Topic: My funds have been stolen! - page 4. (Read 1869 times)

I'am so sad to hear that.
may we know what type of bitcoin wallet you are using, what is a hardware wallet ?
and what device do you use to make transactions ?

Meehn, sorry for you  there is nothing like recovering your money when you send it to the wrong address, as long as you have sent it you should just forget about it because it’s not coming back again.

I am still not understanding how you made this kind of mistake of sending to the wrong address, maybe you have installed a software that’s owned by hackers and scammers, because I have once heard of some apps that automatically rewrites the addresses you copy so that when you paste it and send, it goes to the wallet that’s owned by those scammers. Unless you’re the one that just made the mistake.

In a world where security is the most important for people to put trust, technology is the thing that makes it 10x more possible, invention of digital currencies with a strong backbone such as bitcoin is one of the best invention that is now feared by banks and central authorities. Bitcoin is showing a strong security features that makes it possible to be considered the most safest storage of our currency in terms of having it digitally. The only problem arises is when the decentralization that is offered by bitcoin right from the start is disregarding for us using centralized exchanges. But keep in mind, that security in systems is still on our hands, as long as we keep ourselves personally responsible and knowledgeable about keeping the best wallet possible.

I'm sorry but it's too late to recover it. That's one of the reason why you store your funds in a hard wallet especially when the funds you are storing are for emergencies like this, like funds that you can't just afford to lose even if Bitcoin dump for a little while.

Since that already happened, you should clean your computer for infections. Probably format it and before assessing important files, download an anti-virus for extra layers of protection.

Impossible and not way to return back our balance after sending by the other, little mistake sending with wrong address we can't get return back our bitcoin assets and the same thing if some one hacked and stole your assets, I think did you install some application on your computer look terrible and make your data is record on this site, I think we are the cryptocurreny world never install with some thing else of application on smart phone and computer.

This is quite a misfortunate that you experienced this. It is always advisable to keep your wallet safe at all time. There are a lot of people on the internet just waiting for people with weak security settings on their crypto wallets and rob them off their crypto coins. Its very sad that you did experience this. This might help you keep your wallet safe at all time.  And also avoid making transactions using a public internet connection. You just put yourself at the risk of getting hacked.

I am sorry about this situation but there is no way for you to get it back. It has been transferred to another wallet and you have lost it permanently. Every day I see a lot of hacks happening to everyone here, most of them have failed to secure the private key and were stolen by the bad guys. I hope you can secure it better in the future and let this situation not happen again

it becomes very possible if he has used an app that contains a backdoor etc.
maybe this is my suggestion to use premium antivirus which has banking, payment and cryptocurrency protect features as I use it on my device
and to keep it even safer I recommend closing your webcam for secure your password

I'm sorry to hear that. Storing funds in btc can be even more risky then storing them in your bedside table.

It's very sad because OP needs it for the operation of his mom and this kind of incident did happened to him, very frustrating.

People never learn about keeping their funds with an exchange, local or international. I understand that they like it keeping there so that they can easily sell it if it's needed but they don't realize that once the exchange gets hacked, they can't retrieve it anymore unless the exchange is generous to refund the lost funds of affected users.

Honestly, i am very sorry to hear that someone stole your private keys and your bitcoins that was supposed to be for your mother's health. Sad to say that it is impossible for you to recover all of your funds because the wallet that you have been using will not take the responsibility to the incident that happened, and it is very difficult to trace the hacker.

That's sad! I feel bad while reading your post op. Since you can't stop nor do anything about the transactions, you need to look back what could have been the reason why this is happening. I mean, what did you do on your pc/cp and the sites you have tried to access for the past days before the said transactions happened. And think who can access your keys and such. Just try to look back and maybe you can get the answer.

Be careful everyone. This is one the risk that we have to deal here.

I just wanna share about how do I keep my account safe. I have a total of 19 accounts, and those accounts are my facebook, gmail, yahoo, twitter, IG, yobit and my crypto account but I do never experience any trouble like hack accounts and forgetten passwords because I have this attitude that I am frequently changing all my account's password every month and also I am listing all of my in a paper and also I am producing a copy by taking a photo and store it into my phone's privacy box.

Somehow your private keys is no more private, got stolen by hacker or even people that are closer to you, honestly i have electrum wallets, I'm better off with coinomi or trust wallet, somehow you leak out your private keys and your fund got stolen, sorry pal nothing can be done about this

So you didn't actually create your private key with Electrum? I'm just thinking out loud here, but it's kind of pointless to generate your private key offline only to later import it into a hot wallet.

Anyway, are you suggesting that Electrum itself is compromised? If so, you might want to share more details so other people can verify where things could have possibly gone wrong. I personally don't believe Electrum has a problem, but that's only because there's no verifiable evidence presented thus far.


I can only remember two "breaches", the first of which is inconsequential if the user set a wallet password (with no verified Bitcoin loss), and the other only really affecting alerts which were used for phishing. I'm not going to say those aren't bad, but people who know what they're doing were never really at risk.


I'd still recommend Electrum over those alternatives to be honest. I also hate to break it to you, but customer service won't help you with anything unless (and maybe not even) they're the one who messed up. So if you got phished or caught a virus which led to your funds being stolen (which could very easily be OP's problem), you're going to end up just as helpless. That means these options are even worse because you have to worry about two parties messing up (you and them) as opposed to worrying only about yourself.

Blockchain or a local exchange?  Those are bad ideas unless you are incompetent about securing your own computer.  Then you don't own bitcoin, you have an IOU.

Electrum is secure if your computer is secure.  People saying that "they" have lots of security issues are misinformed.

      The blockchain system is a secure system. It is so secure that if you lose your private key, you will lose your investments. I am sorry to hear about losing your money, further choosing that this money was needed for a noble purpose. I think this happened to you because of your inattention. Maybe you had a private key on a stick and another person had access to that stick. Otherwise it is not explained. Something happened and it sure happened from your inattention. I am sorry and I hope that in the future you will be more careful with your funds.

I feel sorry for you dude. Though if you can read back from other threads having the same topic, there basically no way for the transaction to be cancelled or for the funds to be retrieved. I'm not sure as to how that happened but there might be some error on your end with processing the transaction. I just hope you still have some left to use for your mother's medication.

There is no way to stop or reverse bitcoin transactions, your money has been moved and you have lost it permanently. And I'm sure you revealed your private key outside and were stolen by others, only that way your wallet could be compromised. I'm sorry about this situation of yours, which is a lot of money for me and maybe it's also big for you. Hopefully in the future you will be more careful in everything

Without knowing the exact reason why he lost his funds or what kind of attacks that he faced, running av scan is not a good idea.

He probably needs to wipe out his entire drive and start reinstalling his OS or any other device that's previously connected, to prevent another backdoor installation to his computer. Even if he got an HW wallet, that's meaningless when the thief can log his private key.


What kind of breaches you're talking about here? Blockchain or any web-based-hot-wallet is definitely not better than Electrum. Storing on an exchange is definitely a bad idea as you don't own the private key. Looks like you're fine with trusting a lot of BTC on somebody you don't know. Good luck with avoiding cases like Cryptopia.