Topic: I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen) - page 32. (Read 381810 times)

Hi everyone. I am totally devastated today. I just woke up to see a very large chunk of my bitcoin balance gone to the following address:


1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsyFqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg

Transaction date: 6/13/2011 12:52 (EST)


I feel like killing myself now (edit: a little too dramatic, I'm since calmed down a bit) . If only the wallet file was encrypted on the HD. I do feel like this is my fault for not moving that money to a separate non windows computer. I backed up my wallet.dat file religiously and encrypted it but that does not do me much good when someone or some trojan or something had direct access to my computer somehow.

The theft occurred right after someone broke into my slush's pool account. In a moment of sheer stupidity I did not think that maybe my whole system was compromised. I merely thought that someone brute forced my slush's pool password. I then proceeded to change the password on the pool from a secure computer.

The transaction sent belongs rightfully to this address: 1J18yk7D353z3gRVcdbS7PV5Q8h5w6oWWG

Block explorer is down so I cannot even see where the funds went. Edit: It's working now and I'm keeping an eye on it.

I tried restoring an earler backup of my wallet but naturally that does not work because the transaction has already been validated.

If anyone have any ideas what I can do, tips, tools, ways of tracking the stolen funds or anything of use please do share with me here on this thread PM me.

Edit: Screenshots available here:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.msg215996#msg215996

Edit: I'd like to thank those that came up with constructive comments and suggestions.

Let this be an example to take the security of your wallet.dat files very seriously. I never thought bitcoin would attract criminals so quickly but yet here it is.

Update: You can keep track of my stolen coins via these 3 links:

http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/allinvain-transactions.txt

http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/allinvain-addresses.txt

http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/allinvain-transactions-addresses.txt

Update: The latest bitcoin tracking info can be found here - http://allinvain.4shared.com

I've also shared the C program that I used to track them. Hope you find it useful somehow.