Topic: Is it illegal for someone to hack my BTC wallet? - page 8. (Read 15271 times)
This may be my opinion,, whatever form hack is theft and not justified, even if the act was illegal and not justified but to entrap him with the rule of law is a bit complicated, of course, go back to the state where the rules and regulations of legal sanction applied in the country to the hack
I'm not clear on this one point. If somebody got a hold of my private key and moved funds from an address that I claimed on the ledger, is that against the law? At what point could that be considered a crime? For example, if they hacked into my machine and stolen the private key; if they sniped the pk while snooping on a public access connection; brute forced the pk into existence; or just plane snapped a shot of my qr code over my shoulder....ect In which of those examples could I pursue prosecution for the theft of my coin?
My country does not have a law about it, they dont even know about bitcoin. So thats not illegal in my country. i think
but hacking to machine and stole the private key is too hard work making it..
My true story about hacked is, when i press ctrl+c/copy my btc address..everything i ctrl+v/paste is different btc address..
i realize an app/link auto installing registry about paste thing..so beware guys..
Hackers are thief so i will consider it as illegal by the law or not.. for me it is illegal and if you are hacking an account or btc wallet it is a bad habit..
And you can be arrested by nbi if you caught.
If you are planning to hack it is not a good idea it is better to work or find a job..
And you can be arrested by nbi if you caught.
If you are planning to hack it is not a good idea it is better to work or find a job..
Yes it is true that they are thief but that is your opinion and not general neither is it binding on anyone and moreover they dont care about your opinion of course if they do, they woudnt continue hacking but the issue is that my opinion about a thief does not bring him to book or face justice. Its the legal and if that part is not established, every other things is just a wish that cant move dust.
I have no idea about this so I wanted to know it also. All I know is, if you own a BTC address for a certain wallet you are responsible to take care of it. So don't let hackers have a single information about your account. You should keep it secured all the time like what I have done in my blockchain wallet, I applied all the available security features of it.
I my country unauthorized access to computers, aka as hacking is illegal in itself, and stealing digital goods is illegal too, documents, files, account information, so I suppose bitcoin is also included, but the problem is prosecution of those crimes is very difficult to implement.
In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.
Every country has its own cyber crime law, they differ from each other, but some country adopt other countries law, so some might be the same, but most of them only has a small claw and limited to what was written only on the said law, now, if cyber crime law in a certain country was made before the dawn of the bitcoin, then bitcoin wasn't in it, except if something in bitcoin that is mention in it, and only lawyers are the best at linking things just by words. I also think that if there is a revision of said laws, and it includes bitcoin, then there is a chance.
Big question there is, where country will you file your case?
Again, if there is no law prohibiting the hack of bitcoin wallet, then all you can do is cry!!!
of course its illegal
In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.
Every country has its own cyber crime law, they differ from each other, but some country adopt other countries law, so some might be the same, but most of them only has a small claw and limited to what was written only on the said law, now, if cyber crime law in a certain country was made before the dawn of the bitcoin, then bitcoin wasn't in it, except if something in bitcoin that is mention in it, and only lawyers are the best at linking things just by words. I also think that if there is a revision of said laws, and it includes bitcoin, then there is a chance.
Big question there is, where country will you file your case?
Again, if there is no law prohibiting the hack of bitcoin wallet, then all you can do is cry!!!
In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.
From where I stand, it will be illegal if only you can prove it in law i.e a particular law that covers you and him and also the subject matter which is Bitcoin then you can prove it in law but the issue now is how much has been hacked? that will worth all the trouble to locate the hacker, sue him to court and then make him pay which is now beyond your own power. Even the big hackings with lots of BTCs going down the drain, what happen to it and how far the case has gone?
Hackers are thief so i will consider it as illegal by the law or not.. for me it is illegal and if you are hacking an account or btc wallet it is a bad habit.. And you can be arrested by nbi if you caught.
If you are planning to hack it is not a good idea it is better to work or find a job..
From where I stand, it will be illegal if only you can prove it in law i.e a particular law that covers you and him and also the subject matter which is Bitcoin then you can prove it in law but the issue now is how much has been hacked? that will worth all the trouble to locate the hacker, sue him to court and then make him pay which is now beyond your own power. Even the big hackings with lots of BTCs going down the drain, what happen to it and how far the case has gone?
Steal private keys that act is prohibited because it is harmful to others. But it can not be classified to a legal or illegal act, because the legal or illegal an act must have action from the government. While some countries have banned the bitcoin, let use bitcoin, and bitcoin allow. I believe every country has different regulations making it illegal or legal depending on the policy of each country. If you want take action may be easier if a state legalizes bitcoin because in case something would get legal protection, but if the state declares illegal bitcoin be impossible to prosecute because the state had previously been banned.
In countries with roman law system and no regulation of bitcoin this wouldn't be considered as crime anyway, because there is no precedent in the law system. However, if you take Great Britain which starts to regulate Bitcoin now and has precedent in the law system, I guess it can be consudered in the court and you can try to do something about such a case. Well, at least, it can work theoretically.
i do not think that it is legal for any one, i think it iis totally illegal and it is just like stealy some one property or some one bank account, which is really illegal. therefore hacking of some one bitcoin wallets is totally illegal.
Of course this is illegal.
Its theft of digital goods.
agree with you. hacking is illegal activity in fact hacking belonging to crime. in my country there are laws for hackers, on the laws hacker will be punished. so, of course hacking is illegal and include crime. Its theft of digital goods.
Yes it's illegal in 99% or more in the world, that's like hacking a creditcard and even hacking a computer not belonging to you is illegal therefore of course hacking something holding money is illegal, following the hacker is pretty tricky though.
Yes indeed if someone were to hack BTC wallet was included in the act of theft in technology in my opinion. Maybe it could be categorized into illegal activities, but there has been no legal action either to take action against such action and no responsibility to replace from the parties involved, so that you can do is keep your account information and well.
hacking into someones wallet is illegal but i don't know whether it is really that easy to prove the hack ,if that was easy then the hackers that hacked accounts in major exchanges would have being inside a cell,until and unless the hacker leave behind some clues it is hard to recover the lost coins
yes there is no doubt about this because hacking of bitcoin wallet is just like if some one is going to hack your bank account, although you cannot complaint against this .
It is not only illegal, but it is a crime. Although the peculiarities of such a crime depend on the given law of the applicable territory, by principle in all (at least democratic) jurisdictions, refraining someone of the possession of his/her property is deemed to be a crime. The debate, whether bitcoin is money, commodity or something in between is not relevant here. The fact is that someone is its owner through regular means of obtaining such property, without damaging the position of others.
Criminal Law requires the existence of actus reus and mens rea in the case. What i have described was the actus reus, which is taking over the control of property without the will of its owner.
Now, mens rea means the mind of a criminal. That means that the person who perpetrated the actus reus was doing it willingly, presupposedly knowing about the consequences and presupposedly knowing that such an act was against the interests and the will of the owner of the property.
Therefore it does not matter how Bitcoin was taken from someone's wallet. Even if the private key was negligently on the owner's work desk, it is a crime using it for anyone else, without the permission of the owner.
Criminal Law requires the existence of actus reus and mens rea in the case. What i have described was the actus reus, which is taking over the control of property without the will of its owner.
Now, mens rea means the mind of a criminal. That means that the person who perpetrated the actus reus was doing it willingly, presupposedly knowing about the consequences and presupposedly knowing that such an act was against the interests and the will of the owner of the property.
Therefore it does not matter how Bitcoin was taken from someone's wallet. Even if the private key was negligently on the owner's work desk, it is a crime using it for anyone else, without the permission of the owner.
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