Electrum BUG - all Bitcoins stolen - page 2.

Abdussamad

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maybe browser open, but my wallet was saved with a password!!!

Then this bug is not the cause of the theft. You must have downloaded a dodgy copy of electrum or got infected with malware some other way. Please check your browser history to find out where you downloaded electrum from.

MrCrank

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yes, I loose my bitcoins with Electrum last Friday.
After Installation of the new Electrum Desktop Wallet Version 3.0.5 (Windows 10) I see this transfer in the history (5.1.2018 midday).
I opened my wallet with Electrum 3.0.5 on monday 8.1.2018 morning and in the same time there was shown this transfer to another bitcoin address. But I dont do that last friday.
In the other Version of Electrum 3.0.3 my bitcoins are still there (Friday night, after the alleged transfer !!!), my bitcoins are ok at this moment. After I opened in Electrum 3.0.5 all is lost, 3 days later.

This is the Transfer on blockchain.info
https://blockchain.info/address/34xsiBXp3wSGXgVTDtmnkatZ2LbJ3gFMVW

My Electrum wallets was saved with password, I used a clean PC. I have all my passwords in an password manager, no textfile or something else.
I do not understand how that could happen. I dont not use Electrum anymore, you cant trust this tool.

Bad news..
Where you download new version? Check history and log, please post link here..
Was been you browser active at this moment?

teddy5145

hero member

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Merit: 528

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yes, I loose my bitcoins with Electrum last Friday.
After Installation of the new Electrum Desktop Wallet Version 3.0.5 (Windows 10) I see this transfer in the history (5.1.2018 midday).
I opened my wallet with Electrum 3.0.5 on monday 8.1.2018 morning and in the same time there was shown this transfer to another bitcoin address. But I dont do that last friday.
In the other Version of Electrum 3.0.3 my bitcoins are still there (Friday night, after the alleged transfer !!!), my bitcoins are ok at this moment. After I opened in Electrum 3.0.5 all is lost, 3 days later.

This is the Transfer on blockchain.info
https://blockchain.info/address/34xsiBXp3wSGXgVTDtmnkatZ2LbJ3gFMVW

My Electrum wallets was saved with password, I used a clean PC. I have all my passwords in an password manager, no textfile or something else.
I do not understand how that could happen. I dont not use Electrum anymore, you cant trust this tool.

Can't really blame Electrum for it when the wallet itself are trusted by the community.
Either you have malware on your PC or you've downloaded fake electrum.
Try to check the hash of .exe that you've downloaded and see whether it matches the real hash or not.

Either way, I understand if you don't want to use electrum anymore, try to go with hardware wallet next time

HCP

legendary

Activity: 2086

Merit: 4361

It certainly wasn't Electrum v3.0.5 that caused this. That transaction was sent AND confirmed before Electrum v3.0.5 had even been released.

Chances are that your old Electrum wallet was compromised in some way (malware on PC, keylogger getting seed, fake Electrum stealing keys). If, as you claim, you had a password on your wallet, then you were NOT a victim of any theft caused by the recently discovered vulnerability.

That security flaw would only show seeds/private keys if you had NO password on your wallet file AND you happened to visit a website that was running the malicious code... while your Electrum wallet was open.

Lucius

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yes, I loose my bitcoins with Electrum last Friday.
After Installation of the new Electrum Desktop Wallet Version 3.0.5 (Windows 10) I see this transfer in the history (5.1.2018 midday).
I opened my wallet with Electrum 3.0.5 on monday 8.1.2018 morning and in the same time there was shown this transfer to another bitcoin address. But I dont do that last friday.
In the other Version of Electrum 3.0.3 my bitcoins are still there (Friday night, after the alleged transfer !!!), my bitcoins are ok at this moment. After I opened in Electrum 3.0.5 all is lost, 3 days later.

This is the Transfer on blockchain.info
https://blockchain.info/address/34xsiBXp3wSGXgVTDtmnkatZ2LbJ3gFMVW

My Electrum wallets was saved with password, I used a clean PC. I have all my passwords in an password manager, no textfile or something else.
I do not understand how that could happen. I dont not use Electrum anymore, you cant trust this tool.

It seems to me you are download fake Electrum wallet and you you could not download version 3.0.5 on Friday 5.1.2018,it was not out yet.There is many fake sites which use Google add to be displayed at the top of search results,only legitimate site for download Electrum is : https://electrum.org/#home

Second thing which indicates that you have fake wallet is fee hacker use to send your BTC to his address-he want to get this transaction confirmed very quick so he use 725.947 sat/B which is even more then highest recommended fee.

You are not only one who lost BTC in this way,but I leave the possibility that something else might have happened-although it is unlikely that it is.

pooya87

legendary

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Merit: 10611

are you just sharing a news link or did you actually lose bitcoin? and by the way the site is just addressing the same issue as the sticky warning on top of bitcointalk: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/critical-electrum-vulnerability-2702103 about the JSONRPC from versions 2.6 till new releases that fixed it.

in case you actually lost bitcoin, would you mind telling us why you think this is the reason you lost bitcoin and not the fact that you didn't have password set on your wallet? because it may as well have been a simple malware that stole the file itself. something like a keylogger but a little advanced.

dimme78

newbie

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news from heise:

https://m.heise.de/security/meldung/Bitcoin-und-Litecoin-Klau-bei-Electrum-Electron-Cash-und-Electrum-LTC-moeglich-3936813.html

all my Bitcoins are lost Embarrassed

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