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jemarie20

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Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

Maybe you put your private key in the place that are able to see by the public, Maybe you put your private key instead of eth address that is why you wallet is not safe anymore.

savioroshan

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Nobody can hack your private keys. The hackers wont get your private key unless you give them. I suggest you to get a pendrive and store your passwords and private keys in that. Also dont give your private keys to anyone and allow your trusted buddies to use your laptop or pc. Also dont try to open your wallets from internet cafes. Its not safe.

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Private key is safe as long as you store it in a safe. A good safe box, not a cheap one.

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Quote from: hanley88 on April 26, 2018, 08:13:26 AM

Private key are not safe these days. I've had this experience.

Private keys perfect safe one. You can able to check richest bitcoin address also with the blockchain explorer but none of hacker cannot do shit to that wallet because encryption with the private key much safer than your bank locker.

If you say private key is not safe means you are good at using the bitcoin wallet as well. Go to beginners and help for learning all the basics about bitcoin and wallet usage.

nelmari

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The private keys are safe but the website you logged in to maybe was a phishing site that's why the hacker got your information and took all your coins and tokens from you MEW account. That there is not safe. You have to bookmark the correct website and make sure before you log in that it is the correct one.

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You may have overlooked the wrong website, 1 letter wrong then all is absolutely wrong. So I keep in bookmark the right MEW website.

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Private key are not safe these days. I've had this experience.

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Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

you may have web fishing, so what you input has been seen on their web. just as with every activity you perform, will be visible to the web. my friends are exposed to link fishing. so to prevent that I make metamask, and my friend uses it after changing the address.

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You get phished or probably get hacked. Or you key in the private key somewhere in public chat.

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Quote from: shoreno on April 23, 2018, 05:02:21 PM

Quote from: ACVinegar on April 23, 2018, 03:08:42 PM

Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

To be simple it was happen because you failed to kept your private key, because private key is unique no one can know that aside from you and the system of ether wallet. If you notice the private key were compose of alphanumeric together with small and large letter, so it is impossible to take it in one blink of eye. To many users, its better if you cannot save your private key into your PC or in the phone, because many intruders taking that chance to get your amount in your wallet.

I do save my private keys on my pc and also in my cellphone and so far i did not experience any problem. I do also use myetherwallet for a verry long time up until now and i also didnt experience to get hacked. Maybe the op has accidentally paste his private key on an an aidrop or on a bounty form , because anyone can always take a look in the spreedshets. Phishing sites is also another factor that i can think of. You know , mew is verry popular when it comes to phisihing sites. this is because mew uses a private key as primary tool to login your account.

Yes, me too I save my prikey in my pc and my phone until now it's very safe. I don't often see myetherwallet, just once a week to make sure the tokens I have still there or not and see the price conditions. In OP status is indeed a lot of possibilities, there is the possibility of too often open myetherewallet will be seen by hackers or log in at MEW fake site.With the rise of cryptocurrency at the moment, most likely the focus of the hackers is the users of cryptos. What makes our wallet safe and not, depends on our own.

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Quote from: ACVinegar on April 23, 2018, 03:08:42 PM

Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

To be simple it was happen because you failed to kept your private key, because private key is unique no one can know that aside from you and the system of ether wallet. If you notice the private key were compose of alphanumeric together with small and large letter, so it is impossible to take it in one blink of eye. To many users, its better if you cannot save your private key into your PC or in the phone, because many intruders taking that chance to get your amount in your wallet.

I do save my private keys on my pc and also in my cellphone and so far i did not experience any problem. I do also use myetherwallet for a verry long time up until now and i also didnt experience to get hacked. Maybe the op has accidentally paste his private key on an an aidrop or on a bounty form , because anyone can always take a look in the spreedshets. Phishing sites is also another factor that i can think of. You know , mew is verry popular when it comes to phisihing sites. this is because mew uses a private key as primary tool to login your account.

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Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

To be simple it was happen because you failed to kept your private key, because private key is unique no one can know that aside from you and the system of ether wallet. If you notice the private key were compose of alphanumeric together with small and large letter, so it is impossible to take it in one blink of eye. To many users, its better if you cannot save your private key into your PC or in the phone, because many intruders taking that chance to get your amount in your wallet.

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Maybe you send your private key instead of your account, sometime people mistakenly do that, that's why before giving any account number check it carefully since private key and account are same both combinations of number and letters

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Private key remains safe until it is made public then it is no longer private key. Some people save these private keys in a notepad they drop anywhere, some save it in their unsafe mailbox, some even save it in a text document on a public computer's desktop. Some download the JSON key and leave it in the downloads folder of shared devices. There are scam emails that tells you that an attempt was made to access your account and was blocked. To unlock your account, you need to add a 2FA and in the process, they ask you to decrypt your wallet with your private key. I have seen more than enough mistakes by people, especially the newbies in crypto system, in handling of private keys. You have learn his to safely secure your private keys for it to be safe

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Quote from: erre on March 03, 2018, 07:39:49 AM

OP didn't come back to give some clarifications, but despite the "strong" title this is just a clear example of a successful attack on his pc, not private keys

Exactly, OP should understand as long as of you don't share your private key with other you will be in safe. Most of the companies will never ask you for the private key, even the ICO website including it.

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Quote from: omonuyak on March 02, 2018, 02:31:48 AM

Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

For your private keys to be safe is not the work of myetherwallet or any other wallets provider, it is your duty to keep your wallet private keys safe. I saw a guy that fill a bounty Google Doc form with his private key and I was surprised why instead of putting public keys he put his private keys and if I am a bad person I will move his tokens and ethereum in his wallet.

Such mistakes are common and i have experienced on seeing those guys who mistakenly put up their private keys instead of their wallet address which would result into hacking and not all people are kind enough not to access those wallet yet keys are already been exposed.They think most of the time on accessing it and stole those tokens inside of it without minding about their conscience as long they can get easy money if they are lucky they would hit up a very big balance but basing on my experience most of them are just new wallet being created by newbies which do mistakenly put up their keys on ss.

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Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

If you are fond of signing up to various sites, especially those who offer free tokens, free cash, or any sort of good thing for free, those might be the reason, there is a possibility that you have registered into a phishing site.This is why it is important to always check that URL bar above if you are in a safe site and you are accessing a genuine website. Another possibility is you have exposed your private key somewhere (on google forms for registration in bounty campaigns and airdrops, etc.)

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Quote from: omonuyak on March 02, 2018, 02:31:48 AM

Quote from: Dhanems on February 26, 2018, 01:09:20 PM

I'm hacked victim,I used my etherwallet to received my assets..but why hacker know my pivate key? Hacker is sent ethereum into my wallet and used as a gas to get all my coins..how it all happened guys.?

For your private keys to be safe is not the work of myetherwallet or any other wallets provider, it is your duty to keep your wallet private keys safe. I saw a guy that fill a bounty Google Doc form with his private key and I was surprised why instead of putting public keys he put his private keys and if I am a bad person I will move his tokens and ethereum in his wallet.

One needs to utmost take care of their private keys and save or store it in the offline mode. Either right it down and keep it where only you can access it and not shared with anyone obviously. Even while sending or mentioning address you need to be sure that you are not sending private keys and even if somebody asking you due to any reason it is an alert of scam.

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Quote from: erre on March 03, 2018, 07:39:49 AM

OP didn't come back to give some clarifications, but despite of the "strong" title this is just a clear example of a successful attack on his pc, not priv keys

I agree I guess it is his fault. Private keys are safe unless you hand them over to other people.

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I don't comprehend what is your concern? How might anybody take your private key by sending ethereum to the address? Stunned. I figure you may went into the clone MEW site where the programmers used to duplicate your private key and after that your assets were stolen.But any probide your wthereum address then we can comprehend what was the issue here.

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