Sorry I'm making this a monologue... I *was* able to log in to the wallet using the app. I had to log in with the wallet ID & password after clicking that I didn't have access to my camera. All my coin is safe. Well... the ETH & BTC is anyway, the app doesn't support BCH, which is still going to be held hostage until I can log in via the desktop.
Thanks to stupid Blockchain 'support' I had 2FA turned off for the first time EVER for several hrs today & TOR addresses were enabled. I'm lucky I didn't get robbed. (Note that 2FA was 'turned off' for I suppose anyone but me, trying to use my registered email address!)
THANK YOU to everyone in this community for spreading the gospel of smarter wallets. A lot of us really are reading & heeding.
That's why this should be a lesson to stop using web wallets. I assume that you're planning to move your funds now to a much more safer wallet.
If thats the case I recommend
electrum. It's a lightweight desktop wallet.
When moving to a different wallet, It's more safer to sweep than to import it. Here's why:
https://99bitcoins.com/know-more-private-key-import-vs-sweep-difference/This should be helpful so here you go: a tl;dr of wallet types:
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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
Regarding on claiming your BCH, You don't have to wait for blockchain.info to fix their shits. You can use
Electron Cash which is a forked version of electrum to claim it.
Create a new wallet --> Standard Wallet --> I already have a seed --> Enter your seed/Backup phrase --> Options --> Tick the
BIP39 Box Please be careful on phishing links and take time to verify the files.