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November 27, 2023, 08:23:39 AM
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Once I had $600 stolen from Jaxx, and at that time the whole Internet knew that this wallet was being hacked  easy, but I did not have this knowledge. It was a shame and now I wish you inner strength and peace of mind as you have lost quite a bit. Did you have an antivirus installed?
The licensed version of windows?
Maybe the wife installed some kind of program without a license? People who are poorly versed in computers often clog up the computer with bad applications.
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November 27, 2023, 08:17:41 AM
I understand why you are trying to say, but can you show me a similar thread that received merit because they lost their Bitcoin? This isn't a topic that looks like a merit fishing stuff, maybe I am wrong but sorry to say I won't dare merit this post at all, 11BTC is gone, what will merit do at this point? I feel sorry for whoever this person is but what does this have to do with merits? It solves nothing to this problem.

They must have done something wrong using the crypto wallet without them knowing, it can happen to anybody but there is no way this will fetch him merits, if he truly want merit he would have talk about ways to avoid the mistakes, things beginners need to do to avoid getting their Bitcoin wallet compromised?

There is no single tutorial or even advice, he merely shared his painful experience, with the way you think, imagine if this is real? Have you even consider to think it this way?
You're right; I might be a little harsher without it being necessary. After all, we're all innocent until proven guilty. To correct my statement, the majority of the threads I mentioned being created for attention from newbies were regarding lost Bitcoin that was supposedly bought in the early days. I can possibly find a few because I remember replying to some of them. I don't know if this incident is real or not; I'm hoping it's not, because losing 11 bitcoins is tough and a burden that isn't easy to carry, but still, it doesn't make too much sense. Any reasonable person would have gone ahead and taken steps to secure this kind of money.

I'm not judging if someone doesn't know how to sign a message either, as it's something that I haven't done myself either; however, something doesn't add to this story. Is it the way the bitcoins were lost, or is it because the OP might not be telling us something more vital to explain how it might have happened? I don't know. In the first two transaction IDs, the sender address (ending in -rxx0a) shows a total of 28 bitcoins received. I can't fathom that the OP was dealing with such great amounts of money and kept them unsecured on a shared computer. The other two feature another wallet with dusty amounts of BTC received in them.
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November 27, 2023, 08:04:32 AM
My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do
Steps:

download eletrum wallet (from its official site)
open your wallet
copy the address to sign
click on tools- sign/verify message
write the message
paste the address
click on sign
copy the signature and share here.
You can't sign a message without the private key, if it was that easy, a certain satoshiwannabe would have done it already instead of forging.
And signing a message is impossible without a working PC, when someone gets hacked, they won't simply back up their hard drive, instead they'd take out any private key and wipe the drive clean.

But these kinds of imaginary hacks happen from time to time, there was even a person claiming that someone took 100 k BTC without having a private key by only having a signature. These are very similar to certain satoshiwannabe wet dreams, they even have a scam coin where they can block and reverse any transactions at will.😉, to be honest it's a perfect cash cow, get hacked, reverse, rinse and repeat, and what we have a lot of, are idiots to buy such scams. So kind of a wet dream.
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November 26, 2023, 01:09:24 PM
My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do
Steps:

download eletrum wallet (from its official site)
open your wallet
copy the address to sign
click on tools- sign/verify message
write the message
paste the address
click on sign
copy the signature and share here.
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November 26, 2023, 07:12:10 AM
It's sad to think even with 11 BTC holdings, OP didn't even think of buying a cold wallet to protect his investment. It's a huge amount of money, and shouldn't take it easy when it comes to security. I agree with you, this won't happen if he has a hardware wallet. His wife may not cause a hack if he at least think of the security of his holdings.

I think we shouldn't make assumptions in this case.  OP still has not shown real proof that he owned 11 bitcoins to begin with, even though he said he would provide evidence.  The only parts of his story that have been confirmed are a couple blockchain transactions, but honestly those could mean anything - for all we know, he just found some random transactions on the blockchain and claimed they were hacks.
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November 26, 2023, 07:01:27 AM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

I am sorry for your loss, be it story or reality. But I want to ask you why you put 11 BTC in a careless wallet. 11BTC means huge amounts of money. Why don't you put a strong hardware wallet offline? People will learn from your loss but your loss will never be recovered. Your wife may not have done such a thing. You may have given your wallet seed phase somewhere.
It's sad to think even with 11 BTC holdings, OP didn't even think of buying a cold wallet to protect his investment. It's a huge amount of money, and shouldn't take it easy when it comes to security. I agree with you, this won't happen if he has a hardware wallet. His wife may not cause a hack if he at least think of the security of his holdings.
If we have 1k dollar BTC then we will think about buying a hardware wallet to give more security to that BTC. Because 1k dollar BTC is very valuable to me. Also I don't access anything like (airdrop join) with this wallet which I use to take weekly payments. In this case how did the OP keep 11 BTC and use that wallet carelessly. In this case I find it very difficult to accept.
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November 26, 2023, 06:30:16 AM
You are absolutely right in this statement. But that doesn't mean my assumption is wrong.

You, everyone else and I can only guess what is true and what is fiction in this thread, and until there is solid proof that the OP is telling the truth, no one is wrong.

It would be logical to write what you think the topic should be locked for - and you already wrote that in your post "OP is troll, no proofs, no signed messages". Although keep in mind that mods don't have to share your opinion and won't do anything.
Is such a free interpretation suitable for a report? I thought the report should be short. It turns out there is no single standard form for reports? Please do not evade away from newbie answers and provide at least a sample of a correct report

Have you read the forum rules?    
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There is no point in going further off topic, and if you are interested in something more about how to use the "report to moderator" option, you can open a thread on that topic in the Beginners & Help board.
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November 26, 2023, 05:48:46 AM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

I am sorry for your loss, be it story or reality. But I want to ask you why you put 11 BTC in a careless wallet. 11BTC means huge amounts of money. Why don't you put a strong hardware wallet offline? People will learn from your loss but your loss will never be recovered. Your wife may not have done such a thing. You may have given your wallet seed phase somewhere.
It's sad to think even with 11 BTC holdings, OP didn't even think of buying a cold wallet to protect his investment. It's a huge amount of money, and shouldn't take it easy when it comes to security. I agree with you, this won't happen if he has a hardware wallet. His wife may not cause a hack if he at least think of the security of his holdings.
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November 26, 2023, 05:41:30 AM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  


That is why it is said that the cryptocurrency market is extremely risky. here you have to make a good choice as well as adopt the best ways to preserve it. It's great if someone can buy such a large number of bitcoins, but it's even better if they keep it safely. You have been careless in securing your bitcoins. First of all, you should not have kept all your bitcoins in one wallet rather it should have been divided. Apart from this, there are also very good hard wallets in the market right now where you can store your bitcoins. Online wallets always have more chances of hackers to attack.

I have a hard wallet, but I still don't keep all my assets in one wallet, instead I'm trying to buy another one, so that if one wallet is accidentally hacked, So there is no fear of all my assets being stolen. Similarly I don't keep my assets on any one exchange, but I keep my trading assets in different exchanges. However, we all realize and newbies must realize that hackers are always active in this market, and our small mistake can lead to a big loss for us.
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November 26, 2023, 05:21:48 AM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

I am sorry for your loss, be it story or reality. But I want to ask you why you put 11 BTC in a careless wallet. 11BTC means huge amounts of money. Why don't you put a strong hardware wallet offline? People will learn from your loss but your loss will never be recovered. Your wife may not have done such a thing. You may have given your wallet seed phase somewhere.
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November 26, 2023, 04:51:05 AM
Sorry to say but even if this person learn how to sign a message is the BTC coming back? Are you guys going to get his BTC back for him? Why are you forcing him to sign a message? So that you can believe that he is indeed the rightful owner? What is next after? Let us send his BTC back to him since he is the rightful owner?

OP, I am glad you learned your lesson, you don't have to keep longing this thread, you shared your pain and people don't still believe, leave the post and move on, new readers will learn something from it or also join the group of people that don't believe.

My advice for you now is to get a hardware wallet, it's not even up to $300 to get a solid one, Trezor, Onekey, Keystone, Tangem, D'cent, and so on, these wallets are badass, good for keeping large amount of crypto, now they are doing discount, black Friday's everywhere, act now to avoid future losses, take heart and be strong.
Because it's quite often for newer members to come up with such stories to attract attention and merit as well, in a desperate attempt to rank up. I don't know what to believe. I've read a whole lot of stories here, and a large number of them were fiction. I can't accept that someone who supposedly had 11 BTC, worth approximately half a million dollars, was that of a novice who did not have a hardware wallet, which barely costs $70, and kept his wallet on a shared Windows computer, not even a separate computer or OS for this purpose. I'm sorry, but it doesn't sound plausible.
I understand why you are trying to say, but can you show me a similar thread that received merit because they lost their Bitcoin? This isn't a topic that looks like a merit fishing stuff, maybe I am wrong but sorry to say I won't dare merit this post at all, 11BTC is gone, what will merit do at this point? I feel sorry for whoever this person is but what does this have to do with merits? It solves nothing to this problem.

They must have done something wrong using the crypto wallet without them knowing, it can happen to anybody but there is no way this will fetch him merits, if he truly want merit he would have talk about ways to avoid the mistakes, things beginners need to do to avoid getting their Bitcoin wallet compromised?

There is no single tutorial or even advice, he merely shared his painful experience, with the way you think, imagine if this is real? Have you even consider to think it this way?
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November 26, 2023, 01:56:58 AM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.

I am sorry to hear that brother.  I lost $10,000 back in March 2021, nowhere near 11 BTC, and it was very painful.  Sad  It's not like I was a wealthy person. Just a regular working programmer.

I have learnt a lot since then, and the best I can do is say goodbye to it and keep on and stay optimistic.  If you still have your home, your employment, or retirement or whatever you have, your wife, etc, then it's a good idea to focus on what you have, it helped me to move forward and lessened the shock of it.

Soon it will just be a bad memory and nothing more.
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November 25, 2023, 10:11:14 PM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  
I recently spoke in a post about the internet and bitcoin that are not compatible in terms of key storage, but in good time, you are alive.
Look at the contrast, you wrote in the title "I lost 11 btc", you should be grateful that you didn't say "I lost everything".
I lost my mother recently, I spent the little I had on her, but I think that's how life is, life teaches us good and bad things.
you just have to keep moving forward.

From a technical point of view, I don't understand why a hacker empties your transactions in fractions, usually it is a single movement to prevent you from moving the funds.

It does not agree with the usual procedure, which could indicate that the person who did it is someone with little knowledge, or someone close to you who wanted to take some and then greed motivated him to take it all because the transactions are hours apart.
Edit:
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt to not think this is trolling.
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November 25, 2023, 08:53:10 PM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

I am feeling very sad for you. I always say that it is very bad idea to store your btc in PC because PC has very weak security against malware. I believe that your PC also targeted by malicious activity where Hackers get access to your phrase. This could be only reason of your loss after reading your full story.

Why I am saying PC is not safe? First of all we Install Window, or Linux from shop(most of time we purchase PC with built in Window). Shop member generally using crack windows which have built in drivers and other needful software. These windows download from Unofficial sites and the chances of malware is so high. Second whenever we install any software especially when crack or any app from unofficial app , These apps are also full if malware. sometimes app automatically installed with popup when we browsing when we have strong security against malware.

Sad to say that No one can return your BTC even Satoshi but I am sharing strategy for future which will prevent you from further loss

▪️ Download official window from office site and make bootable usb by own.
▪️Don't use old this hacked wallet more and also If you used any other btc or altcoins wallet kindly send funds to new wallet (Create with mobile)
▪️Don't install unofficial software. It will be better that you use two PC. One should be fully spare just for crypto transaction
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November 25, 2023, 08:45:40 PM
Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

edit to add:

Definitely not my wife. We live in a rural setting. She doesn't have the computer knowledge to even launch the wallet. This was an external hack.

I first noticed when I logged into Koinly and saw my BTC balance was reduced.  I then launched Bitcoin Core and it was about a week behind.  Showed my 11btc as it updated, then hit the date of the hack and it went to zero.  Wallet is encrypted and appears to work fine. PC is turned off now and hard drives will be wiped. This definitely sucks, but not the end of the world.  Opportunity for others to learn or be reminded from my mistakes.

Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address.   After further investigation this looks to have been caused by a botnet.

edit 2:

All of my addresses in Bitcoin Core are segwit.  I can't seem to find a way to create a signed message with segwit and Bitcoin Core.  If you don't believe my post that's fine.  I'm not looking to gain anything, just want to tell my story so others don't make the mistakes I did.

TX IDs of the four transactions that drained my wallet:

e4fda9c61c782ad0035ee9b5c551e7e48a67c294499ae7cdc6702c7d3b06b19e

1ec109e71874990c33afd66eff4050776a1ba796d92b97cea8dc48b948fed6c8

95e9e7a88536668bbfaaf12b417ec3ec74d851d018726511ec797061d495c97a

ed8e7988e4c000b05c1814c3aaeb5170a452ee54c2dd33cc1e533fbc885ec25d


so sorry to hear about your loss man, it is indeed a very sad experience to loose your Bitcoin and that much of it must have cost you a fortune to acquire.

I can not tell how exactly this happened as I am not that tech inclined when it comes to analysing how a wallet got compromised uisng codes but I know that offline and hardware wallets have now become the safe heaven for holders. Just buy your coins and keep them safe in a hardware wallet and make sure to keep it safe. Holding coins online, sometimes, might not be entirely safe, especially if you consider holding for a  long time


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November 25, 2023, 08:26:20 PM
Somebody deleting my truth about BTC

None of your comments are useful in helping the OP recover his BTC. Instead, you are completely off-topic and derailing the thread to promote an altcoin. You are free to create your own thread in the section of the forum designated specifically for altcoins.
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November 25, 2023, 11:55:09 AM
The fact that someone allegedly had 11 BTC does not mean that this person must know how to sign a message or that he has any broader knowledge about Bitcoin. I have personally seen a lot of people who bought BTC a long time ago and then found themselves in a situation where they did not know even the most basic things, and these were not trolls, but people who really had the BTC they were talking about. Possession of something and knowledge about it do not have to be related to each other.
You are absolutely right in this statement. But that doesn't mean my assumption is wrong.

And if you are finished, then I hope you don’t mind me expressing my vision of the situation in more detail?:

I believe that OP did not lose any bitcoins. I propose OP simply made up this sad story so that out of pity or solidarity they would pour him merits. He didn't succeed. I’m glad that the forum’s audience is getting smarter every year and is less and less susceptible to such provocations

I also do not exclude other theories, the proposal of Pmalek also makes sense:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63217689
It would be logical to write what you think the topic should be locked for - and you already wrote that in your post "OP is troll, no proofs, no signed messages". Although keep in mind that mods don't have to share your opinion and won't do anything.
Is such a free interpretation suitable for a report? I thought the report should be short. It turns out there is no single standard form for reports? Please do not evade away from newbie answers and provide at least a sample of a correct report

I wonder signing a message is no more important then placing a fractional coin in the address then withdrawing it.

 it is more costly to more in 0.0001 and then pull out 0.0001 although he could set it to 1 sat per byte and would lock it up  at no cost to with draw it.

But I am thinking how did the money get pulled from a core wallet as described by him I am not so sure what was done to pull it.

He claims it was not launched so I am not sure how it could be taken if it is not launched.

other then the hacker had full control of the pc via remote like anydesk.
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November 25, 2023, 11:40:38 AM
Talked to my wife.  She tried to install a voice changer software yesterday from a link on twitter and it didn't install.  This is a windows 11 PC.  I see something new called WingFtpServer as a startup program. That has to be it. C'est la vie  Embarrassed 
I think this is what initiated since your wife doesn't have computer knowledge about the do'"S and dont'S of crypto but the first mistake started from you for not using a hardware wallet or airgap computer to hold the Bitcoin.
With that being said, there is no connection between the server software and the voice changer your wife downloaded.
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November 25, 2023, 10:30:56 AM
11 BTC? Damn. That's a lot of money for people like me and I must say that you are handling this really, really well since losing that amount would most probably shake me to the core.

If you weren't using that amount actively for various purposes, I must say that it was pretty dumb of you to leave it in an online wallet as some of the posters above mentioned. All the best trying to recover your stash.
That Bitcoin was hacked, it's not like he lost access to it, so I don't think there's a chance of him getting it back . But I seriously doubt that anyone who owns such a large amount of bitcoin would store it so carelessly.
Bitcoin has great value these days and people who own bitcoin know about it. So it would be unbelievable if someone said they stored those bitcoins on a computer that was constantly online and didn't take any precautions . OP provided the wallet address but I don't believe it until he signs the message to prove he really owns it like some people are asking.
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November 25, 2023, 10:28:59 AM
The fact that someone allegedly had 11 BTC does not mean that this person must know how to sign a message or that he has any broader knowledge about Bitcoin. I have personally seen a lot of people who bought BTC a long time ago and then found themselves in a situation where they did not know even the most basic things, and these were not trolls, but people who really had the BTC they were talking about. Possession of something and knowledge about it do not have to be related to each other.
You are absolutely right in this statement. But that doesn't mean my assumption is wrong.

And if you are finished, then I hope you don’t mind me expressing my vision of the situation in more detail?:

I believe that OP did not lose any bitcoins. I propose OP simply made up this sad story so that out of pity or solidarity they would pour him merits. He didn't succeed. I’m glad that the forum’s audience is getting smarter every year and is less and less susceptible to such provocations

I also do not exclude other theories, the proposal of Pmalek also makes sense:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63217689
It would be logical to write what you think the topic should be locked for - and you already wrote that in your post "OP is troll, no proofs, no signed messages". Although keep in mind that mods don't have to share your opinion and won't do anything.
Is such a free interpretation suitable for a report? I thought the report should be short. It turns out there is no single standard form for reports? Please do not evade away from newbie answers and provide at least a sample of a correct report
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