Topic: My wallet was just hacked - page 4. (Read 2338 times)
Are you sure that your BTCs didn't get transferred to a change wallet? Perhaps you want to post the public keys so we can track the transactions on blockchain?
I installed Bitcoin-Qt on my iMac, put some bitcoins in it, and locked the wallet.
When I wanted to make a new address to send some bitcoins to an exchange, it asked me to unlock my wallet. I entered the key, and the wallet application locked up. I had to kill the task. When I started it up, it said my wallet was corrupted. I restored my wallet from a backup, and discovered that all of my bitcoins (over 3 coins
) had been transferred. They had been transferred to an address I've never used before. In fact, I've never transferred any bitcoins out of my wallet.
Well, the fact that I lost over $USD300 in coins is bad, but I'll chalk that up to experience. What I'd like to know is how it was done. I can only guess that my computer has been infected with malware that was waiting for me to unlock my wallet so it could do a transfer. Is this a known hack?
Thanks,
Random8, bitcoin n00b
When I wanted to make a new address to send some bitcoins to an exchange, it asked me to unlock my wallet. I entered the key, and the wallet application locked up. I had to kill the task. When I started it up, it said my wallet was corrupted. I restored my wallet from a backup, and discovered that all of my bitcoins (over 3 coins
) had been transferred. They had been transferred to an address I've never used before. In fact, I've never transferred any bitcoins out of my wallet.Well, the fact that I lost over $USD300 in coins is bad, but I'll chalk that up to experience. What I'd like to know is how it was done. I can only guess that my computer has been infected with malware that was waiting for me to unlock my wallet so it could do a transfer. Is this a known hack?
Thanks,
Random8, bitcoin n00b
I doubt that a lock up would cause that. Did you try to do a -rescan on the backed up wallet, and are you sure it isn't a change address? Also did you try the savage wallet command?
If a program that wasn't running on my Mac could connect to Bitcoin-Qt, it might be able to steal the coins, but I don't know how someone from the Internet could do it. I checked my router, and its firewall is running, which should prevent anyone from connecting to the wallet app from the Internet.
Random8
Random8
Glad it wasnt me 
That's quite disturbing!
damn
I installed Bitcoin-Qt on my iMac, put some bitcoins in it, and locked the wallet.
When I wanted to make a new address to send some bitcoins to an exchange, it asked me to unlock my wallet. I entered the key, and the wallet application locked up. I had to kill the task. When I started it up, it said my wallet was corrupted. I restored my wallet from a backup, and discovered that all of my bitcoins (over 3 coins ) had been transferred. They had been transferred to an address I've never used before. In fact, I've never transferred any bitcoins out of my wallet.
Well, the fact that I lost over $USD300 in coins is bad, but I'll chalk that up to experience. What I'd like to know is how it was done. I can only guess that my computer has been infected with malware that was waiting for me to unlock my wallet so it could do a transfer. Is this a known hack?
Thanks,
Random8, bitcoin n00b
When I wanted to make a new address to send some bitcoins to an exchange, it asked me to unlock my wallet. I entered the key, and the wallet application locked up. I had to kill the task. When I started it up, it said my wallet was corrupted. I restored my wallet from a backup, and discovered that all of my bitcoins (over 3 coins
) had been transferred. They had been transferred to an address I've never used before. In fact, I've never transferred any bitcoins out of my wallet.Well, the fact that I lost over $USD300 in coins is bad, but I'll chalk that up to experience. What I'd like to know is how it was done. I can only guess that my computer has been infected with malware that was waiting for me to unlock my wallet so it could do a transfer. Is this a known hack?
Thanks,
Random8, bitcoin n00b
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