Topic: I was hacked (1170btc stolen) - 500btc max BOUNTY - page 13. (Read 35693 times)
I've got to say that this topic is fairly popular. I don't know if its due to people like to read about misery of others or it is quite sensational news for majority of this forum I think. One question, with so many btc how the hell your security was so low
legendary
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Back in the day (2012) I kept a copy of my Litecoin wallet in my email as a backup. This was when they were worth much much less in total than now.
Glad I moved the coins in 2012 and did not leave them there.
I think due to all of the hacking and bad news of people losing money to scams and hackings it forced me to be waaaay more cautious with my coins.
Everything is locked down and not easily accessed.
Security is THE most important aspect of Bitcoin.
Sorry for the OP's loss.
I would be willing to send you ONE of my 2013 gold plated 1 oz silver 1 BTC coins (unfunded of course) assembled with the Lealana Bitcoin hologram etc for free sent via regular first-class mail. If you want it of course.
PM me your email so I can get your information.
Aloha,
Smoothie
Glad I moved the coins in 2012 and did not leave them there.
I think due to all of the hacking and bad news of people losing money to scams and hackings it forced me to be waaaay more cautious with my coins.
Everything is locked down and not easily accessed.
Security is THE most important aspect of Bitcoin.
Sorry for the OP's loss.
I would be willing to send you ONE of my 2013 gold plated 1 oz silver 1 BTC coins (unfunded of course) assembled with the Lealana Bitcoin hologram etc for free sent via regular first-class mail. If you want it of course.
PM me your email so I can get your information.
Aloha,
Smoothie
Any chance you can teach us your security ?
I am always on 2FA but is it same enought ?
2FA is better than no 2FA....but cold storage is better.
AA = Andreas Antonopolous.
AA may be one the few decent humans left in the BTC world. The day he leaves blockchain.info is the day I leave bitcoin altogether.
lol who? 
I do recommend you get the word out. Send an email to some of the Bitcoin news networks so they at least write a post about it. If you have any more btc get them safe right away, no excuses.
Other then that I don't think you can get them back to be honest.
Other then that I don't think you can get them back to be honest.
You won't see too much at the top off any bitcoin related news site that pertains to theft. Most bitcoin related sites are heavily vested in bitcoin and are reluctant to promote thefts as news; as this decreases adoption. I've seen it happen multiple times on reddit and this forum. Thefts/hacks get buried in sub-forums and downvoted on reddit.
Bitcoin is the wild west of financial markets right now. We have some growing up to do as a community. Those with vested interests do not want bad news on the front page. If you want to hold bitcoin; HODL it CODL.
EDIT: this has been moved to services discussion in order to not have talk of theft/hack on the front page of bitcointalk.org. This is important; and moving it from the main forum is bullshit. Exactly what service is being discussed in this thread for you mods out there? Are we discussing dropbox? It's no wonder AA left the foundation. The foundation is a bunch of new's skewers and political panderers. AA may be one the few decent humans left in the BTC world. The day he leaves blockchain.info is the day I leave bitcoin altogether.
Back in the day (2012) I kept a copy of my Litecoin wallet in my email as a backup. This was when they were worth much much less in total than now.
Glad I moved the coins in 2012 and did not leave them there.
I think due to all of the hacking and bad news of people losing money to scams and hackings it forced me to be waaaay more cautious with my coins.
Everything is locked down and not easily accessed.
Security is THE most important aspect of Bitcoin.
Sorry for the OP's loss.
I would be willing to send you ONE of my 2013 gold plated 1 oz silver 1 BTC coins (unfunded of course) assembled with the Lealana Bitcoin hologram etc for free sent via regular first-class mail. If you want it of course.
PM me your email so I can get your information.
Aloha,
Smoothie
Glad I moved the coins in 2012 and did not leave them there.
I think due to all of the hacking and bad news of people losing money to scams and hackings it forced me to be waaaay more cautious with my coins.
Everything is locked down and not easily accessed.
Security is THE most important aspect of Bitcoin.
Sorry for the OP's loss.
I would be willing to send you ONE of my 2013 gold plated 1 oz silver 1 BTC coins (unfunded of course) assembled with the Lealana Bitcoin hologram etc for free sent via regular first-class mail. If you want it of course.
PM me your email so I can get your information.
Aloha,
Smoothie
Any chance you can teach us your security ?
I am always on 2FA but is it same enought ?
If you want to hold bitcoin; HODL it CODL.
good one. gonna start using that.
Thank you. The past few months in the BTC world have been a bit trying for me as well - although not nearly to the tune of the OP.
But the biggest mistake op made was storing his password in plain text doesn't matter where its stored on an offline computer or on a cloud you should never have your wallet passwords stored in plain text.
Tips for other users:
use password safe http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ or
keepassx http://www.keepassx.org/ -where passwords are stored in an encrypted database.
Tips for other users:
use password safe http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ or
keepassx http://www.keepassx.org/ -where passwords are stored in an encrypted database.
Tips for other users: Use paper that looks like trash. Put the paper in an envelope. Tell no one. Don't use online services to store valuable information. If you need digital backups, use Tails with a persistent drive that is encrypted and store it locally.
I'm really sorry for the OP's loss. Thieves are dirt, but it's not a bad idea to sweep your goodies under a rug somewhere.
legendary
Activity: 1302
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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political
If you want to hold bitcoin; HODL it CODL.
good one. gonna start using that.
I do recommend you get the word out. Send an email to some of the Bitcoin news networks so they at least write a post about it. If you have any more btc get them safe right away, no excuses.
Other then that I don't think you can get them back to be honest.
Other then that I don't think you can get them back to be honest.
You won't see too much at the top off any bitcoin related news site that pertains to theft. Most bitcoin related sites are heavily vested in bitcoin and are reluctant to promote thefts as news; as this decreases adoption. I've seen it happen multiple times on reddit and this forum. Thefts/hacks get buried in sub-forums and downvoted on reddit.
Bitcoin is the wild west of financial markets right now. We have some growing up to do as a community. Those with vested interests do not want bad news on the front page. If you want to hold bitcoin; HODL it CODL.
I enjoyed reading this above, so:
"the hacker may also want to think about how the advance of technology is going to make locating assholes like him easier over the next few years. He may be able to hide today, but in a year or 2, will he still be able to? He can't cash out to a bank account and he cant buy anything useful with the BTC without leaving clues to his irl identity, so all he has is a pile of semi-useless BTC and a massive manhunt on his ass. The current 500 BTC bounty is very motivating and provides more than enough cash to finance some very effective action, no matter where in the world the thief might be. Klee just has to keep up the pressure and wait for the mistake. Hope the thieving dipshit is having fun right now.......because it isn't going to last."
"the hacker may also want to think about how the advance of technology is going to make locating assholes like him easier over the next few years. He may be able to hide today, but in a year or 2, will he still be able to? He can't cash out to a bank account and he cant buy anything useful with the BTC without leaving clues to his irl identity, so all he has is a pile of semi-useless BTC and a massive manhunt on his ass. The current 500 BTC bounty is very motivating and provides more than enough cash to finance some very effective action, no matter where in the world the thief might be. Klee just has to keep up the pressure and wait for the mistake. Hope the thieving dipshit is having fun right now.......because it isn't going to last."
Not to give the guy too many ideas, or encourage others on the forum, but I just want to point out that this is incorrect.
Let me use an example:-
In short
1) send a multitude of periodic transactions to obscure exchanges with small amounts to different accounts, maybe use new ones every time ( there are tons of other exchanges now, much smaller and discreet than the big ones, all reputable)
2) Sell coins and send fiat to numbered accounts of unregistered visa cards
3) Go to ATMs and cash out
4) As an extra layer of security, rotate the ATMs you use.
And to top it all off, there is no guarantee the hacker is in a jurisdiction in which the hackeds' country's laws have effect, so even if you find him, short of illegal means, there is little recourse.
Hacker send them here and I will return them.
1BLazedp2eGDrDM3NMbxkn7n4PCCk6WYVX
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LOL, he's doing a giveaway to get support and help cleaning his coins.
What a haul though, sorry to the previous custodian.
As for the new custodian, feel pity on the man, split him some coin, even with just half, or 25%, you would greatly ease his misery and still go to town on what you'll have left.
What a haul though, sorry to the previous custodian.
As for the new custodian, feel pity on the man, split him some coin, even with just half, or 25%, you would greatly ease his misery and still go to town on what you'll have left.
Can you imagine how much pressure he/she must be under knowing these is a $300,000 bounty on his/her head?
Every noise must be analysed - is it something new, or just the regular sounds of the house? Is there someone outside?
If our hacker lives in a city, any time he/she hears a siren, he must freeze. Is it past yet? Feeling the sweat streaming down his back. Can he escape through the window? Why is his chest so tight? Will he fight? Will he pretend he knows nothing if apprehended?
Who is after him? Did he make any mistakes? Did he try to log into the dropbox a few days before, without being behind tor. Is that logged? Is he sure his IP hasn't been revealed somewhere? Is it even possible to be truly traceless? As a hacker, he knows it's not possible.
Listening to the silence hacker?
Every noise must be analysed - is it something new, or just the regular sounds of the house? Is there someone outside?
If our hacker lives in a city, any time he/she hears a siren, he must freeze. Is it past yet? Feeling the sweat streaming down his back. Can he escape through the window? Why is his chest so tight? Will he fight? Will he pretend he knows nothing if apprehended?
Who is after him? Did he make any mistakes? Did he try to log into the dropbox a few days before, without being behind tor. Is that logged? Is he sure his IP hasn't been revealed somewhere? Is it even possible to be truly traceless? As a hacker, he knows it's not possible.
Listening to the silence hacker?
Where I came out of, people got shot for hundreds of dollars.
This hacker is clearly a computer chair hacker in that he has no idea how the rest of the criminal world works.
Stealing that amount if bitcoin is so stupid because of the way bitcoin can be tracked.
The hackers need only make one small mistake and he will be busted. His best hope is to return the btc. His second best hope is that the police catch him. The last and worse option is three large dudes show up to collect the bounty. What isn't an option is that the hacker gets to live happily ever after spending the coins.
My prediction is that the hacker is in jail or dead in less than two weeks.
Are you panicking Mr hacker? Did you think it was going to be so easy? RIP
It looks like they are in a mixer.
All he is doing is breaking them down into multiple multiple smaller amounts with a script (which seems to break every so often, as we are up to 10 confirmations on the 400BTC and 210BTC). The origins of the coins are still clear, so no mixing is happening.He may not be confident to use a mixer, as he may not sure if the mixing service will freeze his funds (obviously stolen funds).
Have BITMIXER.IO made any comment on whether they are happy to mix obviously stolen coins?
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There has to be a way to track down stolen btc like this. If there isn't a way, there should be..
That would mean breaking bitcoin fungibility.
All-right mr hacker. If you are reading this. I provide escrow for the community. I have a very strong rep. I would be more than happy to escrow the return of these funds. If you send all of the bitcoins to my escrow address 1JrRTBauRZoeSPeyokCh76ZxikzppUBhhA I will have successfully recovered the coins and so will be entitled to 500 bitcoins. I will send 250 of them to you and keep 250 for myself. Check my rep thread in the signature. I can make this all go away. Think about it.
First, its obvious that the hacker is watching this thread. Who knows, he/she could have even posted. I thought there was a way to send the stolen btc to all the exchanges and basically have them marked. Is that possible or not? There has to be a way to track down stolen btc like this. If there isn't a way, there should be..
This should be a wake up call to everyone. Secure the shit out of your coin. Encrypt everything at the very least and use armory for added security..
I really feel for the op. I would be sick..
This should be a wake up call to everyone. Secure the shit out of your coin. Encrypt everything at the very least and use armory for added security..
I really feel for the op. I would be sick..
And do it old-school IRA style......Black and Decker!
I have a solution!
>>> MESSAGE TO HACKER >>>
Send me the 1170 bitcoins to:
19kcFZjemHoN5QZGbYo3WuY4frxCvs13PH
I will send klee 670 bitcoins and will share the bounty 50/50 with you. Manhunt cancelled and you get to keep 250 bitcoins. Problem solved.
>>> MESSAGE TO HACKER >>>
Send me the 1170 bitcoins to:
19kcFZjemHoN5QZGbYo3WuY4frxCvs13PH
I will send klee 670 bitcoins and will share the bounty 50/50 with you. Manhunt cancelled and you get to keep 250 bitcoins. Problem solved.
Code:
Joe Six Pack
19kcFZjemHoN5QZGbYo3WuY4frxCvs13PH
HFnIT/ecua1AdpBaiG+C+/N7fdzi2gihrAZmYsspb14VSQmtsX2f+hgZ0w9Ez8NCCsj6nhIslWy/8Ociat3R7YY=
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The hacker wants to know if he can send you 920 (keeping his 250 part of the bounty) since it's easier and he doesn't trust you.
Then: Manhunt cancelled....
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