More than 5 WBTC (BTC) was stolen from my Metamask wallet!!!

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Quote from: ultrloa on July 15, 2022, 06:27:59 AM

Try to check if there's connected platform on your metamask and maybe you can see the reason on why you have been hacked since sometimes exploiters use this to drain the wallets of their victims. Also next time best to get a good hardware wallets because this one give us more guarantee than those type of wallets.

You wont really be able to get hacked even if you do connect your wallet on a specific platform or something like that yet you are still the ones who would really be need to accept or approve everytime you do make

out transactions on your metamask thats why i dont really believe on such scenario.Most of MM wallet hacks are neither on exposed privatekeys or someone accessed their device while their pc is on
or no one is watching and the rest are just pure hoax or cant really be possible.

If none of those things happened then there's no way but only you could make out transactions which is likely the case.

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Try to check if there's connected platform on your metamask and maybe you can see the reason on why you have been hacked since sometimes exploiters use this to drain the wallets of their victims. Also next time best to get a good hardware wallets because this one give us more guarantee than those type of wallets.

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Quote from: Anonylz on July 09, 2022, 01:52:19 PM

You should have opted for a hardware wallet to store probably 90% of your coins and leave 10% on mm for quick access. Very horrible thing to happen to anyone, i can understand your pain.

Yes, he did realize it but it was too late. The hack already happened. Now he learned his lesson because he is now using a hardware wallet to store his remaining coins. A hardware wallet has a better security than common wallets however I think there's still a risk once we connect it online or by doing a transaction so it's still important to check properly before we initiate a transaction.

Quote from: Anonylz on July 09, 2022, 01:52:19 PM

i don't understand why you did not get notification of confirmation when the transaction was being made, isn't mm usually send notification of confirmation when you initiate a transaction! at least that would have notify you of something shady going on in your wallet. I hope you will recover your loss in some other ways.

Yes, metamask always shows a notification if we will confirm the transaction or not but maybe he wasn't online that time and his account is already controlled by someone else so it's always possible for them to allow the transaction and send the coins to their own wallet. I check the hacker's wallet via etherscan and the OP's coins are still there. Maybe there are still ways to recover it? We can try reporting it to the authorities. Let see if they can do something.

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You should have opted for a hardware wallet to store probably 90% of your coins and leave 10% on mm for quick access. Very horrible thing to happen to anyone, i can understand your pain. i don't understand why you did not get notification of confirmation when the transaction was being made, isn't mm usually send notification of confirmation when you initiate a transaction! at least that would have notify you of something shady going on in your wallet. I hope you will recover your loss in some other ways.

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Quote from: Lagduf on June 21, 2022, 08:06:23 PM

You didn't aware if have been installing a software that already contained virus from the hacker. This is the most possible answer for your case. There was no notification on sending from the metamask as this doesn't require 2fa. That's why 2fa implementation in metamask is the most important thing. Storing in exchange site was a bit better rather than metamask. Why do you put all of your money in metamask?
You shall learn a lot from this case. If you are holding bunch of money and better to store it into the exchange sites which so many security verification or cold wallet.

Storing on exchange site wallet is more worth than on a non custodial wallet like metamask? Dont know on where you do get that idea and consideration but its never been recommendable on storing
your funds into any centralized platform on which you dont have the full control of it or simply doesnt really have the private keys or seeds on your wallet which is totally opposite on what we do have
in metamask.It turns out that op did make out some mistake on installing something which it resulted on getting hacked which isnt something new.If you do know about these potential risk
then you would really be that hesitant on downloading something on your pc thats why its really suggested on following those common security measures to at least avoid these kind of circumstances.

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First of all we have to stay away from the illusion that IOS is completely safe and private as shown in their ads, you can find lot of malware apps took down from their app market from time to time so in the meantime all those devices were vulnerable to such hacks, also the phishing attacks can be the most reason for such kind of loss because the hackers are getting smarter everyday so be careful while clicking any links.

IMO, the seeds leaked in someway. Did you entered the seeds into wallet and asked again to enter like more times than usual because this is what commonly followed by the hackers to mask a clone version of a site over real one via links.

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Quote from: hZti on June 20, 2022, 04:00:19 PM

Im very sorry for you loss Shocked

the worst part is that now the hackers have 100k USD more to fund their hacking operation and they will for shure advance more with their stealing. So everyone be careful and never store more than you need in that exact moment on a hot wallet!

Same feeling here , this is why I really hate putting my funds in single wallet because of this kind of situation when Hacking is indeed the worst thing we can ever had in our investments.
maybe this will be a lesson to all of us that there is no really safe wallet if you are only saving in single wallet.
hacker is now a thousand dollars richer while OP is a loser.

Quote from: Cornia on June 26, 2022, 07:46:42 AM

There is no way to keep such a huge amount in a hot wallet. Because we know that the security of these wallets is very weak. You must have used a hardware wallet and you also use a hardware wallet. So why did you store such a large amount in the metamask wallet? You might be spared such a great loss if you are a little more careful than to regret the mistake.

I don't also believe in single wallet storing specially with this High value funds.

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There is no way to keep such a huge amount in a hot wallet. Because we know that the security of these wallets is very weak. You must have used a hardware wallet and you also use a hardware wallet. So why did you store such a large amount in the metamask wallet? You might be spared such a great loss if you are a little more careful than to regret the mistake.

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Hello all,
Thanks for all of your replies. I learned the lesson the hard way. Luckily that's not all the BTC I have. I still have some BTC stored in my Tresor wallet. I will never store crypto in Metamask ever again. I have reformatted both my desktop and laptop and reinstalled fresh Windows. The only thing I am not sure is that if my iPhone has been compromised? I deleted Metamask app on my iPhone and will never ever use it again on my iPhone. But it is enough? If my iPhone is compromised, there may be other things I need to worry about too. Does any of you have suggestion what I should do about my iPhone? I have iPhone 11 Pro with iOS 14.

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Sorry about the loss of your assets but that's a lot of WBTC to be left lurking around in a software wallet in 3 different devices. In this case, you exposed your WBTC to far more risk that if it was in one device.

You say you already have a trezor wallet, why didn't you make full use of it and store your assets in there as soon as you bought the WBTC.

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Quote from: Lagduf on June 21, 2022, 08:06:23 PM

You didn't aware if have been installing a software that already contained virus from the hacker. This is the most possible answer for your case. There was no notification on sending from the metamask as this doesn't require 2fa. That's why 2fa implementation in metamask is the most important thing. Storing in exchange site was a bit better rather than metamask. Why do you put all of your money in metamask?
You shall learn a lot from this case. If you are holding bunch of money and better to store it into the exchange sites which so many security verification or cold wallet.

There's no better choice between Metamask and exchanges if we talking about the security, because both of them have high vulnerable to loss because of not-user fault. Malware, thief, hacker, virus etc will make your funds loss if you keep hold on web wallet and exchanges. Cold wallet or hardware wallet is the only choice if you want to hold for long term with huge amount. Verification isn't really help since they can backdoor it.

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why have to store all btc in one wallet?
I suspect that the metamusk you downloaded in the apple store is not the original one. which makes you lose 5wbtc.
I've also experienced the same thing but in the form of a busd last year, at that time I bought an IDO on nano swap which made their smart contract able to withdraw the balance in the wallet when they interacted with it.

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Hello OP! I'm so sorry that you've to learn the hard way. Hard wallet has always been the best way of storing cryptocurrencies. I believe there are persons making the same mistake. They can as well learn from this.

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You didn't aware if have been installing a software that already contained virus from the hacker. This is the most possible answer for your case. There was no notification on sending from the metamask as this doesn't require 2fa. That's why 2fa implementation in metamask is the most important thing. Storing in exchange site was a bit better rather than metamask. Why do you put all of your money in metamask?
You shall learn a lot from this case. If you are holding bunch of money and better to store it into the exchange sites which so many security verification or cold wallet.

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There's no need to be upset

sorry for your loss,
one point I didn't see other people commenting is that metamask store transactions locally only, so transactions done on phone wouldn't show up on computer and vice versa
only on etherscan which is the block explorer itself

I haven't tested it but almost sure this is how it works.
when you hit "reset transactions" all the transaction history disappears too

high chances that this case was a malware on phone or computer, many users report that metamask mobile is not really safe.

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Quote from: Nrcewker on June 21, 2022, 02:13:47 AM

Quote from: hZti on June 20, 2022, 04:00:19 PM

Im very sorry for you loss Shocked

the worst part is that now the hackers have 100k USD more to fund their hacking operation and they will for shure advance more with their stealing. So everyone be careful and never store more than you need in that exact moment on a hot wallet!

This is a lesson that everyone have learnt now.
Always we should use hardware wallet to store such a large amount of Cryptos.
Really feeling sad for the OP, but nothing can be done. I can understand that the amount was big and might be hard earned, but still we are hopeless.
The hacker might be also very smart, so after taking money from the OP’s wallet, he might used a mixer service to mix the coins and hence his address cannot be traced.
Wishing that this should not happen with anyone in the near future.

For huge balance like this its better to use hardware wallets because this is more safer than any web wallets or apps around. And this is expensive mistake which many people learned off so for the incident happened to OP most provably many people are much careful upon using metamask and also we need to avoid downloading unknown things since this is also one of the method used by hackers to stole the balances on the wallet of their victims.

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Quote from: TimeTeller on June 20, 2022, 05:14:27 PM

Quote from: livingfree on June 20, 2022, 04:11:56 PM

That's a lot and sorry for your loss.

It's not really a good storage to keep your money on a metamask. A small amount would do but having that sums of money, it should have been into a hardware wallet. You should have swapped it into actual btc and not wrapped so that you'll be forced to keep it onto a hardware wallet.

The cause might be that software you've downloaded prior to the hack and whether you use mac os or windows, there has been a lot of hijackers in different app marketplaces.

I think, it is not the metamask itself that failed the security here.
The OP mentioned about installing a software application and at the same time expiring his norton security subscription.
So that case, he was very vulnerable to outside attacks. And how did hackers know about his large crypto funds?
It may be someone that knew him from social media channels, and that they knew he is into crypto with good amount of coins.
Because we don't know the whole story, the hackers may know the OP for all we know.
So aside from securing your funds in your own hardware wallet, make sure you don't disclose your crypto activities in social media.

What I've said about metamask is that it's not really a cool place to store your funds for long. I did mentioned that the cause might be the software that he has downloaded.

It could have been a spyware or malware that was able to penetrated the system and we don't know how they do that but that's where they are expert for, in stealing other people's money.

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Quote from: hZti on June 20, 2022, 04:00:19 PM

Im very sorry for you loss Shocked

the worst part is that now the hackers have 100k USD more to fund their hacking operation and they will for shure advance more with their stealing. So everyone be careful and never store more than you need in that exact moment on a hot wallet!

This is a lesson that everyone have learnt now.
Always we should use hardware wallet to store such a large amount of Cryptos.
Really feeling sad for the OP, but nothing can be done. I can understand that the amount was big and might be hard earned, but still we are hopeless.
The hacker might be also very smart, so after taking money from the OP’s wallet, he might used a mixer service to mix the coins and hence his address cannot be traced.
Wishing that this should not happen with anyone in the near future.

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Anti-virus software will not protect you from scams because they are not sophisticated enough to detect them in the first place. They can only check if you are running known malicious programs and kill bsaically every program (including system processes) that is compromised by malware.

Besides, you most likely weren't infected from your PCs anyway. You must have downloaded a bugged iOS version of Metamask - Apple doesn't provide any means of knowing that you are downloading the legit app. (even google play just puts a stupid Play Protection symbol next to apps on its store but that doesn't tell you anything about whether its a real or fake copy of an app.)

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That is a very high amount of BTC you had there lying on the hot wallet and I hate to say but you were just fighting with the odds of them being stolen one day or the other.
People need to understand that much of Bitcoin needs a hardware wallet which costs below $100 and then store it in an environment which is not exposed to internet, that's the part.
I am sorry for your loss once again but nothing else can be done as of now.

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