Topic: My bitcoins are stolen (Read 1698 times)

I think you accidentally post it online but I can say that is a lesson to you now that you should keep it in a private offline place, I mean in a hard disk, note book and etc. that can keep your private key if your using myetherwallet .

I'm really sorry for what happened to you.

It's possible that the victim did not have a virus or malware on his computer and there was no attacker stealing his private key.

It could be that someone just 'discovered' the private key as part of this project:   https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/large-bitcoin-collider-collision-finders-pool-1573035
and https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about


What this project means is that the wallet software did not generate the private key in a truly random way.
This could be the result of incompetence/ignorance or maliciousness.

Unfortunately i don't think there is a way to link a privatekey with the wallet software that generated it.
So we'll never know who the bad actor is.

I just checked my Electrum balance because it's been awhile since I checked it ---> it's still there.

I guess there was an exploit introduced into the Electrum clients several months back and if the client was downloaded within that specific window of time then it's possible that that is the problem in this case as well.

Here's a different but interesting Electrum hack that just happened last month: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7435zs/hacked_using_electrum_wallet_293_windows/

Never enter your private keys in a suspicious site or don't let anyone see your private password coz it may harm your feelings. just track down the transactions and help to report it. goodluck!

You are really hacked by anonymous person because our technology is very upgraded into a new one from the others.  It can be possible that many things here in internet can be hacked by any one so be vigilant and be careful on what are you doing.

Sorry to hear of your loss. Sadly everyday we hear more and more stories of people loss of bitcoin as the value rises so does the threat of theft. 

If i have a huge money like that I would send it to separate btc address for security reasons.

My guess is that you are a victim of phishing. Somewhere, sometime, you must have indicated your wallet address and then when they checked it, showing it has some decent balance in Bitcoins, they decided to siphon it off to their own wallet. You cannot easily accuse the government of stealing such relatively little amount. You are 100% have leaks somewhere in your security.

It's because you reinstalled a fresh Os that is the reason why,
This happen to me before with my dogecoin pc wallet and I lose every
dogecoins. It is best to store your coins on a trusted online wallet.

Is this actually possible? I am now afraid leaving my cryptos in my online wallet. I think i have to start thinking hardware wallet.

So out of all the whole population of your country, you are the lucky person that got hacked by your government. Honestly, how? Just how. Because if you created the wallet in a fresh computer and assuming that you generated the keys without connecting to the Internet, I have zero idea how would they get your keys even if we assume that they have some shady activity going on in partnership with your country's ISP. The keys were made offline so there's no way it was sent to the Internet.

Either someone hacked into your computer like your brother or sister, or you got phished, or you just forgotten that you sent the money to some website. A wallet/address with that much transaction is not just a person, it's a website. It's probably a bitcoin mixer if we assume that you actually got hacked. It can also be just a trading site. Since the deposit address of your account in trading site and the withdrawal address will be different. Nevertheless, the guy clearly knew what he was doing and made sure that there will be no trail in blockchain to trace him. Regardless, you can't do anything about it. Your coins are never going back. There's no point thinking about it anymore, move on and do better this time.

Its to much hard find out who stole your coins. Since the bitcoin is Untraceable and not be traced so there's no way to reach for the victim . But i can give you some tips to prevent being hacked. Actually you were using online wallet which can be hacked easily .I suggest you to spend some money to buy hardware wallet. Few dollars can secure your wallet and your coins forever.

I am very sorry about what happened to your bitcoins. Why did you not create more than one wallet? In case your wallet is hacked, you still have another one. Plus, you should have been more careful when you knew that there were hackers out there.

So to be more cautious, do not click on any suspicious link. Do not download anything suspicious. Do not give your information to anyone else, even your trusted friends. Download a good anti-virus, and create more wallets. Your bitcoins are gone. But that is not the end of the world. Cheer up!

I grow tired of the high and mighty people on here saying how its their fault, weather or not they laxed on security, did they sign the transaction? No. Doesn't get them their coins back, but they DIDN'T do it. Even those who had secured their private keys were hit by stolen coins when the RNGs were faulty and leaked the private keys from nothing more than signed transactions from the blockchain, as value k was reused. Even if they had been used for transactions on a hardware wallet, a faulty slip up in the RNG or an accidental re-use of k would render even those vulnerable.

Don't get cocky and have some compassion for crying out loud, hes just lost over £100k. Thats more than many will ever see in life savings. This is one thing that will hamper bitcoin adoption, people like this. Two of my friends read posts like this and decided to stick with fiat. A bit like saying someones fault they got robbed for not realising a yale lock wouldn't keep them out. And your private keys may be secure now, but you never know, so don't get cocky, and certainly do not store your funds in a single wallet. If someone REALLY wanted your keys, they would get them, see $5 wrench attack. Legacy wallets are also not quantum computer safe, either.

No system is 100% secure, even older trezor wallets if you had possession of them could be hacked into via an exploit that has been used successfully, and how many non updated trezors are currently in vaults? No system is 100.00% secure, so again, don't get cocky.

As for this guy, did you enter you seed anywhere where you could claim 'free bitcoin gold' etc, or did you download the real electrum, there are some fake electrums out there that swipe coins, did you download it from electrum.org? If you downloaded it from anywhere else, chances are it is a fake.

Sorry to hear of your loss £100k+...

Maybe you have clicked some spam stuffs which you did not know.sorry for your lose bro

I'm so sorry for you.. That's a lot of money.. By the way are you sure you never clicked on 'any weird sites or download anything'? even porn ads might contain malwares in it. Also have u tried contacting the support?? I know this might not help at all but at least you'll figure out something maybe??  I don't think your bitcoin was stolen by your wallet provider..

today hacker, why your bitcoin stilen if somebody no your private is easy to transfer your token

no mate i though there no way goverment do that, even if they can they wont do it. cause its goverment. But feel sory to your lose hope you got it back in some otherways

What exactly do you mean by guessing "password and peers"?
Your government has no ability to steal your coins. Doesn't matter which government you are talking about.
Yes, secret authorities are in charge of 0-day exploits.. but none of them cares about your coins.
You probably got a malware somehow to your pc. It may be due to a cracked windows version.. those mostly are infected already.
Or you may plugged in an usb stick which was plugged in on another machine already? This is also an possible way of infecting your pc.