I lost $10,700 of wedding savings from my MetaMask wallet on Polygon

I lost $10,700 USDC from my MetaMask wallet on Polygon. This was not spare crypto money to me; it was money I had saved for more than two years toward my wedding.

The funds disappeared in minutes, leaving me physically sick and wondering whether the wedding will have to be postponed. I have the transaction record, but that does not undo the damage of watching savings vanish from a wallet I believed was safe.

Please keep only what you can afford to risk in a hot wallet and review every connection and transaction prompt. A wallet balance can disappear much faster than it takes to understand what happened.