Topic: Share Your Bitcoin Hack Stories: Help Us Educate and Protect! (Read 384 times)

Posi, you know, sometimes I used to think I started on the wrong path to cryptocurrency after some bad experiences, but yeah, I just have to realize that there is no smoke without a fire, despite those past experiences. Although some airdrops paid off well, like, luckily, $100, $50, $80, or more, I don't think there are any airdrops that can pay up to those amounts now, although I have given up on it for a long time now, so I am not certain, but like you said, it has switched to Testnest, which I don't know how Testnest works, but I remember doing something like Launchpad where I connected my wallet to claim some free airdrop coins too, which was even worthless and my wallet was hacked.


From your account registration date, I believe you are a well-experienced crypto user, and you have seen so many altcoins bloom and dump, and some people also became millionaires because of it, but sincerely, that's all luck, and I have also bought so many altcoins but was not lucky. I really don't like to hold altcoins like Bitcoin because I know it can pump and dump, and after it has dumped, it might likely pump again. I bought a lot of meme coins, but they are still in my wallet, looking worthless. So, I think Bitcoin will not just be a thing of luck while investing in it; I believe it's an investment that will surely bring profit in the future, not like altcoins that you are not just sure of. I don't totally hate altcoins, brother, but even while I have been investing in altcoins, I already miss a lot of opportunities, like Shiba Inu, Pepe,Gom, etc. What more could I miss before I decide to start buying altcoins again?

Even a little is rough. Do all losses hurt, even minor ones? Actually, it makes you wiser. Its a crypto rite of passage, strangely. Though, your method of "testing" wallets with smaller amounts is excellent. Similar to dipping your toes in the water before jumping in to make sure its not scorching hot. This works well in the crazy world of dapps and airdrops. Bitcoin is different from dapps, so you're right. It may give you peace of mind, but keep vigilant. Who knows whats next in crypto? There may be new Bitcoin vulnerabilities in the future

I was lucky enough to never getting hacked when i was new to bitcoin, and reading this forum helped me a lot to stay safe from being hacked or scammed, here many users shared their experiences about getting hacked or getting scammed and i learned from their mistakes.
here's what i have learned so far:
1. Avoid clicking on links which are from non trusted sources.
2. do not store your crypto on exchanges for long time.
3. do not connect metamask with websites you don't trust.
4. do not store you passwords or seed phrases online and backup them on regular basis.
5. buy a cold wallet if you can afford.
6. do not share any private information online with anyone.

I once fell victim to hacking, not with Bitcoin, but rather with an altcoin that had its own blockchain network. I realized this was a significant mistake on my part and provided me with a valuable lesson. The mistake I made was storing a substantial balance in a wallet on a Windows VPS.

It was a coin I mined using a VPS, and I stored it in a wallet for an extended period. What I did was change VPS every month and import my wallet from one VPS to another. It's worth noting that the VPS I created only lasted for a month, so it seems I exposed my private key too frequently. I was shocked to see my wallet balance suddenly depleted, and although it didn't make me anxious for long, I immediately took action and evaluated all the mistakes I had made.

I began implementing security measures for my cryptocurrency wallets, both Bitcoin and altcoins.
- Keeping a small balance of BTC on exchange wallets
- Backing up private keys on a secure physical device
- Activating biometric and two-factor authentication systems for smartphone wallets
- Reducing wallet activity when unnecessary
- Avoiding risky links with antivirus software
- And so on

Airdrops are profitable if you don't have to do anything like holding a coin to get a token airdrop or to buy a coin then use it for on chain transaction fee because you need to make on chain transactions as one of conditions to be eligible for airdrops.

If you have to spend something, it contains risk, even you are talking about airdrops.

People have years in cryptocurrency market actually experienced risk of altcoins. They know risk and they say advice to newbies who usually ignore their advice because in eyes of newbies, altcoins are more potential, more profitable. They don't see risk, only see opportunities in altcoins.

Airdrops are still profitable but have switched to a newer form that people often call testnet or retroactive...but spam airdrops are just trash. Airdrop is just a form of earning free altcoins and I think it has nothing to do with investing in altcoins because not all altcoins launch airdrops for users.

Focusing only on bitcoin is not a bad idea because you will avoid the risks that the altcoin market brings. But you will also miss out on the opportunity to gain big profits from investing in altcoins.

That has often been the case and it's sad for those who become victims to these crooks. I'm not a fan of chasing freebies online because I believe they don't actually exist without a hook to fish gullible minds. As for links, I try as much as I can to view new and suspecting links on who.is site. At least, this guarantees me an overview of what site I'm trying to assess.

You did well by clearing this part and setting the record straight. Newbies in this industry often mistake and interchange them.

My Bitcoin has never been hacked, maybe it's because I have a separate wallet where I store only Bitcoin and no shitcoins no matter how valuable..

But then, my shitcoins wallet have been hacked on several occasions, and those hacks are always through either I mistakenly type enter my private keys in a fake site and they phish it and use it to gain access into my wallet, or I connect to a fake dapp site trying to claim an airdrop and then the scammers empty my wallet , though I am particularly happy though for the several occasions this has happened, the highest they have ever stolen from me is $3.4 dollars worth of bnb coin, the rest are always very tiny amount of money, and still is because I don't use wallets where I keep big money for such experiments, if I am unsure, I will always test a service or an airdrop with a wallet containing a very small amount of funds to confirm they are legit, before I connect my wallet containing big fund if there need be ...

But like ive mentioned, I don't do such with wallets containing my Bitcoin since Bitcoin blockchain does not support dapps in the first place .

Despite the fact that airdrops were just full of scams back then, at least there were a few I benefited from, like the first Doge coin I received in my wallet through an airdrop I earned it, but nowadays, airdrops are just fucked. I doubt if there are even any real and legit airdrops out there. It's been more than two years now since I looked at airdrops because I know they're now full of scams. I have also abandoned all my ERC wallets (although I have the private keys) because, for a long time now, I have not looked at altcoins. Bitcoin has always been my priority and will be until I have accumulated enough of it.

I agree with what you said, also I don't see too many people having crypto assets hacked but if we talk about investment losses there are millions of stories to be told. I believe there is no one who has never invested in scam projects or has never lost money when participating in this market, especially early investors. Because in the period 2013 - 2017, most of the projects at that time were ponzi, very few serious projects. Luckily, I have never been hacked, but the investment and trading losses were a lot.

No hacks for me. But scam, yes, I experienced it.
Hacks for me are really easy to identify since I'm into technology and let's say I'm the person who is techy, so I am aware more on what I am doing online and it helps me to protect my Bitcoins or any other funds.
Knowledge is always your partner to avoid hacks.

Before and after joining this forum, I have never experienced any hack before. Although it is not by my smartness but I was just lucky I was not vulnerable to all those type of attacks before joining the forum. After joining the forum, I have learnt a lot from the forum and also have being extra careful with my dealings online which can prompt that, thanks to the forum for the guide we receive without having to pay a penny for it.


This is a very common hacking technique, it is well known to some people as “Clipboard Hijacker Malware”, the cyber criminals will change the wallet address you’ve copied in your clipboard to theirs without you noticing especially if you’re the type that don’t double check your wallet address online while using them.

To be free and safe from such malware, you just have to install and keep updating your anti-virus and anti-malware softwares to the latest version to help fight against such malware's which can make you lose your funds easily.

This is very common, I have heard stories of it happening, but not actually on crypto but on online businesses that involve transferring money from one country to another. It is during the payment that the changes will be made in a way you won't dictate easily.

To avoid falling victim to that, one should double-check what he or she pasted on their browser before sending as you have already advised. No one is bigger than to fall guilty of such acts. Double-check before you press the send button is very necessary once it's an online transaction that involves money.

Use small wallets for airdrops because you already knew how risky it is if you use your main wallet to interact with unknown smart contracts for claiming airdrops.

If it is retroactive airdrop which is based on your previous on-chain transactions, interactions, you can move your coins to a new wallet before claiming airdrop for your initial wallet which is already empty after the fund transfer. If you unlucky interact with a malicious smart contract, you will only lose small amount of token, not lose all.

You can use some websites to revoke smart contract access too.

https://app.unrekt.net/
https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker
https://revoke.cash/

Tips on how to revoke token approval

The first time I lost my asset was after I connected my wallet to some site where I needed to claim some airdrop tokens. Since it's a multi-wallet, I had more than one coin in it, but after I connected my wallet and claimed that coin, I lost all my valuable crypto assets. Although there aren't many people paying attention to any sort of airdrop because it just worth it this time around, my advice is that crypto users should never connect their wallets to any site online because it can only result in their security being leaked. Also, some investors have lost their assets because they lack good security knowledge; they staked their coins on some platforms, with the hope of a high APY and ended up losing their assets. It is better to hold your bitcoin in your wallet than to invest it.

Storing in a Hardware Wallet is more secure, but you can't expect 100% security.
There will be some loopholes that can be utilized by hackers to try to penetrate it.
So you need to be careful even if you use a Hardware wallet, especially using a Hardware Wallet that you use all the time.

What happened to @julerz12 was entirely his fault and he was using an Electrum wallet on a device that may have been infected with malware.
But now he seems to have learned from his mistakes and is using more secure storage and paying attention to the devices he uses.

I've read all the comments above and usually, forum members do not get hacked, others might experience hacking but it was since they are a newbie.  The same on my side, I never get hacked and I'm lucky that I'm a part of this community where I am always aware of the possible hacks and how to avoid them in the future.  Those people who have been hacked might be because they're new to this crypto world.

As long as you are technically knowledgable I think you are far from that hack, scam, or even fraud.

I don’t understand why you guys are calling it a bitcoin hack. Let’s get that clear, there has never been a bitcoin hack in history, crypto exchanges and bitcoin wallets are the ones that are 100% not secure from hacks. The bitcoin network in itself is secure and cannot be manipulated. Your wallet security will determine the safety of your coins.


That’s a bit paranoid. How many people would want to result to such drastic measures to secure their bitcoins. For those who may not find using an old computer attractive, another option would be to use Electrum wallet on an air gapped computer.

I don't know if this is an appropriate reply but when it comes to hacking, only a few people are victims of it but if you added scams on your list, I'm sure it will be flooded with replies about how they ended up losing their money on scams. As for me, I had a tough experience with bitcoin investment in my early years in the crypto industry, because I invested in a Ponzi scam cloud mining investment which was the trend back then. This is one of the reasons why you shouldn't believe in passive investment especially if you don't have any idea about the company and you also don't have any evidence about the components they are using on their mining facility.

Since my history or story in cryptocurrency and mostly in Bitcoin I have not be hacked in Bitcoin before or been scammed through bitcoin, it's not that I'm very careful for scammer's but i always be careful and also follow some protocols. Sometimes we feel that we have been hacked whereas we are the major thing that contribute almost eighty five percent of the our problem, because someone of us document or store our seed phrase online or email and when someone penetrate through our email it will be very easy to see our seeds phrase to penetrate into our wallets, before a wallet is been hacked their is atoms of seed phrase exposure.

Well I would classify myself as an amateur in the crypto space because my stay hasn't been all that long but I presume some old early folks are the ones to have experienced such a thing as bitcoin hack because with the mighty rate of awareness ongoing on how to perfectly safeguard your coins, I guess it would be rare to actually see something fall into such situation especially when there is so much mistake of others to learn from.

Never happened to me hacking in bitcoin because these assets are now stored in hardware wallets so it's quite safe IMO.

But if you want to see a story that happened here about hacking then @julerz12 has experienced being hacked for bitcoin in an Electrum wallet.
[1] I've been hacked (Electrum 4.3.2)

Now all these scam attempts make me skeptical about every link shared with me by a stranger. I always tried to be cautious so that scammer wouldn't be able to get anything from me. I got a lot of messages in telegram and discord from strangers with some imaginary and lucrative rewards but they ended up being on my block list. That is why I stopped doing airdrops when some of my friends earned a good amount of money from them.

I have never been hacked but I am interested in responding to your post because it seems that you are experiencing the same scammed from the 3 cases described, you may not validate and check every site so you are very vulnerable to experiencing the same fraud cases from phishing and malware. We must increase extra security to protect important data stored on computers, make sure you know how to protect your computer from anything related to hacking and scam, because data related to private keys or phrases is very sensitive if you do not protect the security on your computer , another anticipatory step is to move important data to the hard disk and compress the data into a zip file with password protection.

Important data stored on an external hard disk will be safer, make sure you use the best quality to guarantee device security. Even though the virus software security feature has been activated on the computer, it is not recommended to store any important data on the computer, because hackers are getting smarter in developing malware viruses to attack important data stored on sites and computers, many cases of hacking have happened to crypto users, be careful and you should be wary of accessing each site and not installing illegal applications.

luckily I have never been hacked before. But I was scammed once and prevented several attempts but none of them was with my bitcoin. I can share with you those stories.

Scammed: I was trying to participate in a token sale on a platform called Balancer. The scammer put an identical link to the main one.

1st scam attempted: One scammer offered me a job and wanted to take an interview. After the interview he wanted me to fill up a contract form that contained malware that would help him to take control of my computer.

2nd scam attempted: Another scammer pretended to be a game developer and wanted me to test his game. I was smart enough to use a sandbox to run his application which was malware as well.

There were a few more but I can not remember them well.

What do you mean? Drastic measures lol? The links you can get using my provided Google search queries are literally first hand stories of people having their bitcoin/crypto getting hacked lmao. I just pretty much linked to older threads/topics where OP can grab some stories for the articles he/she is working on.

Luckily, I have never been hacked or lost my funds but I've heard stories from friends who fell victim to hacking and lost their bitcoins. In one case, a friend had his entire PC compromised and the hacker had a full access to his email and all of his sensitive information. The hacker then proceeded to steal his funds from his Binance account. What's even more unfortunate is that my friend had saved his seed phrase in a text file on his desktop, and as a result he lost all of his bitcoins aswell.

This sad experience led to many sleepless nights for him, but since then he has become highly focused on his security measures to protect himself from future hacking attempts.

Protection is no joke especially when you're holding a lot of bitcoin.

If you use your device carefully, self limit your curiosity and avoid to click on links, visit strange websites, download files from strangers, generally speaking having healthy habit, you will mostly be safe on the Internet.

Click on suspicious email to check it is risky because you can click and download malicious things or can fall into phishing sites and lose your accounts, passwords and your coins.

Bitcoin and altcoins are different and don't try to find wallets that can store both bitcoin and altcoins. If you see such wallet, it is wallet for Bitcoin-tokenized tokens (Wrapped tokens) that are not Bitcoin, but altcoins with Bitcoin in their token names.

https://coinmarketcap.com/view/wrapped-tokens/

Lucky for me, I still haven't gotten hacked and gotten my Bitcoins since I am really careful and cautious about what I am downloading, and maybe I do have a little background on it and know the way around to keep me more safe. But I do have stories of my friends that got hacked, mostly because they opened something in an email or message that was suspicious, and that is where they noticed that their Bitcoin was now transferred to another wallet. They also trusted their friends because they were trying to invest in Bitcoin and wanted to have one wallet on it because they were also buying some altcoins. His friend stated that they got hacked, but it turned out it was his friend who transferred the assets when he tracked him.

recent arrival to my bitcoin forum. Still, I consider myself very lucky. Because so far I have not been a victim of a Bitcoin scam. But I hope I will not be a victim of such fraud in the future. That's why I am following everything from experienced already. Hopefully in the future I can make a success out of scams.

So why use such drastic measures?

Maybe OP wants to hear these stories first hand.

Not everyone shares stories of bicoin hacking in online communities. Most often, because people are ashamed to tell such stories. All the same, this is in a sense a fail, most often made by mistake of the bitcoin user himself. We (people) always willingly share success stories, but we try to keep silent about failure stories.

For example, I know one such story that happened to a friend of a friend of mine and therefore not all the details are known to me. All in all, he lost several hundred dollars. After the incident, he immediately changed the laptop to an old old laptop, with the hope that this device is so old and has not been used since the Internet was clean and safe. In this way, he wanted to avoid modern viruses, which may not be on such an old device. I don't know if it helped him in the end.

If anything, I told this in confidence and the hero of my little story didn't agree that these events were reflected in OP's article.

Being hack is not a good experience one should brag about because it's something that has taught one a lesson the hard way and it involve loosing hard earned amount of money in bitcoin, nevertheless, we can still bring in our own experience out to serve as motivation to other and for them to learn from, am never a victim of hack and never see myself in such mess in the future because am always at alert when it comes to security measures, but I've seen some people who lost their bitcoin due to hack on exchanges or from their non custodial wallet, once this is done, all asset are not recoverable.

I have been hacked before, and that's because I used a crap crypto wallet called coinomi wallet, some one managed to get into my wallet and moved out doge coin that I have gathered for years through 2016 and 2017, I am talking millions of Doge coin, and also my Bitcoin, it took me out for weeks and I got back on my feet, what I couldn't find out till date was...

1. At the time I hunt for many Airdrops so I have connected the wallet to many platforms.

2. I suspect the iancoleman website too because I insert my recovery seed into this website.

3. Maybe Coinomi wallet ripped me off, because the wallet isn't non-custodial open source wallet, later I read that some people also lost assets using coinomi wallet.

Till this day I don't know how the wallet got compromised but I learned from my mistake, I started learning the differences between crypto wallets, which to trust and which to stay away from.

I have never been hacked but I've received phishing link attempt on multiple occasions. There was a time I was receiving series of a well crafted multimedia message service from an unknown number with a tap, instructing me to "tap download" to view message.  Whenever the message comes I delete it, it was so annoying and it got to a point to that I was receiving atleast one of such message every week. This gave me serious concern that I had to look for a way to permanently block the number from sending me messages. Another phishing attempt is via email, that I have won a prize to a competition I never participated.

Airdrops are one of those ways people can get their wallet hacked and drained within a twinkle of an eye. We have to  be careful on how we chase airdrop projects or avoid them if necessary.

Some of those will require you to have a limited amount of a certain cryptocurrency in the wallet you are to use for connection to be eligible to receive the airdrop on their given date, and you're prone to a possible draining of your wallet if it's a scam project.

 If you must  for such, you should always use a whole new wallet to be on the safe side if you can afford to lose the specific amount of cryptocurrency required for such airdrop eligibility if you eventually get hacked and wallet drained, you won't have to worry as you would have if it were to be your main coins holding wallet.

My story is about Ethereum, not Bitcoin, but I think it's still relevant because something very similar could happen to a person who's holding Bitcoin, especially to a newbie. It's from my early days when I was largely ignorant of the risks, wallet differences and other important matters. I bought 1 Ethereum at a very cheap price (below $20) and chose an online wallet to store it. That wallet was very popular back in the days, but it was a centralized platform, a custodial wallet. Everything was good at first, but then Ethereum rapidly grew in price, and so many got interested in withdrawing their coins to sell them for fiat. That centralized wallet platform declared that they were hacked, but that they'd do partial reimbursements of funds. I filled in my application and got 60% of my Ethereum back, which I immediately withdrew to a non-custodial wallet. In the end, taking into account Ethereum's growth, it was still a very profitable investment for me, so I got lucky. But I never got the rest, and many people didn't get any reimbursement. The platform went silent, stopped responding to any messages, and many consider it an exit scam.
I remember there was a collective action against them, a big cybercrime victim report to some US authorities. I filled in my information there as well, but it never led to anything. I think it was to the US because the owner of that online platform was a US citizen, but I'm not sure. I don't think it led to anything in the end.
It's just a simple personal story of why non-custodial wallets matter, why being the sole owner of access to your funds matters. Even if a platform has a good reputation now, it doesn't mean it won't eventually perform an exit scam, mismanage funds or be a victim of a strong attack from which they won't recover.

What I use to do is that I have a separate wallet for the connection because I do not trust any site. It is not what I do often, I have only done it two times before. I recently bought wsm, on their telegram page I asked a question and people started adding me to scam me in a way they want me to think that they are helping me with the question. Thanks for this forum, maybe I would have be scammed. Someone among them even sent me a link on telegram that is the real link to the wsm, I copied it and paste it on a word editor and checked the URL but it was a scam link. I do not know how that happened, but they are just waiting their time.

Stories about how people have gotten hacked will be helpful to the people who have a strong security consciousness and are very interested i9n not becoming victims themselves, not the people who are less concerned about their security and careless about keeping their bitcoins safe. Unfortunately, no matter how much of these stories are shared and the lessons that the victims learnt, these categories of people will read the stories and forget about it in a few days if not a few hours. They never learn from people's experience and because of that they still become victims in the future.

I even forgot if I ever got hacked or not but I didn't expect it to happen to me.
It's very painful to have an account or wallet hacked because we will lose the coins we bought and are just waiting for the time to sell.
But I suggest not keepingkeeping your coins on the exchange but keeping them in your wallet.
Be careful about providing your personal documents to any site and check everything before you give them to the site.

I never encountered any crypto hack yet, but one of my friend's wallets was hacked though it wasn't Bitcoin. His metamask wallet has been compromised and lost BNB & USDT. From his investigations, he had connected his wallet to an untrusted site that drained his entire wallet. So before connecting your wallet to any site make sure it's trusted.

For me, I always try to secure my holding with a non-custodial wallet and don't connect my wallet to any untrusted sites. If I really need something and connect my wallet anywhere, I just create a new wallet and connect. I care about my private keys and seed phrases. For Bitcoin, I use a Ledger hardware wallet that is quite impossible to hack without compromising my seed phrase. Remember, don't click any popups from any sites with greedy offers. That might hack your device and wallet so easily.

I never get hacked, but this is what I do:

1. Learn about privacy: Tor network, temporary email, secondary phone number, Linux and never share your KYC to any site.
2. Never join any airdrop, bounty or giveaway that will ask you to sign up or anything that make you share your identity.
3. Install adblock.
4. Never click any unknown site especially the site is still using http.
5. Only use no KYC P2P or decentralized exchange.
6. Never show to anyone about you wealth in social medias and real life.
7. Stay lowkey.

I experienced being hacked when I used an online wallet as a place to store my Bitcoins and altcoins. In the early days of the crypto world, there were several online wallets that provided storage for not only Bitcoin but also several other coins, and this was often the choice because it was easier without having to download and also because of a lack of knowledge regarding the importance of private keys.
It was a lesson that online wallets are not a safe place to store our Bitcoins, either for the long term or for the short term because two possibilities can happen, the account is hacked because the level of security that we use is weak or the online wallet is down due to being hacked so that all the assets of the wallet user experience the same thing and are lost without being able to be recovered because the wallet developer is not responsible.

I have not been hacked before and I do not think that would be possible because I do not take security as a joke.

Do not safe your seed phrase online
Avoid clicking on ads
Cold wallets are the most secure
Check and recheck bitcoin address before sending it to someone that wants to send you bitcoin or before sending bitcoin to someone
Using passphrase can help against attacks that are not online, but if you forget the passphrase, your coins would be lost
Read about how airdrops and KYC can lead to hack
Avoiding phishing attack. Read about it.
Do not let the public to know that you have bitcoin
Use 2FA if possible
Avoid saving password online

This is not what OP is talking about, he is talking about individual, that if their wallet have gotten hacked before, that how was it hacked and the experience we have about hack. Probably the OP is working on an article to help educate other people.

Don't click on phising links or any random link from an exchange especially from P2P and I'm saying  this because I've been a victim and I was scammed of a $150 loan from shashan.
Also avoid following prompts from random emails claiming to be what they are not and in cases where you get an email you're not sure of, the best thing to do is contact the service and customer support of same company  to get confirmation  from there and if they have a social media account, it is wise you try to reach out to them and other users.

In all, don't click on random link and always make sure to use a 2 Factor authorization for every transaction.

I have never come across news that would say that Bitcoin can be broken. Maybe the OP worded his question wrong. There are a lot of such stories of people who have Bitcoin in their assets, their devices, or their inattention when saving seed phrases, as well as their inattentive attitude during transactions when the stealer is working. I believe that if you sort the stories of people who lost their Bitcoins, they will be somewhat similar. So, OP, I don't think you'll hear anything new here.
For there to be fewer such stories each time, accuracy is required, as is distrust of all centralized places where they supposedly provide reliable storage. Be your own master of your funds.

I think the most common hack was the "browser hijacking" ...where the hacker downloaded some software that detected when I copy/pasted Bitcoin addresses and then hijacked the clipboard content, by replacing it with his/her Bitcoin address.

The lesson that I learned from that was to double check the address that I paste in a sender wallet field to see if it is the actual address that I copied as the destination. 

It is something simple.... but it can happen to anyone, if you are in a hurry and you do not double check your destination address.   

Here's the trick, just search Google using this search queries:

site:bitcointalk.org i got hacked
site:bitcointalk.org my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my crypto got stolen

Those alone should give you ample amounts of content to write about.

I know it's not exactly what you asked but I have never had my bitcoin holdings hacked because soon after I learned about it I bought a hardware wallet and since then I have never had any problems. However, over the years I have read stories of people who saved them online and got hacked (as well as people who saved seeds online).

The only hack that I ran into was back in 2015 or so when there were new alt coin added every day and I ended up downloading some new wallet which had malware. It was on a mining rig so nothing to steal but it made me be more cautious about downloading software from people who are newbies on this forum.

Another was basically keeping coins on exchanges and these exchanges got hacked or went bankrupt. Had a few of those throughout the years. Basically get a hardware wallet if you want to be safe.

Calling all Bitcoin enthusiasts! I'm writing articles on safeguarding your precious BTC from hacks. If you've been a victim, please share your experiences below. Your stories will empower others to protect their investments.

 Let's strengthen our crypto community together!