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Hi all,

I'm quite new to bitcoin and only started collecting a few months ago. I've been using Bitcoin Wallet on Blockchain.info

I'm aware (now) that I should have been protecting my bitcoin better and using an offline wallet (which I've just purchased). My main issue is that last night someone somehow hacked my wallet and transferred my 0.831 BIT to another account.

Is there anyway to get it back?? Please help! That's a lot of money I've invested and just gone in a blink of an eye :-(

My wallet is: 74d2adcd-f1e2-4058-a55b-70f151610a1a

It was transferred to several others by the looks of it, then to one single wallet:

Transaction View information about a bitcoin transaction: ebded65e533a2054d87526cbcb2234e9eda37d3413505513781f19c074103db4

Transferred to these:
1FNWrWZvrbK1TYZV6yRJ8hMLU4paddModA (0.08612858 BTC - Output)
194JaKreEL3twQt54xwnbfNVnz61r2VLQ6 (0.00789946 BTC - Output)
1517oxYjtxBZz9qMa55oAZn2a9gcE66Bfz (0.13277809 BTC - Output)
13Hsdv1f6Ack1qgXnT69RvLQ1ifk6dQTBF (0.29081893 BTC - Output)
19zf5tDYybwPdygiv5JzH3RVSW1pmb4zcn (0.15567622 BTC - Output)
179q1SsVftLbF9boom5nWCM1z47P52Cbc (0.0760638 BTC - Output)
1N3yegSdqz2tsxL9aRj5q4SYj3F6o4YXHC (0.08489707 BTC - Output)

Then finally to this one:
1Pbs1z5rK4vUWLtjTkK1vxksWHyswTndzj - (Unspent) 0.83165538 BTC  -  0.83165538 BTC

It's unspent, but I don't know if that helps me get it back somehow??

I'm sooooo frustrated and feel so helpless!

Please help me if you can!

Thanks

I highly doubt you will be able to get your coins back, but let's hear what others have to say. I think most important though is to try and establish HOW your account got compromised and start looking for ways to prevent that from happening again. I am really sorry you got hacked.

First mistake.


Contact blockchain.info but it won't help you much. You had 2fpa activated?


No.


I understand how you feel but unfortunately there is nothing much you can do about it.

It seems like that money is gone, sorry dude. There is no way to reverse a bitcoin transaction. Once it is spent, it is spent.

Try and retrace your steps. Have you ever used your private key before putting them on blockchain.info? Also, consider how you generated your private and public key. Was it a legitimate source?

If you are able to trace where your money is and who stole it, you could find a way to take legal action or trap them into giving your money back. This is pretty unlikely though.

Everything I've done has always been on Blockchain.info. I've never bought anything with BIT, only saving it over the last months.

I've contacted them and given the details. Fingers crossed they can do something...but I doubt it.

Is there a way to contact the owner of a wallet?
This is where it ended up: 1Pbs1z5rK4vUWLtjTkK1vxksWHyswTndzj
Can I contact them somehow?

Thanks for your help!

I'm very sad to hear it, but like the other members said, there is not much to do, and it's very little chance to get your coin back. what you can do may make this an important and more cautious experience again

Sorry for the lost, how did they get access to your private key and your password?  I always advice people to avoid downloading any thing online, reading unfamiliar e-mails, this is often used by hackers to gain access to people's computer or laptop, be as it may I don't think it is possible to recover your BTC, try and update your security features in blockchain.info this will prevent future occurrences.

I am saddened with your post.. >:( these one is proof that our block chain wallet can be possibly hack. I do suggest that change your block chain wallet to more trusted and has a very high security to prevent any possible hacking.Also next time use special character in creating strong password dud.
for now try to complain with your block chain wallet provider and see what they can do, but I doubt it if they can still back the amount of bitcoin that was stolen from your account. :(

Unfortunately, no. Bitcoin addresses are not tied to certain individuals thus making your hopes die. Also, blockchain.info wallet is notoriously known for its bugs and (somehow) insecure website. If you want to use these kind of web wallets, always make sure to activate 2FA so that if anyone gains your identifier and password, they couldn't get in easily to your account.

theres a lot of scammer here in bitcoin especially in social media like facebook a group page that have many referral to earn some are legit but some also are scam i think you register in a site thats why you been hack because that is scam site you cant retrieve that learn by that and forget thats all you can do,i think you start a new savings then dont give up,blockchain is good bitcoin wallet i never experience like yours

Firstly, I'm not so sure if the blockchain can return the sent transaction and I feel sorry that you have to learn in a hard way. However, you need to change all you password and  activate your 2fpa but you need to format your computer before doing that.

sad to say bro maybe you can't get your bitcoin back unless blockchain will help you to restore it, make a report of the incidence happen into your wallet and try to explain them what happen, what address did you open before it happens? did you open suspicious website due to your curiosity and then log in on it? or you download application? just update your security, this may take a lesson for all of us.

If indeed that is the bitcoin address of the hacker, how would contacting him help? Bitcoin addresses are pesudonymous and it is not easy to link an address to a real world identity. I would suggest forgetting your loss and trying to move on. Crying over split milk doesn't help anybody.

in your post you hack by someone and also have a transaction of your bitcoin we cant help you because you only have that we need a reason like are your friends know your password or somebody hack you in blockchain or like you register in a site that are pshing site or scam site?i think you know also that your information is not enough to handle what you need in this situation because if you only say that blockchain is hack you thats not a trusted reason because i use blockchain many times i dont experience what you post here

There is no way we can find out who's behind this.

Sorry.

Let's believe in karma.

Pfff thats really bad, you have to accept that you lost the coins forever. Its impossible to find the person behind this i guess.
lesson for the next time!

I feel sorry for you bro, be more careful from now on.

You can't, because privacy policy of all the websites as well as the same characteristic of Bitcoin won't let you do so.
How can you contact anyone you don't even know? I googled all the addresses that you have mentioned here but sadly, didn't find anything.
That's a disadvantage somehow because hackers just run away as they can't even be traced due to "privacy" attached to their IP addresses too as such things also aren't allowed to be seen for their wallets. Can only advice you to try using offline wallets next time you wanna collect them.

I think you're the first instance of a SINGLE PERSON being hacked. Exchanges and groups of online wallets have been hacked before, but you as an individual have been hacked and all of your coins have been stolen. If I were you, I would get a new computer because you probably have a lot of viruses and other malware installed that you don't know about. This is probably how they took your coins, hackers already have access to your computer and was able to steal your private key.


What if OP was a bad guy in real life and he really deserved all his coins being stolen? That might be karma in itself, you know?

But OP, next time don't keep any of your coins anywhere online.

There are some exceptions, I have a couple of thousand dollars worth of coins online because I have no choice... Otherwise, keep it offline.

Around 4700$+ hacked? very sad news.You can contact blockchain.info but maybe they can not refund you. You should use offline wallet to store bitcoin.You can contact with an it expert.To find hacker information and make a report in police with his/her name.

 I feel sorry that  :( :( :(

its sad to see another little investor has been hacked by someone who never care about stealing someone's money, its sad to say that there's no way to ask for that money to be send back to you OP, the only thing that you can do is try to trace the address but no assurance whether this wallet will still hold this btc or it will be cash out and exchange with fiat, this post should reflect as warning for those who still using web wallet to fully secured using 2fa.

Even if you contact the wallet address owner, they won't return your btc because their aim already is to stole from you. Meanwhile, you need to be more careful next time by activate your wallet 2fa, don't register some crypto site, news etc you're not sure of, don't use a public or share computer and check if keylogger etc were on your computer.

Where you using 2fa?

Is 2fa always secure?

I really do not want to say this but,  you really need to realize it. You have been so careless. Out of all the things you could've taken for granted, you took for franged your hard earned bitcoin. And i highly doubt that you didn't know that these things really do happen. Apart from news of peoples bank accounts being hacked back then, there are a lot of posts here and all over the internet sharing their experiences of their bitcoins getting hacked. And there are also a lot of advices to prevent this but you know to yourself that you ignored them.

The only person you can blame is yourself. I feel bad for you for I too have lost some things that are important to me back then. But i just had to.say it so it opens eyes. Not only yours but for other newbies out there as well.
I believe in good and bad karma. But it doesnt take away the sadness brougjt by being robbed of something very important to you.
For what its worth, i hope you get back what you lost.
Goodluck.

Bitcoin transactions are not reversible. Just to know, did you had 2FA? I believe blockchain.info is not a bad wallet if you have all security measures

I know it's very hard but I still hope you can get your money back. Good luck!

I'm really sorry to hear that.
However would like to keep pushing this post to let people know the importance of security before you head off to buy a large amount of bitcoin.
The safer the bitcoin, the higher the price it could reach.

Be safe.

Your blockchain.info wallet wasn't hacked. Your computer was hacked. Blockchain.info doesn't retain your password. And everything is done in your browser. It isn't really an online wallet, like holding your money in an exchange.

Do a malware and anti-virus scan on your computer, and also empty the data on your internet browser. Lots of bad people around in the crypto world  >:(

Sorry for your loses dude. Literally there is nothing much you can do about it, your device has been compromised and it was unlikely to get your bitcoins back. The best thing you can do it is to find out the source of attack, are you being key logged or somehow over network sniffing?  I'm not a technical person though.

The sum you are losing is heartbreaking, I hope you can get over it asap, a lesson is a lesson.


 

I am sorry for your lost bro, but unfortunately there is nothing you can do.
Once hacked, money stolen there is no possible way to get your money back, unless you find the person who has stolen money from you but that is impossible. Don't use online wallets, and if you do then make sure you have every possible security option enabled.

Wow I'm really sorry for the loss, that's a big amount of BTC.  I'd recommend getting a Ledger Nano S or Trezor wallet to prevent that from happening again.  If someone gains access to your computer with a virus then your btc are as good as gone, security nowadays isn't that great online.  John McAfee said himself that "There is no security online anymore"

I really want to know how to use an offline wallet. Because when I hear that some was hacked I am always scared. I do know how an offline wallet can protect because hacker are developing new phishing method everyday to use and penetrate computers.

Man judging by the type of questions you are asking, you really are new.
Noone knows who owns what wallet. So unfortunately noone will know who owns the wallet your coins were sent to.

The only way you will get your coins back is if the hacker returns them and we both know that is highly unlikely.

As I said before,retrace your steps. Did you click on any links, did you log into a public WiFi?? This is a very important exercise to make sure you don't repeat the same mistake again.

I'm shocked at your accident. This is a warning signal for us. We must be more careful about hackers! Don't worry be patient and try to overcome your losses. Good bless you!

Hardluck brother. I really have searched the web for all the possible options but unfortunately once transfered bitcoins cannot be brought back. Moreover addresses as everyone knows are not traceable so you are going to have a hard time getting it back.

There is no way that you are able to contact the owner of the wallet,the only thing you can do is to register a police complaint and with the help of authorities could trace the IP address of the hacker from blockchain.info and if you are lucky he might have kept some forensic finger prints and if that is the case you might get your coins back, the possibility of this result is really low,but that is the only thing you could try.

As others have said, unfortunately, your coins are lost forever, blockchain.info will not refund the coins because your wallet wasn't the one hacked, it was your pc. I hope this doesn't make you abandon bitcoin, and if you ever get more coins, take the appropriate safety methods to secure your coins. Good luck man!

i feel sad bt you cant recover ur lost bitcoin my frnd.
use offline wallet or increase your security of wallet
thank you

It can be recovered, once bitcoins go out of your wallet... they only thing that can happen is that the attacker decide to send it back to you, which is not likely at all.

Sorry, makes me think of providing more security for my wallets.

This is our big threat in bitcoin business, We can do nothing about hacking, No assurance to get back our lost, Extra careful next time, May we ask? Before that thing happens, any information about how the hacker get your security code. We would like to know more for us to be aware.
Feel sorry to you:(

There are many ways to earn once again bitcoin try to use security antivirus in your computer because the wallets of bitcoins are fully secured while PC of users are not that much secure they should need to aware about these types of issue that someone can access there PC/Laptop. So better way is that use Antivirus then your wallet will be 100% secure and nobody will access to your PC.

I am really sorry to hear that bro. We are all vulnerable to those kind of hacking and I wish we could protect ourselves.

is there any one who can tell us how this can be happen ??
and how can we defend it ?

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do, it was your PC which got compromised your PC or laptop may have a backdoor, one thing to keep in mind is most antivirus these days can't detect newly crypted trozans and viruses, so you should keep separate laptop/PC for downloading and installing new softwares,

Costly mistake, but hopefully it'll help you learn and progress further. I'm sorry for you buddy. Don't lose hope in Crypto!

Others have said that your computer has been compromised which may be accurate. However, you should also mention how you generated your private key. There are some dangers when generating a private key. If you use a malicious website or use some sort of passphrase that encrypts poorly this could be another problem.

For those telling OP to move on, he should not until he knows what things he did that caused this theft. If he doesn't know what the cause was he could be prone to having the same thing happen again.

Im sorry this happened, but this is why hardware wallets are so important. Keeping even 1 bitcoin online is not the best decision and opens the possibility of being attacked. Especially with blockchain.info which sucks balls and is often a target because many new people use it.

You are not keeping bitcoins online when you keep them in a blockchain.info wallet. It's entirely client-side. They do not have access to your bitcoins or your password. You can use two-factor protection (including a hardware Yubikey) and compel approval to open your wallet with an email notification. You can require a 'send' password in addition to the one that opens your wallet. You can recover your bitcoins with a 12-word seed if you lose your password and Yubikey. What they do require is that you use antivirus software on your own computer and never access your wallet on a public computer. Perhaps that is what you meant when you said "many new people use it" and if that is what you meant you are right. As for me, I consider blockchain.info the best there is. If you knew how many bitcoins I keep in my wallet you'd poop in your newbie pants.

I have been a member since 2013 (not on this account) and have met people who had 60,000+ bitcoins in real life, so no any number you say will not make me poop my pants you newbie.

Yes mate might be better if you have some code or pirvate keu on blockchain.info or export your account by decrypting it online but it might best to create a custom vanity address to make ammends like having your private wallet with your initial or name on it and it is easy to backit up but in blockchain .info you have your seeds before you must rest easy you should back it up already

Avoid online wallet as possible, if not, choose a decent and trusted online wallet with superb support capabilities and activate multiple security such as 2Fa, protect your PC's or other devices connecting to your wallets such as virus protection, browsing sites with vulnerabilities, opening unwanted mails, downloading or installing cracked software and such, in order to prevent malwares and virus infection.

I am sorry for the disaster that befall you, hopefully you are more careful at other times. and start learning from mistakes, that your coin storage should be in a safe place, never store it on the desktop because it could be exposed to the virus at any time.

Sorry brother it can not be recover ever i think. You can report on blockchain but i think it will not bear any result to you. Better you can do two factor security for future.

ooh lord ! how much did you lose? so sad
unfortunately i don't know what to do in this case  :(

I feel sorry for you, they just ransacked all of your bitcoins, do you make a reports in the block chain if they can return it?

Online wallets not pretty safe to keep your high amount of bitcoin bro. This kind of incident happen to me too. Once I have tried to log in from my office computer but search blockchain in Google search and enter into with the public address and verify with the password too. In next few seconds fund I have 0.21 in my wallet transferred to different wallet. After I noticed that was a similar ad pop-up site. Please be careful. Can't do anything to take money back.

Im so sorry, but you had to take a bit more of measures to avoid this. Im about to go offline cause it's a bit paranoid going through so much security checks. Is it there a guide to move from blockchain.info to electrum your btc?

Reporting to blockchain.info wouldn't do anything its not a breach in their security. they can't do anything.

Do you have any idea as to how you got hacked? Maybe your computer is compromised? I don't think there's much you could do about the stolen coins, but you should definitely try to know how you got pwned in the first place.

I really feel the pains in this,although some persons my say is out of carelessness but i feel its what is call time and unforeseen occurrence it befall us all,its can  happen to anyone. Sorry nothing can be done,just be careful though ,someone mint have gotten access to your Email that is linked to your Blockchain OR it has been hacked.

If online services had any use, they should at least try to prosecute the thieft, but the thing is, it's a lossing battle. Online wallets are in-itself a scam. Everything that isn't controlling your own coins in your own local wallets is a scam.

First lesson of bitcoin: not your private keys, not your bitcoins.

Never store bitcoins in online wallets of any nature, blockchain.info, exchanges, it's all the same shit.

Store them in a safe computer, or store them offline in a paper wallet, trezor, or an usb with your wallet.dat file on there. Everything else will get hacked.

I really feel pain in this. I'm sorry to not help you in this matter but i think you can make a report in the block chain. My seems they can give you a good opinion.

I'm so sorry for your bad luck. Every transaction in blockchain can not canceled, so you can not get your coin back. Blockchain.info also can't do anything for your lose. Buy a hardware wallet, and send your coin to your device, don't forget to backup your private key. Dont trust every unreputable website and don't use same password for your wallet if you registered in unreputable website

Perhaps I think he often uses other computers to unlock important data he owns, or he often uses other people's wifi, so others will find it very easy to know all the important data they have and easily steal all the contents of the data.

I am sorry to hear about your losses and sad to say that there is no way to recover the BTC. I suggest you to move on and to keep your BTC in the hardware wallet you have.

However, please clean up your computer and beware of virus and malware in the further. Always check the addresses you are sending BTC and altcoins to. There is new virus going around. When you copy BTC address, the virus will paste another BTC address which cause you to pay to the hackers’ BTC address.

We are sad to heared your story maybe this could be a lesson for you I'm not lecturing you or what on some way but even on me I really would hate that scenario having all my effort to go in vain and nothing to gain.

please always use passphrase to store your Bitcoins, make sure u use coinomi or mycelium wallets as these are cold wallets, we learned it after a lot of people got hacked, hackers are not asleep they know they can't steal ur money except they have access to your private keys or passphrase

I am sorry to hear that you lost some of your bitcoin balance, you can’t refund the transaction. for now try to figure out what’s causing you to lose your balance is a more useful thing than trying to restore your balance. Learn from today's accident so that similar accident won’t happen again in the future.

yeah your right ... keep away for downloads anything if you think there's a suspicious app or something do not click or download
scammer can do anything to scam us ... just keep it safe your details

It is our responsibility to secure our coins. We need carefulness double. So that no hackers can hack our wallet. Sorry for your lost bro.

Even he would tend to send support ticket on blockchain.They would really just neglect such thing  and they wont really able to reverse and transactions and make those funds back for sure.Knowing and trying out in the past that their support doesnt even care to reply you back when theres an issue happen to their wallet service.For OP,sad to hear out for your loss and theres no way you can get those coins back.Just moved on.

Would be nice if there is a feature in bitcoin which can invalidate the stolen coins and restore back to the owner what was stolen. although things will get more complicated as bitcoin is decentralized.

thats what so sad bro its nothing chance to get back your fund...just all you can do is trace your mistake and dont do again... make it learn its hard to move on but you need to accept...

In my personal view, it's a brutal tragedy Because you almost got 1 coin but a pretty geek stole it from you. Make sure next time you keep your wallet information because although Bitcoin security is accurate but keeping you wallet needs more attention to avoid problems in the future.
You can't take your Bitcoin back but you still have to continue to collect and keep ypur wallet secured.

I feel so sorry about it but this really the risk we have to take in joining this digital currency. Due to our very advanced technology many things can happen to our wallet so as much as possible let's keep it secure at all times. Me personally keeps my wallet offline so that it will not be that accessible to hackers. In this business field all we have to do is be vigilant and alert in our decission making.

I really don't get it why it is a mistake for the user to be using a bitcoin wallet from blockchain.info in the first place. If he had activated 2FA it would have helped but he didn't and i think people are being hacked all the time it don't have anything to do with where they have their wallets.

I'm so sorry about your lost almost 5.5kUSD total. There is a little to nothing chance when getting back your money if transacted with Bitcoin. Put a 2fa on your wallets bro make it secured never go esy with your password nd the security of your wllet next time. Goodluck.

This is a very painful thing to experience, waking up one morning and all your BTC gone... Am so sorry. You have to be extra careful next time. I don't think you can trace the person who did or where the money went to.