Topic: Got hacked, lost 11 BTC - page 8. (Read 1609 times)

I'm very sorry for you, I can't even image how you feel right now. I don't store any bitcoin information on my computer but if I were, I would never let anyone use it, not even to check his/her Facebook or email. A friend of mine lost a few bitcoins because his mother used once his computer, I don't remeber what se did, I think she clicked on some link she wasn't supposed to and they stole everything.

If you have not installed that voice changer software, the hacker will not be able to easily access your bitcoins.
Wing FTP Server is a multi-operating system software that you can use to manage and supports multiple file transfer protocols such as FTP, FTPS, and SFTP. The program itself is not a virus, but if you connect to a server that has viruses, it may be downloaded to your device, but you still need administrator privileges to execute it. again, without executing these programs, it is difficult to be hacked unless you do it indirectly, such as Clipboard Hijacker Malware.

Sorry for the loss OP, I know nobody is above mistakes because for some thing like this to happened for 11 Bitcoin to disappear from your core wallets, show that some thing strange happened to your personal details before but you didn't notice it before the incident happen. But 11 Bitcoin is not advisable for someone to store huge amount of Bitcoin on online wallet, because there are some details your siblings or your wife will discover and it will give them access to your coins immediately and they will withdraw everything at the moment. Well, this is a lesson to those that like holding huge amount of coins on their online wallet where there are many offline wallets secure and safe for any amount of coins.

Well, the hacker obviously got hold of the password... to be able to do that. Did you leave your computer running for extended times without watching it? (They could have installed keyboard logging tools and waited for you to leave the room and then logged in and transferred the funds)  

The bulk of my "treasure" are stored off-line so I know that it will not be accessible .....and it is split into smaller amounts, so even if someone hack me, they will only get access to say 1% of my coins.

I also put out "bait" in the form of small amounts of coins in desktop wallets ...so if that is triggered, then I know I am being targeted.

Sorry for your loss.  

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 would like to believe you, but many accounts claim to have lost Bitcoin. Therefore, to make the discussion serious, can you sign a message from a Bitcoin address proving that 11 Bitcoins were sent from that address in the past days?

Have you updated Bitcoin Core and verified the signature? By reviewing your previous posts, you mentioned that you purchased Bitcoin in 2013. Perhaps you did not download the correct software.

We need more information to be able to piece together what happened.

The Bitcoin Core was running on what OS?

What were you doing around the time of the theft?

Bitcoin Core wallets are protected by a password, they don't use seed phrase technology but rely on some "hdseed" that's similar but will not be encrypted without a password. Therefore if the wallet file is stolen, it can be brute-forced for weak passwords.

Sorry for the loss. But why have huge amount of coins on an online wallet? The safest wallets are offline/cold and multisig wallets. If you know you can not run your node with cold wallets or with multisig, do not have huge amount of coins on it.

I checked your post history, and you seem to be playing with altcoins a lot. Maybe you installed an altcoin wallet with malicious code in it? With that said, unless you truly know what you're doing, it's quite careless to have 11 BTC on Bitcoin Core on a personal device.

Anyway, good luck moving forward.

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