Yesterday, I imported my ICO account to the Chrome Client and waited for my Waves to come in. They did a couple of hours later. So far so good.
Today I noticed that the funds have been sent elswewhere. And the balance is now showing up again in my ICO account. What has happened here?
(1) Was I hacekd and my funds stolen?
(2) Or were the funds sent back to the ICO account for whatever reason?
If (2) is correct: Why was that the case? And when will the funds go back to my client address?
For me the address that is shown on the ICO account is the one have to login with in the lite client
They both show the same amount of Waves.
Is the address in your wallet the same as the one in the ICO account?
Yes, addresses are the same. I see an outgoing payment from today, though, and the balance in the vlient is now zero. The ICO page shows a "balance". But as I now understand it is not my balance but rather the initial amount of waves received.
So I got hacked and the funds were stolen. I had a bad feeling about using a chrome client in the first place. Should have listened to that feeling. Lesson learned.
this seems like a pretty serious issue.
you should post the transaction info so some super sleuths maybe can help
since its not on an exchange yet maybe easier to trace
how do think it happened?
It happened by
(1) me being stupid
(2) me being even more stupid
(3) me being under stress becuase of hundred other tasks to do
(4) the lite client not giving any information on how the ICO import works (that could have saved me -- but, of course, I am responsible for my own error).
So here is what I did:
Trying to import my ICO I found this button "generate seed". I thought this meant something like "generate new wallet". But I wanted to import my already existing ICO account. So what did I do? I pasted the waves address in the box and generated my address, because I thought at that moment it would be my private unique address. Needless to say that this address is very much public information. In short: I just did not understand in that particular moment that "Seed=privatekey=ultimate password overriding everysthing elese" but isntead thought some ICO information from me is needed.
--> The whole issue is not a problem for waves security but only for my sanity.
Sorry to hear that. I'm sure one of the WAVES team members will be able to assist you. Although they do seem like they are pretty busy at the moment. Have faith, should be able to get back to things sorted.
When you mentioned that the balance popped back up in your ICO account, that's already a good sign. You can follow this instruction by Twiggy Smiles:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRDKfKWXitBFrTII3CIq3haAJ771-MZCMD7SPWLNVBw/edit?pref=2&pli=1to properly import your tokens to your newly generated wallet.
Also, please please please please REMEMBER YOUR SEED.