I specially registered for this.
DO NOT trust blockchain.info.
Someone was able to obtain my seed or private key or something through their doing. Just like this story.
I had authy 2FA and approval by mail set up, yet someone was able to clear my BTC balance on blockchain.
I know they used my private key or seed 'cause well .. i had a bigger ETH pile on my blockchain account.
It was clear as daylight when someone logged into my blockchain account that i indeed had ETH also.
But they didn't touch that one. Someone only cleared out my BTC balance.
Anyway .. my funds was transferred to an unknown address .. and their my BTC just sits idle ever since that
malicious transfer. I still look that address up from time to time. It only had 1 Tx .. being "my" stolen BTC.
So never again. Bought a ledger nano and i use only online official wallets (if no ledger nano support).
Kids .. don't be like Dimsdale .. keep your assets safe. Stay away from online wallets!
Topic: 0,04 Bitcoin stolen from Blockchain.info wallet (Read 610 times)
I don't understand, I've received today an email that someone from Taiwan for the first time today in a few years now. My funds are still there and nothing's been touched. This is starting to look really bad for the blockchain.info.
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
No one can get back the bitcoins once the transaction was confirmed so you must take care of your wallet.Next time store your bitcoins on hardware wallet it is the completely secured wallet for bitcoin.
The online web wallets are not fully secured hackers can access your wallet by using your private key they can get your private key by hacking into your system so next time store your private key in offline drive.And keep a hard password that no one can predict and never tell it to anyone,otherthan the most trustworthy person.
I am really sad to hear your story, even now with btc almost hitting 10k USD. That is worth 400 USD and it's a good money. I will never use blockchain.info for safety reasons. It's one of the biggest wallet in the internet and of course one of the most targeted to hack and stealing accounts. Did you share your private key to someone else or chose a weak password? Always enable 2FA from google or Authy. Those 2 apps have saved my life twice when I almost got hacked on Bittrex and Novaexchange.
I now changed my password for everything associated with it, cleaned my PC, changed the seed (phrase) and wrote it down on a piece of paper no other copy there.
Hopefully I will be save for what the hacked did not get away with.
So now you are using new blockchain.info wallet or you have just changed password for your old wallet there? Also don't use the same password you have used in your email and blockchain wallet anywhere else. Hopefully I will be save for what the hacked did not get away with.
If you want to feel more secure than I suggest you to use electrum or exodus like wallets where your encrypted wallet files doesn't leave your computer.
I now changed my password for everything associated with it, cleaned my PC, changed the seed (phrase) and wrote it down on a piece of paper no other copy there.
Hopefully I will be save for what the hacked did not get away with.
Hopefully I will be save for what the hacked did not get away with.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/psa-do-not-use-blockchaininfo-unless-you-know-your-shit-people-are-losing-2445605
I'm seeing reports of this everywhere. Really thinking of telling everyone to stop using blockchain.info for the time being. I don't think there's actually a software vulnerability, but a human error, where users are somehow installing malware that grabs the decrypted wallet file. I havent looked into it, but if the wallet is running using JavaScript, it's a strong possibility. JS runs on a sandboxed VM, which stops malware from accessing your computer. However, if defenitely doesn't stop malware from viewing the information inside the sandbox.
I'm seeing reports of this everywhere. Really thinking of telling everyone to stop using blockchain.info for the time being. I don't think there's actually a software vulnerability, but a human error, where users are somehow installing malware that grabs the decrypted wallet file. I havent looked into it, but if the wallet is running using JavaScript, it's a strong possibility. JS runs on a sandboxed VM, which stops malware from accessing your computer. However, if defenitely doesn't stop malware from viewing the information inside the sandbox.
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
Nothing you can do, if it is a legitimate hack.
The transaction's already confirmed fully on the network meaning that a doublespend would be impossible. Also you don't know who the hacker is since all he is known by is a bitcoin address, and it could have well been anyone's or even an exchange address.
But if it's a hack, it means that your computer is currently infected. Get an antivirus or even reinstall your OS if needed.
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
I like your userName. This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
Guess you have all the details so it wouldn't be that difficult to know someone has hacked into your computer or mail or wherever you store your password.Guess whats's next ? Move all the coins from your computer to a secure wallet or an offline storage before the hacker takes over.I could be wrong though.
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
What the heck is happening? Too many the same cases that they were hacked by someone, what are you doing with your PC's / devices? Had you tried to logged in somewhere with that account?
The only thing that hackers can penetrate to your blockchain.info is that by giving them authorization or confirming that you allow someone to gain access. What type of protection you use? Because mine, every time I log in there's a need to verify and authorize it through my email.
Is there anything I can do?
Sorry, there's none. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, once it was sent accidentally or not it can't be recovered. The only way to recover it is if that person will send it back.
Two scenarios where the hacker could've logged in without the need of the confirmation, first is that the hacker got access to your device that you gave approval so there's no need to request for another email.
Weird. In my case, everytime Im shutting down my PC, I always need to confirm email verification everytime I logged on on my next session. Im sure it was not associated with my IP as I have a static one and my router is present all day long without plugging it out.
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
Im thinking of human error here. The account was being compromised maybe because of OP's fault. It's hard to imagined that the hacker will just breached easily the account. Maybe in the past, OP put some login credentials somewhere or something like that. Or maybe a close people to OP who also involved in crypto knows the details of OP's account. Who knows anyway.
Sorry for the loss but you can't get it back unless you will figured out what really happened even at low chance.
I enabled 2Fa, I have email confirmation but nothing. I did not even get a email about someone wanting to login to my account nothing that is the thing I don't understand at all.
If you didn't receive any notify from blockchain there is possibility they know your account password.. or email password.. Better to check your computer and maybe there is some keylogger.. do you have any anti virus?
Try to check your email carefully maybe you've been notified check the spam folder.
Because if they are notifying first if there is new ip logging in to your account.
I enabled 2Fa, I have email confirmation but nothing. I did not even get a email about someone wanting to login to my account nothing that is the thing I don't understand at all.
I think with 2FA you mean email confirmation, if hacker have your email password than he can easily logged into your blockchain.info wallet or any other web wallet and can delete all those login email verification email just after accessing your wallets. I think your email + password combination where leaked from somewhere, don't use same email-pass combo in every random sites you make account on. 
I enabled 2Fa, I have email confirmation but nothing. I did not even get a email about someone wanting to login to my account nothing that is the thing I don't understand at all.
From the looks of it, i think your hacker had your the seed/phrase of your wallet. Your account's seed/phrase was most likely compromised sometime in the past and the hacker just restored your wallet via the seed and got away with the money. That's why you are supposed to protect your seed and private keys at all times!
I enabled 2Fa, I have email confirmation but nothing. I did not even get a email about someone wanting to login to my account nothing that is the thing I don't understand at all.
That's not enough because the email confirmation isn't the same with 2fa on mobile. Two scenarios where the hacker could've logged in without the need of the confirmation, first is that the hacker got access to your device that you gave approval so there's no need to request for another email. Second is that if you have the blockchain app on your phone a 4 digit pin is the only requirement when opening the wallet from the app.Edit :Maybe there was a confirmation then the hacker could've deleted the email after approving his IP/device.
I enabled 2Fa, I have email confirmation but nothing. I did not even get a email about someone wanting to login to my account nothing that is the thing I don't understand at all.
Sad development my friend and this can be stopped from happening again just as Potato chips has advised. Consider adding an extra layer of security by enabling 2fa to avoid losing any more of your bitcoins and consider moving your funds to a new wallet or another alternative such as electrum.
Unfortunately, There's nothing you can do because bitcoin transactions are irreversible so once confirmed no changes can be made.
There are tons of possibilities on why your wallet has been compromised but only you can determine that as we don't know what you did. It is often said that online wallets are the most unsafe kinds of wallet but if you must use it, only small amounts should be stored on it and usually having a strong password and enabling 2fa should be fine unless your backup seed is not properly stored or you have some keyloggers.
To prevent this from occuring again, You should start from choosing your wallet and educating yourself about it because you'll be the one who will keep your funds safe most of the time. There are a lot of articles when you do a quick search on google but in short it says "everything should be clean" such as how you store your seed/keys, where you access your wallet etc.
Heres a tl;dr of wallet types:
There are tons of possibilities on why your wallet has been compromised but only you can determine that as we don't know what you did. It is often said that online wallets are the most unsafe kinds of wallet but if you must use it, only small amounts should be stored on it and usually having a strong password and enabling 2fa should be fine unless your backup seed is not properly stored or you have some keyloggers.
To prevent this from occuring again, You should start from choosing your wallet and educating yourself about it because you'll be the one who will keep your funds safe most of the time. There are a lot of articles when you do a quick search on google but in short it says "everything should be clean" such as how you store your seed/keys, where you access your wallet etc.
Heres a tl;dr of wallet types:
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Safest:
Medium:
Unsafe-ish:
Unsafe:
Safest:
- hardware wallet: both reasonably cheap and easy to use
- airgapped pc: expensive and a little bit harder to use (you always have to transfer unsigned/signed transactions between an online and offline machine)
- Paper wallet: very cheap and very secure if generated in the correct way, but hard to use (you have to sweep and discard the paper wallet each time you use it, then transfer the remaining value to a new paper wallet)
Medium:
- Desktop wallet: free, but you need a clean PC and you NEED to encrypt your wallet (using a strong passphrase). Virusscanners/firewall are a must have
Unsafe-ish:
- Android/Ios wallets: I call these ones unsafe because it's harder to verify the wallet's signatures, many people know less about their phone's OS than they know about their desktop's OS, and phones can easily get stolen/lost
Unsafe:
- Any wallet where you're not the (only) one in controll of your private keys. This includes exchanges and online wallets
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
Sad to say but you cant do nothing since its being transfered and confirmed already in another wallet which means you wallet have been compromised or hack which they did able to make transfer from their own wallet and seeing its a new wallet that have being created since it do only have a single transaction.The only thing you can do now is moved on and realize where you have done wrong why your wallet was easily accessed. This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
Hey I logged into my wallet today at around 11 PM. I saw that my bitcoin balance was on 0 first I thought it was a bug so Í reloaded. Still missing I looked at the transaction and saw a transaction from 11AM to some wallet I don't know.
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
This is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/8b9717800fcff3c1df5c88c4080ae0bc089ae6b77f8573d0fbac2332cc44af08
Is there anything I can do?
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