@TheQuin (or any other member of freebitco.in support)
So, I have this weird story from October 2020... I've been an old member of freebitco.in and I've been using the faucet for years. Nothing hardcore, just having the site around while at home or at work, clicking the "Roll" button everytime my mind gets to it. All in all, through the years, I managed to gather a small amount of 0.018 BTC. I was happy, just earning my intrest, clicking my free Rolls and watching BTC price going up, hoping that my small amount can someday reach $1000 so I can take a nice vacation out of it.
And then came October 2020... First of all, I must make clear that I NEVER gamble. Never had, never will. The only "gamble" I engage in my life is buying a lottery ticket every new year. And this is what makes this story weird.
So, one day, I come back home after walking the dog and sat down on my PC to mess around. As I had the site open on the PC already, I did another free Roll and I noticed that the free roll base amount went up. My first thought was that freebitco.in made adjustments and raised the base free roll up a bit. And then I looked up...
0.45142584 BTC
I was like.... "What the hell? This must be a mistake". I refreshed my page a couple of times but the amount didn't change...! So, naturaly, my thought went to maybe winning the lottery, so I checked there. No, my ID number wasn't on the table. I was about ready to write a mail at support about this, if it was a bug or something that I unintentionally did, I didn't want to lose my account and/or the small amount I worked for.
Then it hit me... On the Multiply BTC page, there is a roll history! That records eveything happening to your account (except bettings, dunno what's up with that) so I looked there... What I saw shocked me...
https://i.imgur.com/DPbDCNY.jpgSomeone, or something, logged in to my account and bet all of my savings into Multiply BTC! (I took the screenshot a few days later to show it to a friend of mine so one roll is missing at the bottom of the table as it moved to the second page. It was the initial bet that doubled my amount which was lost on the second one -bottom one you see on the screenshot). I should note that I live alone with my dog and we where both not at home when this happened. And this "thing" kept betting the starting value over and over and when the value was 5x the starting, it increased the bet to include all of it and then did it again... Then it stopped.
It hit me quite hard that this was most likely a hack and I came so very close to losing what I gathered for such a long time (not that I would be devastated or anything, I'm not living off BTC) and I immediately changed my password (which was a secure password in the first place, don't know how someone could find it out and login to my account) and enabled 2FA.
Since then I reluctantly must admit that I enjoyed some of that BTC, I gave myself and my girfriend some nice gifts and had a nice time at Christmass and still left a hefty amount on freebitco.in to get the daily intrest, while still rolling hourly as I did all these years.
But, it's been bothering me since then... What logged in in my account and made these bets? My best guess is a hacker but I'm quite a tech-savvy person and I know my way around secure passwords and decrypting passwords and mine was as secure as it gets (12 digits long, alphanumerical, both Upper and lower case letters plus a symbol) so brute forcing is not an option... My other guess would be a leak from inside freebitco.in but I'd like to trust that you people know what you're doing.... So... What was that?!