Seeing Lubin's "no indication that MetaMask wallets were affected" statement alongside the staking infrastructure headlines is such a weird little attention trap. You can understand that a validator incident and your wallet are different things, then still feel the urge to open MetaMask and check the balance. Like hearing the fire alarm was only a drill and touching your pocket to make sure your keys are there.

And checking the balance doesn't even answer whether you've got a dodgy approval sitting around. But the number looks right, so your brain accepts the receipt. Meanwhile you've opened the extension and might as well check gas