Topic: Cryptocurrency wallets: Can they be hacked?? (Read 4112 times)

    This questions already asked and answer many times here but i still give my opinion. Your digital or cryptocurrency wallet will be hack if you are become careless and do not know how to keep secrets. You need to keep yout password and private key secretly that only you knew it. Don't give or avoid to share your personal documents to other people. Just take care your wallet by your own.

I think this question is being asked hundred of time till now for so many years why do not people just Google search that topics they are about to start and see if they are already discussed. This type of topics usually attracts the attention of the spammers. I will request the OP to contribute a little and close this thread so no more spam gets into it. If everyone stops spamming and started helping and providing Useful information then I am sure we can see a lot of camp and other services and big companies joining this form very soon. I remember back at 2013 this forum was supposed to be the backbone of Bitcoin and now when the market is so vast that more than 3000 altcoins exist then we have a lot bigger Army of Crypto users in there all we need to do is help them to reach higher base.

I think both is the same of user getting hacked or wallet as if the user gets hacked automatically his all wallets are also get hacked as the hacker after getting control of your desktop will just go through your desktop and steal all your wallet details and hack them.

In some of the projects the developer itself put a virus in the wallet download so that he can get access to the users desktop and hack it.

of course not, otherwise why are these purses? usually hackers break into user, not wallets

Indeed, we are right now living on digital world where people connected with internet. I am believe if the thing in digital form, it can be hacked. Hackers always improves their skill and knowledge, and we should be always aware with our crypto wallet. There is nothing wrong with always carefull

It happen all the times that not only the wallets but the exchanges too that in spite of heavy firewall and defenses still the hackers penetrated and steal millions of money. Therefore you should keep your private keys and account passwords so that it will not be hack and steal your hard earned assets.

Hackers only hack because we give them a chance to hack our bitcoin, if we will not give them opportunity to hack our account then they will not be able to hack it, so to avoid this kind of problem, we all should use the safe bitcoin wallet and never invest in scamming site, before investing do research and use wallets specially the blockchain to save our bitcoin for long time, never share your private key with anyone.

I think this cryptocurrency wallet will be very difficult to hack because this wallet has very high encryption, but there are a lot of cases that there are so many users who are exposed to phishing or fake webs that they give their private keys to make their assets in the wallet cryptocurrency was stolen and hacked.

Yes for sure. Your wallet can be hacked. So many people that have had their wallets hacked was as a result of their own carelessness or negligence. If you protect your wallet seeds or private keys, the hackers won't get you.

There is no cryptocurrency wallet that is not hackable. It all depends on how well you can secure your wallets by taking all known security measures so as to protect your funds.

Yes.  Cryptocurrency wallets can be hacked.
The more reason why one should be very careful how passcode is stored.
I will also suggest that we should desist from clicking just any link without verifying its authenticity.
This is because hackers now hack cryptocurrency wallets using that strategy
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How are you guys protecting your laptops?


Example do almost all of you use a program that encrypts your hard drive where when you turn on it, it requires a password?  Thus example most of us who turn on our laptop, some of us don't even have a password.  Others might have a windows password to log in but i read that doesn't do much.


Anyone here used bitlocker?  Example even if you keep your btc in your hardware wallet for example, im sure many of you use a program like lastpass or keepass right?  But say someone stole your laptop or got access ot it... or say they got access to it and then put a trojan or whatnot on it... then you use it like nothing happened.  Well i read they could record your keystrokes for anything you go into whether lastpass, your email or bank etc.  Then say you have lot of information in lastpass... then they could basically hack every email or account you have etc... is that correct?  If so, how does one protect themselves from this if something happens to your laptop.  I think someone taking your laptop would be much worst than someone having access to it... then putting it right where it belonged right?  Because if someone takes your laptop, well even if they put a virus or trojan on it, if you don't type anything on it anymore it isn't that much harm?  Like say you have wallets on your computer with cryptocurrency but you can't put those in ledger and you keep it in wallet or exchange.  Well whether you click on a link or download something or someone has access to your laptop and install something, how do you protect yourself from all these things.  Obviously if you click on something or download something, that is on you.  But im talking about if someone does it where you do not know.  Or of course it get stolen.  But assuming your wallets are encrypted... well could they still hack your machine?


What program is best used for this/


Im guessing bitlocker because even if someone stole your laptop or has access to your laptop, well if they can't log into it, they can't do anything right?  Does anyone do this and if so, is process hard for someone who is not tech savy?  I always wanted to protect my laptop because when i turn it on... there is no password no nothing.  But my important documents... well you can't open them because i encrypt it with a program like axcrypt.   But my thinking is if someone has access to your program like lastpass or keepass, isn't that pretty much they can do whatever they want?

Yes it can be hacked especially when your cryptocurrency wallet is always log in (automatically saving password) or maybe you log into another computer and forget to log out. This is the common mistakes that we never think of.

Yes, you are right with your statement. Hackers now are really clever and can do all things over the internet. The best thing to do now is always keeps our wallet safe and secured.

according  to  my  opinion  everything  that  is made  by  people  also can  be  break  by people  so  everything  is  possible  and  the  only solution  is  to keep  yourinformation  for  yourself  and do not  give more  chances to the  hackers.

Yes it is, for the hackers everything is possible if you will become neglectful. Now regarding about your topic, there has been tackled or shared already that some of the members in the forum that they've became a victim of the hacker to stole their bitcoin balance to their wallet in the electrum, and sometimes in Myetherwallet also many of the communities who this wallet has been hacked then also by the hackers, maybe soem of them suddenly clicked that phishing site were it became the open door for the hacker.

No it can't be hacked if your account is fully secured and has binded with your gmail or any email accounts . Like its said in subject the best way to secure accounts is use encryption to avoid the hackers steal your informations to your accounts.

Yes I agree with you. It can be hacked because it is only program. But if you really taking goid care if it then it will be safe to use.

Can it be hacked?  yes.  Can we take safe practice and make it 10000x harder for the hacker? also yes 

  It can be hacked but it will be very difficult to hack the e-wallet. Those who are really good at it can do that, but if there are bugs, the developers will fix it soon and I think the e-wallets are quite safe to use, so you can rest assured that the damage will not be high