looks like i've been hacked - please help me understand what's happening - page 2.

HiTmanSql

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on April 02, 2015, 10:07:02 AM

sorry for that dude. that is a hard lesson.

dont store your coins in a hotwallet. the best thing you can do (as a newbie):

1.) buy a hardware wallet:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/overview-bitcoin-hardware-wallets-secure-your-coins-899253

2. ) split your bitcoin-stack. dont keep all eggs in one....you know.

3.) buy a good antivirus program.

good luck.

would like to know what is a hot wallet?

emrebey

sr. member

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damn, so many people taking that kind of the losses lately. sorry for your loss, nothing to do. Sad

notlist3d

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Quote from: beesa888 on April 02, 2015, 09:31:04 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on April 02, 2015, 12:22:54 PM

what kind of wallet?

I think its called Bitcoin Core or bitcoin-qt? does that make any sense to you?

Yes that is the main client it sounds like. Sadly a lot of the virus/malware target the wallet file.

I'm sorry to hear it was such a costly lesson. In future keep cold storage, and encrypt it. In a perfect world we would not need to but sadly there are a lot of "bad guys" out there.

beesa888

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on April 02, 2015, 12:22:54 PM

what kind of wallet?

I think its called Bitcoin Core or bitcoin-qt? does that make any sense to you?

notlist3d

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Quote from: beesa888 on April 02, 2015, 10:11:50 AM

thanks for the quick response, pretty gutted, i can follow the transaction but don't really know how this were able to do this

Sadly this can not be reversed. Hopefully you can follow it, but chances are they will use a mixer or some other way to hide it.

I suggest others reading this will use cold storage, and be safe with it.

jonald_fyookball

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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political

what kind of wallet?

cr1776

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Quote from: fast2fix on April 02, 2015, 10:56:01 AM

Quote from: beesa888 on April 02, 2015, 10:04:45 AM

so i checked my wallet a couple of days ago and noticed my 50 coins were missing.

i restored my wallet from a backup and after rescanning it showed i only have 0.05 coins left.

almost 50btc where 'sent' unauthorised from my wallet to 1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

https://blockchain.info/address/1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

according the my wallet it matches up on block chain showing 4 transactions. im still trying to follow it, but i have no idea what to do Sad

i was trying to restore for backup and do a double spend, but it looks like its too late for that now...

it looks like they are trying to launder it, anyone else able to dissect anything out of this?

those coins are lost no way to recover them, sorry for your loss. were you using blockchain wallet? it's probably a keylogger that stole your account information.
install malwarebytes and scan your pc and see if it finds any virus/keyloggers.

And even if it does and says it has removed them, don't trust that they are all gone if you are going to store bitcoins on that computer. It is better to re-install the OS to ensure that you are safe.

fast2fix

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Quote from: beesa888 on April 02, 2015, 10:04:45 AM

so i checked my wallet a couple of days ago and noticed my 50 coins were missing.

i restored my wallet from a backup and after rescanning it showed i only have 0.05 coins left.

almost 50btc where 'sent' unauthorised from my wallet to 1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

https://blockchain.info/address/1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

according the my wallet it matches up on block chain showing 4 transactions. im still trying to follow it, but i have no idea what to do Sad

i was trying to restore for backup and do a double spend, but it looks like its too late for that now...

it looks like they are trying to launder it, anyone else able to dissect anything out of this?

those coins are lost no way to recover them, sorry for your loss. were you using blockchain wallet? it's probably a keylogger that stole your account information.
install malwarebytes and scan your pc and see if it finds any virus/keyloggers.

jonnybravo0311

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Mine at Jonny's Pool

Quote from: beesa888 on April 02, 2015, 10:11:50 AM

thanks for the quick response, pretty gutted, i can follow the transaction but don't really know how this were able to do this

Possibilities:
* wallet not encrypted
* key logger on your system
* wallet encrypted with very easy to crack password
* wallet-stealing malware on your system
* wallet stored in publicly accessible location
* RPC ports open to your Bitcoin client
* no RPC password or very weak one
* allow any IP to connect via RPC

Sorry for your loss.

beesa888

newbie

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thanks for the quick response, pretty gutted, i can follow the transaction but don't really know how this were able to do this

LiteCoinGuy

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In Satoshi I Trust

sorry for that dude. that is a hard lesson.

dont store your coins in a hotwallet. the best thing you can do (as a newbie):

1.) buy a hardware wallet:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/overview-bitcoin-hardware-wallets-secure-your-coins-899253

2. ) split your bitcoin-stack. dont keep all eggs in one....you know.

3.) buy a good antivirus program.

good luck.

beesa888

newbie

Activity: 12

Merit: 0

so i checked my wallet a couple of days ago and noticed my 50 coins were missing.

i restored my wallet from a backup and after rescanning it showed i only have 0.05 coins left.

almost 50btc where 'sent' unauthorised from my wallet to 1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

https://blockchain.info/address/1LAosJwSQHmUzNnToPgjLaRTVUHP2WM8Wt

according the my wallet it matches up on block chain showing 4 transactions. im still trying to follow it, but i have no idea what to do Sad

i was trying to restore for backup and do a double spend, but it looks like its too late for that now...

it looks like they are trying to launder it, anyone else able to dissect anything out of this?

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