Topic: Another massive Bitcoin fraud/theft going through Blockchain.info ? 186k + ? (Read 1435 times)

There was a legal chrome extension that updated one night automatically was updated by the developer and changed all the deposits address of the exchanges for the attacker address. When you send the coins to the "exchange" the coins were being send to the hacker... This extendion was deleted from the chrome store.

The extension I believe it was a bitcoin price ticker for chrome.

 Can chrome addons do that? I have couple of virus protectors and all but didnt know that could happen , scary to think someone made over 200k from one virus.

i bet u were infected with malware

  Yes I have a flash plugin active, everything else is disabled.  There's only a few and they're all generic, silverlight, Quicktime, Picasa, Java applet, and iphotocast all inactive.  I'm just assuming the address with 186k is the same entity that took my 1.3 BTC.  That was the last address the funds were sent to and it only went through one address before that with 2 transaction history.  It's not that much coin but it's a bit disheartening that this happened the first time I used blockchain.info.  Maybe it's just me but it seems just a little too easy for fraud to take place at the moment through browser wallets.  I have never had 1 online fraudulent credit card transaction in the decade that I've transacted online.  I think that the safest option for me is to have a separate computer just for bitcoin, I do really hate degenerates acquiring my hard earned capital. 

Are you using any browser plugins?

There are a number of malware plugins that automatically change the sending address to their hackers address in your browser.  It was likely sent directly to their exchange address that's why you are seeing 186K BTC

  Hello I am the owner of the address 1ETRBAgh5brYL1MHQt3mCVCXByG2b31LT6 and a few weeks ago a made a transaction from blockchain.info to a multibit wallet.  The transaction was taking a while for confirmations but after a while there were quite a few but no coin in my wallet.  I am new to bitcoin and have only made a handful of transactions so I wasn't sure how many confirmations I would need, but have made a few and all has gone fine until now.  Of course the transaction never should up in my address so it seemed like a node intercepted it.  That's just the way it seemed to me anyway.

  I tracked the transaction just recently to 1GfkKeeDQCE5snn4veSJfex5RxN8EBGtpE which only had received my funds who sent the funds to an address with hundreds of transactions 16tr1fd9NAMLTQKWtjvvEpQDeiP3pm2g7k which contains over 186k as of today.  This leads me to believe this is a pretty large criminal enterprise and I would just like to bring it to the attention of the community and to anyone that may have an interest in this address.  I've lost about 1.3 BTC which was worth around 1k a few weeks ago.  I've been using a firefox browser 31.0 on a mac, keys have been imported to my computer.  I have never used used an adroid wallet. This really isn't that much money but I feel like I should at least bring it to the attention of others more versed in this field who may have an interest in this.  The thing that really annoys me is I'm just starting out with bitcoin and for this to happen so soon into using it is frustrating.