The OP has yet to provide a signed message from the supposed addresses that were hacked, and even if he does, it's still not 100% valid proof that the money was indeed stolen, as it can be a transaction conducted by himself. With that being said, I have my doubts regarding the validity of this story. Why would anyone have 11 Bitcoins on his Windows 11 laptop, which can be accessed by other people in their household? Anyone with such an amount of money would simply buy a hardware wallet for $100 or at least have isolated his wallet on a Linux OS.
I'm sorry, but it sounds like an episode on things that never happened. If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry for your loss; no one deserves it, even if they neglected their safety.
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In any case, the bastards are the hackers
If op were the holder of our coins, then the stolen funds of the would be returned back to the victim and wallets of these hackers would be immediately blockedSucks.
This really sucks
Wow that really sucks.
I completely agree with all of you. BTC - is irreversible sucks.since the op has yet to clearly prove this loss
I think that op is worried about his privacy. Most likely he will not reveal his wallet address. I don’t see any other reasons why op gives out so little informationyeah I was being playful with you as I don’t think you created the thread to make your reversibility point.
Btc is not irreversible it is stated to be irreversible but it can be changed as yours was.
btc could also say all stale wallets with no withdrawals will be considered abandoned after fifty years.
A lot more can be done to fuck with it.
as for reversing txs when eth reversed the large hack it fucked up my eth wallet and dispite a lot of effort to rebuild and recover those coins are lost to me 2eth.
So if I lose two coins of your coin due to theft do I send you an email recover my coins.
how easy is recovery.
Btw reversibility sucks if you sell something and the buy lies to get a refund.
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
If you don't know how to sign messages maybe this can help you. How to sign a message?!It's regrettable to lose 11 BTC that's a huge amount we thought, but why not choose a cold wallet as suggested by others as it's not worth such a huge asset but keeping it in a hot wallet which might be vulnerable to hacker attacks when you experience its negligence.
It's just a lesson because it's impossible to get coins back, so in the future, be more careful.
Hope you don't get depressed.
I think the website this hack came from was
voice dot testyteste dot com
voice dot testyteste dot com
So, when I open this I get an immediate block and notification from my AV software.
Site en.softaipro.fun blocked, detected botnet.
What were you looking for at that site?
I often tell people that they shouldn't use the computer where they store their coins for anything dangerous, like opening emails, installing unknown software, downloading torrents, unpacking files, connecting thumb drives and other external drives, and so on.
Edit: I missed the message where you said your wife was fooling around with a voice changer. Sorry for your loss. I just hope as many people as possible see this thread and learn from it.
At the very least guys, if you don't want to buy a hardware wallet or you don't want a paper wallet, or a cold storage in the form of wallet file on an an offline device, make sure you have a decent anti virus software and you keep your PC clean. No suspicious sites, no porn, no unofficial software, you know what I'm talking about.
This is truly sad. That's a lot of money and can be the type of fortune that everyone desires. The website you've given is even an unknown one and this usually the case from the people that got hacked. They have visited random websites and probably downloaded something and they're warned by their computer about malicious file is gonna be downloaded and yet proceeded the process. It is unlikely that you did nothing and then you got hacked, there must be some websites, apps or anything that you have unnoticed did.
That's a huge amount you have lost. I can't imagine your feelings, but all I can say for now is better luck next time, and do not hesitate to do anything that you can against that hacker because giving up on something will not bring it back anyway. I know that by not giving up, the chances of getting funds back are also near zero, but doing something rather than doing nothing is far better. And you must have some bravery, as you were holding 11 BTC all at one place.
If I were at your place, I would not hesitate to make 11 or 22 different wallets and then keep 1 or 0.5 BTC in them accordingly. I do realise that the creation and management of 11 or 22 wallets is not an easy task, but it is worth the money.
And you should provide a transaction detail here, so we can verify. If you already provided it in some reply, then I suggest you edit the post and provide the hash or your address there. So new readers find it easy to verify your statements. And if you are sure that you did not do anything vulnerable on your device or shared your password or key with anyone, then I don't have any good solutions or advice for you, but these are the only reasons that would have happened.
If I were at your place, I would not hesitate to make 11 or 22 different wallets and then keep 1 or 0.5 BTC in them accordingly. I do realise that the creation and management of 11 or 22 wallets is not an easy task, but it is worth the money.
And you should provide a transaction detail here, so we can verify. If you already provided it in some reply, then I suggest you edit the post and provide the hash or your address there. So new readers find it easy to verify your statements. And if you are sure that you did not do anything vulnerable on your device or shared your password or key with anyone, then I don't have any good solutions or advice for you, but these are the only reasons that would have happened.
If op were the holder of our coins, then the stolen funds of the would be returned back to the victim and wallets of these hackers would be immediately blocked
Is this meant to be an advert for your shitcoin, so confiscating and reversing transactions is meant to be an advert for 'your' coin, how ridiculous, if you can block and return funds, you can also do the same for any transaction and to any address, and anyone who doesn't want to lose their funds has to stay away from shitcoins like yours.BTC is decentralized and censorship resistant, if you have your funds in your self custodial wallet, nobody can block or censor you; that is why we use this network and not yours, take your advert somewhere else.
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
I have absolutely nothing against you, just asked you to stop posting anything until you can prove ownership, even then you can't actually prove you were hacked unless you contact local authorities to investigate, therefore I call bs on your claim, especially when you mention bitcoin core.Still I have nothing against you, but do us a favor and do that, now for time being lock this topic, we don't want more useless comments.
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 
I empathize with you my friend. I thought I read wrongly when you said 11 BTC, and I’m still in shock of what’s lost. But I must commend your strength and ability to bear this. At my position in life, I can’t imagine losing such amount of money. You’re a strong man. Even though it’s gone, I’ll still mention that when you have your crypto wallet and money in it, you have to avoid installing apps and visiting unknown websites. This tip and many more that other forum members will give you will guard you for tomorrow.
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
I think the website this hack came from was
...........
Actually you should stop posting anything other than signed messages using the private key, in fact I might report this topic to be trashed if you fail to do that............
If you have funds in your wallet, transfer them somewhere safe, and sign a message then post them here.
In any case, the bastards are the hackers
If op were the holder of our coins, then the wallets of these hackers would be immediately blocked and the funds would be returned back to the victimSucks.
This really sucks
Wow that really sucks.
I completely agree with all of you. BTC - is irreversible sucks.since the op has yet to clearly prove this loss
I think that op is worried about his privacy. Most likely he will not reveal his wallet address. I don’t see any other reasons why op gives out so little informationAlright, just forget about what I said, man I lost it for a second, Ok, now tell me, do you guys use secp256k1 in your "true" bitcoin network?
If yes, then I might visit you guys soon to check if there is any holes in your blockchain.😉
Omg damm what the big amount loss! So much money has been lost that you should keep your sanity now and put yourself first. How the hacker team collected your wallet information is a matter of thinking. Moreover you might have setup some software from which the hacker team entered your laptop/pc configuration.
11 Bitcoin 
this is really too big amount in present bitcoin price. Why don't you take care of them where we are worried about 0.5 bitcoins where to hold them and where they will be safe. How did I decide to put 11 bitcoins in an online wallet? You should have held them in an offline hardware wallet so maybe you wouldn't have lost so much. Such a big loss really hurts us a lot. And when it is through Bitcoin it is really sad.
this is really too big amount in present bitcoin price. Why don't you take care of them where we are worried about 0.5 bitcoins where to hold them and where they will be safe. How did I decide to put 11 bitcoins in an online wallet? You should have held them in an offline hardware wallet so maybe you wouldn't have lost so much. Such a big loss really hurts us a lot. And when it is through Bitcoin it is really sad. 
In any case, the bastards are the hackers
If op were the holder of our coins, then the stolen funds of the would be returned back to the victim and wallets of these hackers would be immediately blockedSucks.
This really sucks
Wow that really sucks.
I completely agree with all of you. BTC - is irreversible sucks.since the op has yet to clearly prove this loss
I think that op is worried about his privacy. Most likely he will not reveal his wallet address. I don’t see any other reasons why op gives out so little information 
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
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
If you had such a large amount of money then why would you keep it in a place with regulare internet access.
Moreover, why would you give your machine to your wife because it was her mistake to install a third party software.
You shouldn't have let your wife use your machine. Keep a separate machine for regular work or you should have definitely used a hardware wallet instead.
This is close to half a million dollars lost,ouch !!
This was a big loss whichever way we look at this but wanted to ask to help someone not go through the same loss in the future without any finger pointing or playing the blame game . Some questions for better understanding of the situation:
Otherwise, sorry for your loss buddy!
This was a big loss whichever way we look at this but wanted to ask to help someone not go through the same loss in the future without any finger pointing or playing the blame game . Some questions for better understanding of the situation:
- Any other people that have access to your computer besides you and your wife?
- Is the PC always connected to the computer?
- Saw an early post on the thread of you using Altcoins too, do you have desktop wallets of these?
- Do you download stuff on this computer
- Do you have an antivirus on the PC
Otherwise, sorry for your loss buddy!
I've never signed a message before. These were segwit addresses they don't seem to show up in the sign message feature of Bitcoin core GUI. I'll See if I can figure it out.
Not looking for any sympathy. I know I screwed up.
Not looking for any sympathy. I know I screwed up.
please note there is zero evidence this happened.
no tx showing the move.
so take it all with a very large grain of salt.
no tx showing the move.
so take it all with a very large grain of salt.
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
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
First things first, why would you store 11 btc on a hot wallet ? 11 bitcoin is a lot of money, and you should either have a hardware wallet for that purpose or if you are a bit techy, an air gapped device (with no access to the internet) should be configured for your bitcoins.
11 bitcoin is a life's money for someone and there are places in the world where you do not have to work for the rest of your life if you have 11 bitcoins with you
It may well be that at the time of purchase, these 11 bitcoin were not a significant amount and OP neglected to keep them safe, for which he seriously paid. It's a pity.
It’s true that OP should have concentrated all his efforts on the safety of these assets, but now the past can't be returned. Despite such impressive losses, life goes on. I wish OP to grow stronger.
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