Topic: Bitcoins taken from Electrum Wallet (Read 214 times)

Impossible to recover funds which has been transferred to any other address.

May be you downloaded it from the official website but i doubt that your private keys might be stolen through any other online mean. You should need to be very careful while using your wallet and other online surfing simultaneously. There isn't any way out, you can only report it but even after this it won't help to get back your funds.
Be careful next time and always check the digital signature as stated by HCP.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of Bitcoin, those coins are gone. There is no way to recover them... and very little chance of identifying the thief

Are you 100% sure you downloaded from electrum.org and NOT from one of the scam clone sites like "electrumsource.org"?

The clone sites, look pretty much IDENTICAL to the official site... you mention Electrum 3.0... which makes me think you might have the scam wallet... as it is showing "Latest release: Electrum-3.0"... however the OFFICIAL site has: "Latest release: Electrum-3.0.3" (and 3.0.3 has been out for weeks)

Just as a headsup the SHA256 checksum for the SCAM wallet is:
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Checksum information
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Name: electrum-3.0.0-portable.exe
Size: 21793360 bytes (20 MB)

SHA256: 2F3E48A85FDC8285F4C90DB4B7E817A654C85427941779186D87708FA6374E2B
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The OFFICIAL wallet shows:
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Checksum information
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Name: electrum-3.0.3-portable.exe
Size: 18485159 bytes (17 MB)

SHA256: EF5F4BCBB19901BEBCA743323AE7AF48FC349837FCF6A09F9A861C18FF8DBE13
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However, it should be noted that the ONLY true way to tell if you downloaded the correct client is to check the digital signature of the downloaded installer file and make sure that it was signed by ThomasV.

Checking sig on scam wallet shows:


Checking sig on OFFICIAL wallet shows:

Hello everyone,

I am a newbie to Crypo. Have been trading btc to and from my Electrum 3.0 portable wallet successfully for the past few days. Unfortunately it seems to me I have now been hacked. I was hoping someone here could help me confirm or advise how to recover.

As follows :

Purchased via Bitonic (as previously successful) BTC.
Received BTC into Electrum Wallet showing new balance.
Seconds later a new uncommanded transaction within the wallet starts to process. Stating 'child pay for parent'
Then within the same minute the transaction was confirmed leaving my wallet completely empty.
Address sent to : 1CdK8Q45QHZMrYA9LThtZBiuqH5ApNUnMz
Trans ID : 3299a5444ef2cc0f923df579f69fa5031761f4e50505a452aa85c54c79903772

I had downloaded the Electrum directly from the Electrum.org website and was using it succesfully upto that's point.

Could anyone please help check to comfirm I have been hacked or is it possibly my incompetence with the wallet settings responsible?

I believe there is no such Electrum support service, hence my desperate attempt here...

Thankyou so much for any guidance in advance..