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Topic: What happens when a wallet file is stolen? (Read 784 times)

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Crypto in my Blood
December 24, 2018, 04:17:24 AM
#70
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?
This is a very simple and easy incident that if anyone steals your wallet he won't wait to transfer it from your wallet. So I can't expect to get back my money though I can access my wallet. I said it for the accounts like as Private Key wallet.
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December 23, 2018, 09:03:18 PM
#69
If your wallet.dat file is stolen, you may still have access to your coins if you already have set a passphrase. If you don't set one, you will lose everything.
This is true, so you must develop the habit of setting a password for your wallet, which is the last line of defense to protect your assets.
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Bcnex - The Ultimate Blockchain Trading Platform
December 23, 2018, 03:24:46 PM
#68
Once your wallet file is stolen it means there is no way to recover it and you will lose your assets and information. So to make secure your wallet try to buy a hardware wallet which is the top class wallet in the market. Hardware wallet will help you to save your wallet file.
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November 30, 2018, 06:23:06 AM
#67
If you set you a strong password there then there is a little chance to recover it but most of the cases it cannot be recovered. The investor needs to take better security step to make secure their wallet file because it is extremely important once it got stolen means you lose all the assets.
jr. member
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November 30, 2018, 03:57:34 AM
#66
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?

no one can predict  Embarrassed
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November 29, 2018, 04:08:47 PM
#65
Unfortunately, if you lose your wallet file,  it contained are lost forever.  Don't forget to back up your file .
newbie
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November 29, 2018, 12:51:42 AM
#64
When your wallet file has been stolen, the coins inside your wallet for sure will be gone forever and your wallet is not safe anymore because the next coins to come are possible to be stolen too. It is now to better to change tge wqllet you are using and immediately change the address of the coin you are waiting to receive.
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November 28, 2018, 11:03:30 PM
#63
If your wallet was encrypted before someone stole your wallet.dat file and they didn't know your passphrase will be almost impossible to find it and spend coins, and you must backup your wallet file or private key offline (usb stick or write down on a paper) when you see that your wallet file was stolen (i don't know how you see that, your wallet file dissapeared maybe) then use your backup and send your coins to a new wallet.
copper member
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November 28, 2018, 06:30:40 PM
#62
They have access to your coins, as soon as they move them out they are gone.
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November 28, 2018, 05:16:17 PM
#61
Once you loss your wallet file you will loss everything. You will not get access of your account. But if you have the file and someone hack or steal then the thief/hacker will have same power of you.
full member
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November 27, 2018, 01:30:12 PM
#60
Nothing will have to do if your wallet file is stolen if once it is stolen nobody can get it back. So always be careful to save your wallet file if possible buy a hardware wallet to provide the best security.
jr. member
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: ”Decentralized Digital Billboards”
November 27, 2018, 06:46:24 AM
#59
Once your wallet file is stolen and the thief has access to your private key your coins are gone but you have the ability to monitor the transactions made on the wallet
newbie
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November 27, 2018, 03:47:42 AM
#58
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?
there is no solution, I think it will go forever.The only thing you can do is learn to avoid this situation.
newbie
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Merit: 0
November 26, 2018, 08:32:48 PM
#57
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?
I don't think there are any way to recover, I will go forever and never come back. That is the reason why you should be careful.
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November 02, 2018, 09:25:57 PM
#56
There is no way to recover it, specially when someone who stole it transfer it to his own wallet. On the other case, if you forgot or lose your key, it will forever be in your wallet and no way to recover it unless remember the key.
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November 02, 2018, 09:19:22 PM
#55
Predicting the existence of crypto will be lost or will always be very difficult, if there are still many who are interested and buy lots of coins, then crypto will always live, let's preserve bitcoin to become the main digital currency in the world.
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November 02, 2018, 08:39:43 PM
#54
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?
Basically, if you lose it or someone still from you the key, the fund will totally be gone and no way to recover it again. The next time you store your coins, ut would be better if you'll have secure backup system. Like HODLER wallet, they have a feature called HODLER Secure Backup (HSB), it is an innovative feature developed by HODLER team. It will allow the user to create a backup of their seed alternative to the standard paper backup, it create a PDF file containing QR code of the seed and then packed as an encrypted archive.
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November 02, 2018, 07:17:27 PM
#53
Will the bitcoin are gone forever or there is a way to recover them?

If the wallet was already stolen there will be no possibilities to recovered unless it will return it back to you. I hope that there will be additional security for our wallet like in every transaction there will be approval key number to our cellphone before transaction proceed to prevent wallet stollen.
If it is already stolen there is no possibility for it to recover because even the wrong transaction is irreversible. You must have to make sure that you have a authentication that connected on your device that can secure your wallet. When your wallet file is stolen you have to transfer all the coin you have into another wallet for it safety and add more security for it.
yup, if it has been stolen, it means that you can't go back anymore, you can only release it and create a new one, because every wallet must be very safe so we must always be careful to save the file and private key.
newbie
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November 02, 2018, 06:59:13 PM
#52
When your wallet is stolen, the likelihood of getting it back is very low, unless the luggage is returned to you Grin
full member
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November 02, 2018, 06:55:11 PM
#51
I think that you should do your best to prevent this because it is a difficult situation and you won't be able to get your coins I think or perhaps this will be problematic for you
Well, its the end. Since crypto wallet is decentralized so the stealers or the theft's identity cannot be identified and its hard to make it back for we have no control already if it is transfered to other wallet, therefore we should to keep our wallet safe.
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