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I had 5 BREEZECOIN tokens and they got randomly sent out to some contract, I did not send them and I am worried someone had access to my account. It might be normal but I am pretty concerened

It's not normal.

I would immediately transfer all the tokens and remaining funds to a different address. And you should probably create a new address. It is recommended to create new addresses offline. The easiest way is probably with MyEtherWallet, you can download it from their github and use it locally without an active internet connection.

Your wallet might have been phished. If you use MEW, always bookmark the site and never join sites that tell you get this and that token and put your eth keys in and then you lose access to your wallet. Please always bookmark your MEW site and never give out your private keys in any site, it happened to me as a MEW newbie at some point and was very painful, then I lost like over 2k usd worth of tokens and eth. It was a horrible experience.

So the first case might be that your private key has been exposed and your token has been stolen.
The second possibility is that there is a BUG in the smart contract of the token, which leads to the random transfer of the token.

This is the first thing that came into my mind! He's probably phished or given off his private key unknowingly.

Is this really possible? Bug in the smart contract that would automatically send your tokens to other wallet?

I think the OP should look more into this and trace the wallet which it has been said, and locate the wallet owner. Then probably confront him personally or then ask for help, there are lot's of members willing to help.

No, this isn't possible. How should the smart contract sign a transaction with your private key? Most probably the computer was compromised or he was phished.

Immediately move all the tokens that are in your wallet to the new wallet, it's because if there is a token sent but you feel never did that, then make sure that your wallet is exposed to phishing. Another case if your token disappears and there is absolutely no outgoing transaction, then your wallet is safe.

It's abnormal. Most likely Your wallet has been hacked. I recommend that you register a new wallet is not long.

do you have other coins? what happen to them? if you still have the coins in your wallet better send it to new wallet. if you use mew directly type it and you must bookmark it. also use metamask to connect to mew and it can block suspicious links. also if possible download malwarebytes they can also block sites. avoid clicking suspicious links especially the links that had been shorten. if you don't know where it address don't click it.

i got some coins too before like 2 months ago and they shows up like (SPAM) and these coins disappeared automatically from my wallet.

Or better use MetaMask. Here you can also link your existing Mew address like what I did. MetaMask does not require any other keys.

I would advise you to create a new erc-20 wallet
And transfer every asset you have out of the account

You have probably been phased out or a fraud attempt
regardless you can’t take chances and guess
You need to do the needful now
As fast as you can

Your tokens were sent out of your wallet either because you ventured into a phishing site and your private keys were exposed or you probably sent them out without knowing. Aside these, it is hard for your tokens to be sent out just like that.

The question to ask is not "Why" but what steps should I take to prevent further attacks on the tokens left in my wallet because its obvious yours were hacked. Aside all that has already been mentioned on this thread, you probably need to slow down on these worthless free airdrops and in particular be careful of the ones that will take you to a clone MEW site and ask you to sign and verify your wallet address. You get to lose your private key that way.

This is not by any chance normal !!

When funds are sent out from a wallet you hold the key to and likely the only person that knows it and finds tokens been sent out without you actually sending them out then your wallet has been compromised and the next step is to stop any future coins from going to this wallet asap!

Could you show us the tx hash ? i think someone have access to your wallet and that is very bad.
i suggest you to make a new wallet and immediately move your worth coins to your new wallet.

if in my understanding they take or withdraw tokens that they send are not in accordance with the contract because of a random delivery system, and I also believe that no one else accesses your account unless your password has been shared, so do not be afraid.

There is no way to get your tokens sent automatically as long as it is being done by person. As the transactions made here are embedded in the blockchain and thus getting locked out forever then there is not a slightest error that it is being manipulated. I think you have entered your private key in the phishing website and thus you have given it away to hacker. You should send rest of the currencies into new wallet and forget about this wallet. It is been compromised already and if you put more currencies in it then you will get screwed again. Its better not to use it and always take precautions while you use the ERC 20 wallets with private keys.

I think so too! Literally impossible for a contract to be made to have conditions like that. And i've never heard of it until now, that's why i asked, maybe this kind of thing is really happening to a lot of users idk.

I do not know exactly what happens, but you should set up a new account, try and find a way to avoid losing Private key in any form!
Wish you good luck and success!

Dont panic my friend , just check your privates. Change your wallet certainly. Pay attention more on your wallet.

Change your wallet. Everythin can be possible.But you need new wallet i think. Good luck

There is nothing normal in that.
Most probably your private key has been compromised. It is better to shift your tokens to some other ETH address. If you are in some bounties or airdrop, ask managers to change your address. Try to keep your keystone file, password and pvt keys safe. If possible, use cold storage. You can go for Hardware/paper wallet. Software wallets rae prone to hacking and viruses.

Sometimes,  if you are a newbie in cryptocurrency,  you may actually get things mixed up and what you should have keep,  you sent and vice versa.  I always encourage newbie to take some time to learn how cryptocurrency work,  doing that will safe you time and money!

How can this be normal? You have mistakenly given out you details out where someone is using to get your coins out of your wallet.

it looks like someone hacked your wallet account,
it is best to distinguish between email password and password wallet. carefully before sending your eth address and use google authenticator to make it more secure
may be useful ;)

Right on this mate,since so many phishing sites are being linked here nowadays,and even bitcointalk link has been used to put phishing activities,

For OP please refrain from using or entering links if not really needed because scammers and hackers are very mature in their skills in taking money from others

I think your wallet has been hacked. it wont be sent automatically without anyone sending it to other wallet. I dont see any problem or any issue on mew so I think you are a victim of some hacker out there.

it could be your wallet hit hack, so the coins can be sent by itself, my suggestion immediately move the coin that is still in the wallet to the new wallet for you safe from the hack.

You need to change your address immediately, such thing is a sign that someone else have access to your account and you need to beware. it's clear that if you keep on using that wallet you will end up losing even more tokens.
I recommend you to only use hardware wallet or desktop wallet since the security is far better than online wallet.

Have you checked etherscan to see whether your coins are still there? If it is indeed sent out, I suggest you to send all the other coins to another wallet just in case someone has your private key.

Any transactions that do happen in your wallet without you awareness or you arent the one who do such thing then its completely understandable that someones do have your privatekeys to access your wallet which means tokens inside of that wallet is already compromised. If you are lucky and you can able to pull it out fast than to the hacker itself then its good but if not then its a complete loss. Usually these kind of scenarios do happen where privatekeys being stole by phishing sites or malware on your pc. If you are on doubt you can make a new one and transfer all the balance from that wallet to the new one if theres still left.

It a 100% percent not normal, someone entered your wallet account and sent it out there is no other way to do this

I hope I'm wrong but I think your wallet has been hacked and if by any chance you still have funds or coins in your wallet then I suggest you transport them asap just to be sure and to lessen the damage you have if ever.

It's not normal, a transaction cannot happen randomly or automatically. Someone did it surely, they might have access to your wallet and can make more transactions. I would suggest you to make a new wallet and transfer all remaining funds into new wallet. Be safe, be secure.

You must of been hacked somehow.

It is better to create a new wallet and quickly send all your tokens over. Did you get phished? It is good to check your computer for virus and malware too.

Maybe youre wallet is compromised by a hacker, did you remember click a site and you input your private key there? Maybe you got phished. So the thing you need to do is to change your wallet as soon as possible and take care of your private key very well.

I don't think tokens will automatic disappear in your wallet, I've a lot of shit tokens, I need to send to burning address to clean up my wallet. So, immediately send all your tokens to news erc-20 address (better use other computer) because your existing computer maybe already hacked, remember don't click any link from unknown sender

maybe you should immediately move all your assets to another wallet or a new wallet, this is to anticipate if your wallet has been exposed to phishing or hacked.

Yes someone had access your account you should make a new one, maybe you enter a fake myetherwallet website you should bookmark the real myetherwallet and don't put your private keys when filling up the form in airdrop.

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Yes, probably somebody has, so you need to change your password right away, and even better than that, you should send all youe tokens completely to a new secured adress!"

This is generally not normal, since only you can send tokens of your crypto currency purse. But you say that they did not do it themselves, which means that someone else has access to the wallet.

It looks like your wallet is got phished or hacked by someone, have you recently visited a suspicious site? if yes, this is possible that you got phished. you'd better move all the assets to the new address for your security.

token wouldn't send their to any address by themself. it means someone already open your wallet and you get hacked. change to new address and make sure to be caareful when you want to open your walllet in future

How can that be normal when you have no control of your funds, this is decentralized and you alone have the control of your coins, so if it was sent without you knowing it, someone has access to it, you must learn how to safeguard your wallet first become accumulating tokens.

If your coin has been sent to another address without any authentification by you and it looks like your wallet has already hacked. It's not normal and you can try to track where the address that has been used by scammer to keep all of the hacked tokens or coins.

Be careful to save all of the data related to your wallet because it's really sensitive in my opinion.

Your account is compromised.Stop using it at once. If you have used to participate in any bounty campaign which is pending payment receipt, inform the bounty manager about and change it. Make sure never to reveal your private key to anyone, bookmarked your favorite site and use google web of trust as your chrome extension.

Would you be ok to post your address here? Would like to take a look at it. If you have other stuff in your address, you should probably get a new address and move it.

However, it is not a good idea to generate the address from the same machine as the first time. As long as you don't know what exactly is wrong, you should consider every part of the system that helped you generate and access your address compromised. Act accordingly.