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Quote from: mport1 on May 27, 2017, 06:04:24 PM

Are there any companies or individuals that help track down stolen bitcoins? I had 40 BTC that I had on Blockchain stolen awhile back (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/40-btc-gone-please-help-me-understand-what-happened-269443), and was wondering if there are any people that will help out for a fee?

There are no companies that are experts on this and that will do some investigative searching for the stolen bitcoin. The only possible way is to coordinate with government authorities and hire a blockchain expert so that you can search where your bitcoins had gone and you will have a chance to catch the culprit. But even though with such strategy catching the culprit is very thin since they can store their bitcoin in their offline wallet.

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I'm sorry for your lost dude. It will be very difficult to track and identified who have stolen your bitcoin. Because you know it is psuedo-anonymous. They maybe already spending it and have converted it to fiat by now. Mixers is the hackers friend here, it he/she put it in a mixer then its hard to tracked it. Sorry.

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Dump it!!!

there is definitely going to be a paper trail but seeing that coins were actually lost 4 years ago makes the whole process an impossible task with coins scattered all over the network .

Your best shot at getting the person that wiped your wallet would be track that iphones ip address.

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Quote from: mport1 on May 27, 2017, 06:04:24 PM

Are there any companies or individuals that help track down stolen bitcoins? I had 40 BTC that I had on Blockchain stolen awhile back (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/40-btc-gone-please-help-me-understand-what-happened-269443), and was wondering if there are any people that will help out for a fee?

My humble suggestion "move on" simply because you don't expect someone to steal as much as that btc and still be kept in a wallet where it can be found considering that amount must have move from one account to several account, could have moved through several exchange site and most importantly mixing services where it could have been turned to a brand new btc without any trace whatsoever.

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You don't even need a company to track bitcoins, You can easily follow them or hire someone and will reach the ends addresses or exchange addresses, however that's a waste of time:
* if the hacker was an idiot, you would end up at his exchanges account somewhere, it will be hard to know if it's an exchange address or not, and even if you did, majority won't cooperate and are in hard-to-follow legally countries.
* if the hacker is a little smarter, it was mixed multiple times and hence these coins are in someone else's wallet now.

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on May 27, 2017, 10:44:21 PM

Stolen bitcoins are almost impossible to track, unless the thief is stupid enough to leave behind easily traceable information. For amount like 40BTC, I think you should just move on. This is why the Wannacry ransomware only accept bitcoin.

it can be tracked , if he did not mix his coin with a mixer, or if he did not use an exchange to sell for an altcoin, and even so you can track it because amixer and exchange keep the log and your trade activity, a trace should always remain behind, impossible to not leave anything

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Quote from: Boseda on May 28, 2017, 03:36:17 AM

Since Bitcoin transactions are public and mixers don't work so well, I believe it's not so difficult to track your coins.

The thing which is more difficult is to find the current owner(s) of your coins. If the ones who stole your coins are "good" enough I guess the y left no traces...

Very sad for you! Anyway, can you please tell how did they steal your Bitcoins? Did they crack your email account associated with blockchain?

Bitcoin is very hard to track down if they've run it through mixers and spent it by now, which is almost certain. It's also near certain that if they exchanged it to fiat, they used a peer-to-peer service like LocalBitcoins instead of one in which you have to verify your identity.

OP, I'm sorry but unless you have shitloads of money and/or police level abilities, it'll be hard to track these people down.

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Quote from: Boseda on May 28, 2017, 03:36:17 AM

Since Bitcoin transactions are public and mixers don't work so well, I believe it's not so difficult to track your coins.

The thing which is more difficult is to find the current owner(s) of your coins. If the ones who stole your coins are "good" enough I guess the y left no traces...

Very sad for you! Anyway, can you please tell how did they steal your Bitcoins? Did they crack your email account associated with blockchain?

Has there been any case where stolen bitcoins have been found and restored?
If you use established mixers like Bitmixer.io, it becomes very difficult to establish links between bitcoin addresses.

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Since Bitcoin transactions are public and mixers don't work so well, I believe it's not so difficult to track your coins.

The thing which is more difficult is to find the current owner(s) of your coins. If the ones who stole your coins are "good" enough I guess the y left no traces...

Very sad for you! Anyway, can you please tell how did they steal your Bitcoins? Did they crack your email account associated with blockchain?

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Quote from: mport1 on May 27, 2017, 06:04:24 PM

Are there any companies or individuals that help track down stolen bitcoins? I had 40 BTC that I had on Blockchain stolen awhile back (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/40-btc-gone-please-help-me-understand-what-happened-269443), and was wondering if there are any people that will help out for a fee?

I don't think that there is an existing company that will help you to track down bitcoin because in the first place, bitcoin is anonymous and it is not that easy to locate or track down. Even most of the well known groups didn't know how to track so it is impossible for me to track down stolen bitcoin unless you use a centralized online wallet.

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Do you know the wallet your bitcoins were stolen from? If yes, it is not impossible to track them. But I am afraid that is where it stops. Tracking them is one thing, recovering them is another. On the other hand, the hacker could have used a mixing service, and tracing the coins could be almost impossible. These mixers can create micro payments to different wallets - say about 20,000 transactions. Keep in mind even f you can track down the money as the addresses are anonymous and untouchable by everyone else besides the owner of it there's nothing you can do.

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Stolen bitcoins are almost impossible to track, unless the thief is stupid enough to leave behind easily traceable information. For amount like 40BTC, I think you should just move on. This is why the Wannacry ransomware only accept bitcoin.

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Not companies, but maybe individuals, like private investigators. I don't know any and how to know if they are reliable or not, and how much would cost.

But the odds are against you, specially if you and the thief aren't in the same country

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Quote from: mport1 on May 27, 2017, 06:04:24 PM

Are there any companies or individuals that help track down stolen bitcoins? I had 40 BTC that I had on Blockchain stolen awhile back (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/40-btc-gone-please-help-me-understand-what-happened-269443), and was wondering if there are any people that will help out for a fee?

Even if they can help you track down the stolen Bitcoin there's basically next to no chance that you're going to get it back, and there's a high likelihood that it has already been spent and sent off to a ton of different places by now anyways. It's not like you can just send transactions to x amount of different addresses and say "that money was stolen now give it back".

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It is not exactly possible to track down stolen Bitcoins, at least with a great certainty. Since addresses does not necessary have to be associated with an identity, it is hard to tie any addresses to a single entity. With mixers and localbitcoins, the process gets harder since the anonymity can be maximised.

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Bitcoin is pseudo anonymous, so I don't think it's impossible to track thieves. Expert hackers could help you if you pay them a good comission... These guys are like mercenaries of the virtual world, working for the good and evil depending who pays them more money. However you must know it's dangerous to deal with these people. Legit companies doing this job I'm not sure if they exist.

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but i think it's gonna cost you. they mainly work for law enforcement.

even if they did trace it to an exchange, i don't see why the exchange would give up their details without warrants and stuff.

and mixers aren't foolproof.

but it looks like your loss was nearly four years ago. those coins could be scattered across a million wallets by now.

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There are companies helping you to cover the tracks and make your coins disappear from the eyes of everyone else and not the other way around mate sorry.

Even if you manage to find your coins then all it will take for the person having access to the private keys is to send them to a mixer and after that

There will absolutely be no possible way for anyone anymore to do anything what so ever.

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Are there any companies or individuals that help track down stolen bitcoins? I had 40 BTC that I had on Blockchain stolen awhile back (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/40-btc-gone-please-help-me-understand-what-happened-269443), and was wondering if there are any people that will help out for a fee?

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