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sr. member
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September 14, 2017, 11:22:16 AM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
I think it can be hacked and there are lot of professional hacker that can really hack your wallet. In addition to that, there is a possibility that your wallet can be hacked and you should put your private key and password in safeplace and try put 2fa to your wallet to make it more secure.
newbie
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September 14, 2017, 11:18:30 AM
Everything is Possible with hackers.
Just don't trust anyone.. Earn it through your self and dont rely.
hero member
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September 14, 2017, 11:16:49 AM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
Think they can't hack it. There are many wallets that have high security. I have know 2 trusted wallets and I use it to store my bitcoins. Coinbase and Coins.ph are really trusted wallets and have high security that can make your bitcoins safe.
Online wallets are the most unsafe of all the wallets for the simple reason that you are not the only person that holds your private keys, even if some services argue they do not know your private keys you have no way to know that for sure, so it is better to keep your holdings of bitcoin in desktop wallets, cold wallets, paper wallets or hardware wallets, that way the chance to get hacked is lower.
I think the better way to do is you have to transfer it into your currency so that whatever may happens it has already a value and you can spend on. We should not wait too much for the growth if you think it's enough then transfer it to your wallet and make use of it before discrepancies may occur. The earlier the better!
If you want to cash out that is fine but many people are invested in bitcoin for the long term so it is obvious they will prefer to keep their bitcoin instead to try to convert their cash once again to bitcoin, besides there are many ways criminals can steal your cash or money on bank accounts, compared to that a paper wallet or a hardware wallet seems a lot safer than cashing out.
hero member
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September 11, 2017, 10:16:18 PM
If you have a personal wallet or one on the exchange it is 100% possible to be hacked by hackers so make sure you have good best practices in place (prevention of being compromised with your account or technology used).
It is better to have a hardware wallet rather than storing bitcoin on exchanges because that is risky since it has a lot money in that place then it is very attractive to the hackers to break down and steal some money so if you want to be safe then you better investing in security and buying some good and real hardware wallet out there.
full member
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September 11, 2017, 09:57:52 PM
If you have a personal wallet or one on the exchange it is 100% possible to be hacked by hackers so make sure you have good best practices in place (prevention of being compromised with your account or technology used).
full member
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September 11, 2017, 09:42:41 PM
Yes, It is Possible That bitcoin Wallet could be hacked.
Hackers are smart and if they really want to hack something they will do their best just to get what they want.
Bitcoin wallet literally has money inside so hackers will really have interest into it. Because of Money Cheesy
and hackers are always free on any networks.
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"Proof-of-Asset Protocol"
September 11, 2017, 09:33:03 PM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
My answer will be maybe. Because I think that many wallets don't have high security and many hackers may able to hack all of the accounts their. But there are also many trusted wallets that for sure it can't be hack.
full member
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September 11, 2017, 09:29:14 PM
it is very possible, one of the ways that often a hacker is there by sending a phishing link to us. so we should be more be careful of unclear links.
hero member
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September 11, 2017, 06:50:12 PM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
Think they can't hack it. There are many wallets that have high security. I have know 2 trusted wallets and I use it to store my bitcoins. Coinbase and Coins.ph are really trusted wallets and have high security that can make your bitcoins safe.
Online wallets are the most unsafe of all the wallets for the simple reason that you are not the only person that holds your private keys, even if some services argue they do not know your private keys you have no way to know that for sure, so it is better to keep your holdings of bitcoin in desktop wallets, cold wallets, paper wallets or hardware wallets, that way the chance to get hacked is lower.
I think the better way to do is you have to transfer it into your currency so that whatever may happens it has already a value and you can spend on. We should not wait too much for the growth if you think it's enough then transfer it to your wallet and make use of it before discrepancies may occur. The earlier the better!
sr. member
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The All-in-One Cryptocurrency Exchange
September 11, 2017, 11:10:06 AM
Yes hackers can hack your bitcoin wallet if you do not hold the private keys or you will give out your private keys online. So better keep it yourself and if you have a lot of bitcoin store it in cold wallet to be very safe.
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September 11, 2017, 11:07:22 AM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
Think they can't hack it. There are many wallets that have high security. I have know 2 trusted wallets and I use it to store my bitcoins. Coinbase and Coins.ph are really trusted wallets and have high security that can make your bitcoins safe.
Online wallets are the most unsafe of all the wallets for the simple reason that you are not the only person that holds your private keys, even if some services argue they do not know your private keys you have no way to know that for sure, so it is better to keep your holdings of bitcoin in desktop wallets, cold wallets, paper wallets or hardware wallets, that way the chance to get hacked is lower.

Some online wallet providers loot out the bitcoins from the wallet and left but not all the people are doing that. If you are more security concern person you can find the desktop wallet that will give you the option to save the wallet seed, private key and it will give you the option to sweep the private key too.
Whenever you are  using the online wallet please get into the by the correct URL only. Don't google it.
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September 11, 2017, 11:04:48 AM
Offline wallet is the most secure, online comes with a lot of risks but at least most can enable 2 step verification where they send a unique code to your phone.
full member
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September 11, 2017, 11:01:07 AM
they can hack your private key by use brute-force. but I think they just need small time. look like 1000000 year to crack it
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September 11, 2017, 10:56:48 AM
Hackers is very active  when it comes in money, especially bank accounts and can also be your bitcoin wallet. You're the one who's liable of your private key to keep your wallet safe. Much better if you turn off your location on your gadgets to avoid tracking your device.
hero member
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September 10, 2017, 11:33:34 PM
can they hack into our wallet. There are many professional hackers out there. What are the chances? Also what is the safest way to safeguard ourself?
Think they can't hack it. There are many wallets that have high security. I have know 2 trusted wallets and I use it to store my bitcoins. Coinbase and Coins.ph are really trusted wallets and have high security that can make your bitcoins safe.
Online wallets are the most unsafe of all the wallets for the simple reason that you are not the only person that holds your private keys, even if some services argue they do not know your private keys you have no way to know that for sure, so it is better to keep your holdings of bitcoin in desktop wallets, cold wallets, paper wallets or hardware wallets, that way the chance to get hacked is lower.
hero member
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September 07, 2017, 07:41:45 PM
I believe bitcoin cannot be hacked by hackers thought there is this so called 51% attack but I have not seen it being done in Bitcoin.  But if there is a 51% attack, the chain will definitely fork making Bitcoin to have 2 chain and the original chain will remain.  With regards to wallet, it can be if your pc is infected with wallet.dat sniffing malware  Grin .  There are already some cases of wallet.dat being hacked due to downloading infected files.

OP is not asking about Bitcoin itself, but just your wallet. Like you said, if your wallet.dat is found then you can kiss your Bitcoins goodbye because all you need is that to recover them and hackers will steal them if they find it.
sr. member
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September 07, 2017, 05:55:39 PM
I believe bitcoin cannot be hacked by hackers thought there is this so called 51% attack but I have not seen it being done in Bitcoin.  But if there is a 51% attack, the chain will definitely fork making Bitcoin to have 2 chain and the original chain will remain.  With regards to wallet, it can be if your pc is infected with wallet.dat sniffing malware  Grin .  There are already some cases of wallet.dat being hacked due to downloading infected files.
legendary
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September 07, 2017, 02:02:34 PM
theoretically it is impossible to hack into your wallet but hackers can not only steal your data but can also become you by studying your behaviour, so they have some methods which can affect you indirectly like they can infect your device or they can create a fake wifi so if you connect that your device can be compromised.these hacks are basically called spoofing or man in the middle attack or there are some other attacks too. to be safe also avoid installing any untrusted apps or software and do not use your money related stuff in others wifi network.
sr. member
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September 07, 2017, 01:23:19 PM


I think it's not so easy for someone's computer to be hacked without the required data.
I think someone haker he will spread a virus torjan that can hack someone's computer.
and if we use antivirus it is easy to clean.
usually the haker will break the wallet server not with a personal user.
that's what I know
hero member
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September 07, 2017, 01:00:19 PM


it is not easy to break into a wallet.
I think the wallet has made security doubled. guarded defense.
but no means can not be hacked.
but if to steal one of the users it is very difficult, because most swallets have a private key
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