I am seeing a lot of HACKED/STOLEN BTC recently

peonminer

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Quote from: papaminer on September 30, 2013, 10:41:33 PM

I am not really that active in this forum anymore...

but when I came back today...

I am seeing a lot of hacked/stolen BTC... which is very unfortunate to those people who lost their HARD EARNED BTC....

So what is going on really?

From what I can see... all the hacks were from "ONLINE WALLET"....

someone requests a password reset and such... so these online wallets will send the generic password to the email...

"WHICH" the hacker already have access to the victims EMAIL... so they see the password and go login at the ONLINE WALLET and send out all BTC....

WHICH THE WICKED?

papaminer

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The hack was done in a very old fashion way...

EMAIL HACKING....

if the email used in ONLINE WALLET was access by the hacker...

the hacker can "REQUEST PASSWORD RESET" to the online wallet...

thus giving the hacker the password to access all the BTC...

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Quote from: b!z on October 01, 2013, 08:00:36 AM

The only good wallet is a cold wallet, if you do it right.

Guess what. There are people who actually use bitcoins Tongue

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Quote from: Mooshire on October 01, 2013, 08:01:01 AM

Quote from: MoneyGod on October 01, 2013, 07:59:23 AM

Quote from: Mooshire on October 01, 2013, 07:34:03 AM

Always take as many precautions as you can

but still have many problems as few days back I was online and have email from Google that I send 0.5 btc to someone which I never done and as I was in my wallet all gone

If you're going to use an online wallet, inputs.io is the most secure against outside hackers. I use the combination of a strong password, 2FA and GPG auth.

now I am going to give try inputs what this done hope all will ok and good for me which I have never seen in last few months

Mooshire

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Quote from: MoneyGod on October 01, 2013, 07:59:23 AM

Quote from: Mooshire on October 01, 2013, 07:34:03 AM

Always take as many precautions as you can

but still have many problems as few days back I was online and have email from Google that I send 0.5 btc to someone which I never done and as I was in my wallet all gone

If you're going to use an online wallet, inputs.io is the most secure against outside hackers. I use the combination of a strong password, 2FA and GPG auth.

b!z

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The only good wallet is a cold wallet, if you do it right.

MoneyGod

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Quote from: Mooshire on October 01, 2013, 07:34:03 AM

Always take as many precautions as you can

but still have many problems as few days back I was online and have email from Google that I send 0.5 btc to someone which I never done and as I was in my wallet all gone

Mooshire

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Always take as many precautions as you can

ldtran26

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Bitcoin definitely wasn't made for the average consumer. I got scammed a couple of times also and lost btc because of it. always thought of it as a live and learn lesson. That's one of the reasons my people are hesitant about bitcoin

MoneyGod

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Quote from: tunctioncloud on October 01, 2013, 01:23:59 AM

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Where do you see them, and how do you know they were stolen?

Hacked - lost 1.22 bitcoins
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hacked-lost-122-bitcoins-305166

Please help me to recover my 1.26 BTC
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/please-help-me-to-recover-my-126-btc-305436

oh yeah, that is pretty much normal sadly.

people get robbed everyday no matter what currency they use.

but its happening too much in those days with blockchain and some other online and offline wallets which is very strange

marcotheminer

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Sucks

now even happening with digital currency Sad

Lethn

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This is what you get when you have a bunch of noobs flooding the place that don't know anything about internet security and store online wallets that don't have any encryption and aren't backed up offline.

tunctioncloud

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Where do you see them, and how do you know they were stolen?

Hacked - lost 1.22 bitcoins
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hacked-lost-122-bitcoins-305166

Please help me to recover my 1.26 BTC
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/please-help-me-to-recover-my-126-btc-305436

papaminer

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I am not really that active in this forum anymore...

but when I came back today...

I am seeing a lot of hacked/stolen BTC... which is very unfortunate to those people who lost their HARD EARNED BTC....

So what is going on really?

From what I can see... all the hacks were from "ONLINE WALLET"....

someone requests a password reset and such... so these online wallets will send the generic password to the email...

"WHICH" the hacker already have access to the victims EMAIL... so they see the password and go login at the ONLINE WALLET and send out all BTC....

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