodo has done.

Komodo is a crypto wallet provider, they were alert for the security of users account. They knew that a malware or hackers activities is going to hack their accounts. They have done the necessary steps and protect their wallets from being hacked. With this activity they were able to protect approx $13 Million of different users. Telling the details of whole activity Komodo said that: “We were able to sweep around 8 million KMD and 96 BTC from these vulnerable wallets, which otherwise would have been easy pickings for the attacker.”

According to NPM: “After being notified by our internal security tooling of this threat we responded by notifying and coordinating with Komodo to protect their users as well as remove the malware from npm.”

So it shows early prevention and on time response can protect from a big loss. Komodo has done the on-time action and protects themselves and their users from a big loss.