MY BLOCKCHAIN WALLET WAS STOLEN 0.39070099 BTC !!! - page 2.

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Quote from: 20kevin20 on May 01, 2020, 03:55:26 PM

Quote from: Lucius on May 01, 2020, 07:43:35 AM

some users are simply not ready to be their own bank

True. No comment here Cheesy

Some are actually so naive that they are fooled in a completely bizarre way. Let's say someone calls and introduced himself as an employee of your bank, asking that you provide your bank card+PIN because they need to check something. Some people actually fall for that, so we are still a long way from saying that people know how to protect their digital information, specifically what is related to crypto.

Quote from: tamara86 on May 02, 2020, 02:59:08 AM

What wallet did you use?

He used a special wallet where you just say the magic word and all the BTC move from one address to another - someone unfortunately learned that magic word Shocked

Seriously, why don't you read the OP if you are interested in this information Huh

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really bad that you lost much amount of money in btc but seems you must did some mistakes to use online wallet

I used block chain wallet from 6 years and still not got any issue

as mostly keep small parts of coins in many different wallet ids and never keep all coins in one wallet

moreover never download any suspicious software or male-ware etc in that pc using for block chain wallet

may be you received some fake email from block chain and you click on link inside email which take you to fake block chain website and as soon you put your password in fake website, scammer got info and just able to transferred all your coins

online wallet can be use in safe way but always be careful and never download any files or malware or never use NON secure browser and always keep coins in parts in many different wallets

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What wallet did you use?

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Quote from: mocacinno on April 30, 2020, 04:50:35 AM

Yup, you were cleaned out good... If you did not make that transaction, your funds are gone.

Phishing, malware (on your pc or a script within your browser), a vulnerability (os, browser) or unsafe storage of your credentials are usually the problem.

The thief's transaction is confirmed, so whatever somebody tells you, this means the thefth is irreversible. You can go to the police, but usually they won't even know where to start.
The only thing you can do is look at this thefth as an expensive lesson: buy a decent hardware wallet and move on... Sorry to be the barer of bad news

Indeed, I am totally agree with you. I am also victim of stolen myetherwallet approximately 55 day ago. I couldn't do any thing just watched that scammer's transactions on myehterwallet. unfortunately I had hardware wallet but didn't transfer my coins to it and I thought I am save but I was wrong.

Anyway if you have more than $1000 in your blockchain or any other online wallet I suggest should buy hardware wallet and transfer them immediately.

Save all you crypto...

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Quote from: osama888 on April 30, 2020, 04:28:53 AM

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can any one help me what i do !! this coins is all i have .

I am sorry about this incident. My blockchain wallet has been hacked, even though I have provided double security, 2FA, email verification, etc. The dam* hacker managed to get a crack and easily move my BTC. Not as much as you have, only 0.003 BTC, but that means a lot because I will use it to pay for rent.

Be patient, this valuable lesson for you. The next time you save a lot of assets, choose a safer wallet, such as a hardware wallet, there are many products to choose from, for example, Ledger Nano. The cost you spend is comparable to the security guarantee you get. Follow the advice of experienced members above, hopefully, you will get a better chance soon

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Ouch, sorry to hear that this has happened to you. Looks like the coins haven't been moved yet. All you can do is just keep on tracking where the funds go until it goes through a mixer (and high chances it will) where you no longer will be able to know where your coins are.
Sadly, this is why most of the people suggests not to use online wallets. But then again, if it was your computer that was infected, so I guess its your fault since you failed to keep your computer clean! Hope you learned a valuable lesson.

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There is nothing you can do, even though it feels heavy just let it go. Because bitcoin transactions cannot be canceled or be reversed,
make this learning be more careful about what bitcoin you have. You should buy a hardware wallet, it will make your bitcoin safer.
And most important now clean the OS and browser that you use.

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A few times ago I read this article and I think it can be made an excuse to your case https://www.cybereason.com/blog/eventbot-a-new-mobile-banking-trojan-is-born

Be carefull when you download an application from any unknown site, especially if you save it to your phone. This things should be noticed by all crypto user because we store our money on the internet which something can be happened if we let our guard down. Regardless to your fund, you may need to give that up.

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Quote from: gabbie2010 on May 01, 2020, 02:36:13 PM

The OP might have mistakenly reveal some vital information regarding his wallet unknowingly at the mercy of hackers,
Hackers had been more sophisticated in recent times online wallet are always prone to hackers, the OP ought to have store such a huge amount of Bitcoin in a hardware.

That might be the case. But I have to say that blockchain wallet isn't among safest wallets, they had many breaches so far and it's not very wise to keep coins there.
However, I agree that hacker's attacks are getting more and more sophisticated and security it's hard to keep.

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Quote from: Lucius on May 01, 2020, 07:43:35 AM

Do you think the OP would have avoided what had happened to him if he is been using Linux by any chance? He was using 2FA via SMS, it is possible that the hacker obtained his verification information using the SIM swap technique. Regardless of OS and wallet type, some users are simply not ready to be their own bank. Regarding hardware wallets, I wrote my opinion in a previous post.

As long as you use everything the wrong way, it obviously doesn't matter which OS or wallet you're using. But Linux is not as easy to learn & use as Windows is and ever since I moved from Windows to Linux, I have learned lots of important stuff about the way your behavior could put your PC at risk. Simply the fact that you have to learn terminal commands teaches you a lot.

It was more of an eye opener for me and it's just a friendly advice for him to move on from the privacy-lacking Windows - could be an eye opener for him too! But I guess we're all different

Quote from: Lucius on May 01, 2020, 07:43:35 AM

some users are simply not ready to be their own bank

True. No comment here Cheesy

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The OP might have mistakenly reveal some vital information regarding his wallet unknowingly at the mercy of hackers,
Hackers had been more sophisticated in recent times online wallet are always prone to hackers, the OP ought to have store such a huge amount of Bitcoin in a hardware.

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Sorry to hear this mate, I remember three wallets of mine got hacked at some point in time. One thing I have realized is that we need to be careful on some sites that we visit especially Torrents. Once I started accessing that site myI think I downloaded a malware alongside a download file. My pc contained my private keys.

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With that amount you could easily have bought a hardware wallet to secure however its to late for that. Consider that a big lesson in your life and move on, next time you already knew what to do. Listen to good advices since your not alone in that situation.

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Quote from: 20kevin20 on May 01, 2020, 05:55:52 AM

I recommend you to move from Windows to Linux and buy a Hardware Wallet...

Do you think the OP would have avoided what had happened to him if he is been using Linux by any chance? He was using 2FA via SMS, it is possible that the hacker obtained his verification information using the SIM swap technique. Regardless of OS and wallet type, some users are simply not ready to be their own bank. Regarding hardware wallets, I wrote my opinion in a previous post.

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Never use these online wallets, always use a wallet which u download and where u hold the privat key / seed. Make sure to create your wallet offline so risk to get hacked is way smaller.

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Quote from: osama888 on April 30, 2020, 07:27:08 AM

The possibility of returning the money by the police is very weak. What happened was painful to me. of course i setup anew clean OS .

I recommend you to move from Windows to Linux and buy a Hardware Wallet (preferably Trezor/Ledger as they've been tested and used for a long time already and had their security proven). Windows is less safe and has crappy privacy. If you want to feel safer, learn to use Linux and move to it.

It's a hard lesson you had to learn but move on. My recoveries always overcame the losses.

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Quote from: NotATether on April 30, 2020, 09:56:52 AM

Use Electrum wallet and create a watching-only wallet on your desktop...
Then get a computer that doesn't have any internet connection and create a cold storage wallet with Electrum. Since it has no internet access it can keep the private keys (your bitcoins) there. https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

You have actually reversed the order in which a cold wallet should be made. First you need to create a standard wallet on airgapped device, and then use master public key to create watch-only wallet on online device.

Quote from: mk4 on April 30, 2020, 09:58:58 AM

Quote from: osama888 on April 30, 2020, 09:46:15 AM

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

Even if one uses a hardware wallet, it does not mean that they will be safe from hacking, and by that I mean those users who save their backup in a completely inappropriate way (cloud, email, on PC desktop ...), and those who think that seed words are something that is normal to type around on any site that is asking for that.

Tell someone "buy a hardware wallet and be safe", actually is only a partial advice, you also need to give him advice on how to use it safely.

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Sorry to hear that. The cyber police in any country is not good enough yet to get your funds back but you never know...

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What's the hell going it’s very sad. From my friend something another way 2800$ stolen in blockchain wallet. Someone try to make a deal with BTC against USDT, this guy sent first and received without any problem even though this transaction checked by blockchain explorer than my friend also sent him. But after 5 mins his wallet is empty. It’s lost so will never possible to recover.

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Quote from: mk4 on April 30, 2020, 06:08:02 PM

Quote from: rdbase on April 30, 2020, 04:47:25 PM

Or he could just get one for free if he doesnt want to spend even that much to safe keep his cryptocurrency. Undecided

I know not as good as the ones you listed but still it is a starting point at the very least.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/free-raffle-keep-key-brand-new-sealed-5244832
Free raffle for a keepkey still some spots left to enter.

It's not like OP is guaranteed to win the raffle, right? Assuming OP wants to buy bitcoin again soon, it'd probably be best to just spend the measly $70 rather than OP hoping that he actually wins the 1/100 chance.

There should not be any debate at all about it, now OP has learned from the hard way, if he had spared just few dollars to buy a hardware wallet he would have been spared from this pain and disappointment, only a miracle can help him recover his funds back which I doubt will happen,
0.3btc stolen compare to $70 to buy a hardware wallet which would have been better!
Now he is aware of taken security seriously, @op sorry you lose your funds but i hope you will take advice and go buy a hardware wallet.

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