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last night some hacked my pvt key and steal all my eth and major eth tokens

can I secure my eth address or its now in control of hacker ?  ???

You must have made some mistake since no one can simply hack a private key since they are so secure in nature. You must have provided your private key by filling up a form or could have downloaded a virus which could have infiltrated your system and retrieved access to your private key. Either way, you messed up op and there is no way to recover your funds in my opinion. This is why I always suggest never providing your private key to anyone unless you absolutely trust them. Learn from this mistake op and be more careful in the future.

You must have used a fishing website of myetherwallet.Com before your private key was stolen.  For some months now there has been warnings about on the net about myetherwallet hack. If you didn't come across this news, then it's quite unfortunate and I am sorry for your loss

The better way to say this is that your private key was compromised and a hacker got access to it. Next time be more careful what you click and what you install.


No. Whoever has the private key for that wallet, has the rights to spend. It doesn't matter how many persons have this key.
So no, you cannot secure it. You need another one.

I am so sad to heard that, you have walk up and start from zero to fill in your wallet, ou have create new wallet and be careful when you are get some link in your gmail account. Never try to click link without you know and you have never joined their site, because many phising link sent by email adn take you myetherwallet data. Never give for everything have loss in you wallet, you have work hard to get all it.

I sympathize with your experience. But I believe it's not a hacker that black your private key. You may have accidentally betrayed your private key. Sometimes, when we fill out the form, we accidentally reveal the private key. In this case, we usually transfer to the safe address in time. Otherwise, someone else will turn your token. Be careful next time.

Its in control of the hacker unfortunately ... Next time don't store private keys or else on your computer better on usb, and use the metamsk which is simple way to access your wallet without using private key. Good luck

If you are using wallet like myetherwallet.com, you have to attend on browser url. Save borkmarks and do not install weird plugins for your security

Now what you need to do is create a new wallet and carefully preserve your private key. You can write on paper or save to a usb and keep it good.

Two things happens since last day yeah I mistakenly downloaded a windows activator from google and that might be a virus and a big mistake I made that saved my pvt key on google docs maybe it view able  >:(

Google docs reallty default view able or not?

They're both in control now.

It's a sad world we're living in op, it's crowded with bad people that shouldn't have a place. They should've been swallowed by their mothers from the beginning.

You should have been more careful about that. Hackers are inventing many new tricks to hack Myetherwallet.Now that yours one got hacked,it is recommend to open a new wallet and connect it with metamask for extra security. Forget about the hacked one.

Did you use the address of your wallet to the fishing website? This should be the key to the problem. You must pay attention to hackers trying to steal wallet addresses.

Both are big mistakes. Private keys are not supposed to be stored/backed up online.
And about activator, if you mean Windows activator, you may be considering in the future the fact that Win10 can work very good forever without being activated.

Be careful keeping your private keys. Hackers are now smarter to do anything as long as they earn money. DO NOT access your wallet's address on links that others provide via email or any messages.

So sad to read it (( but you must learn this lesson and be more careful in future,don't use your private key for watching your balance,you can do it with Etherscan. Avoid fishing sites and use Metamask for entering.

Now all the hackers in my opinion have gone to the crypto. The easiest way to make money for them. Unfortunately, you will not be able to fully protect yourself. Just rarely go to your wallet and store the private key better somewhere at home or in the head.

Google drive is not secure ? google docs view able right maybe thats the reason I got hacked

Is there some article or page where it lists what to do and what not to do in order to secure your wallet? Even though I am trying to be very careful and not install anything suspicious on my computer, I still do need some programs to be installed for my work. Is there a good safety guide?

If the hacker get your private key then yes he can also control the eth address.just make another wallet. Then you must be carefull next time

If your ETH Private Key was compromised - unfortunately the wallet is lost. :(

Just keep in mind for the future:
1) never share your private key to anyone!
2) keep your computer or smartphone under antivirus control;
3) be careful copying your Pirvate Key into Clipboard, because other applications often monitor your Clipboard.

you need
- scan virus in your computer
- create a new wallet
- transfer all token in old wallet to new one
- use metamask to login MEW and transfer token
- don't use private key to login or doing anything, just use metamask only
for using metamask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uJjfn4wizE

very unfortunate, maybe you make a mistake or less careful so letting people steal your private key. for the future, be careful and do not trust anyone. and immediately change your private key and eth address.

Now its in control of the hacker...Get a new account or get a hardware wallet which will be the safest way possible.

sorry to hear that pal 'cause it's now under control of hacker and you can't secure it anymore , I suggest to create another wallet pal and don't use it anymore, and next time be smart before doing anything especially with you wallets to prevent such situation.

In my opinion, you may reveal your private key, I hope that you can strengthen the management of the private key as soon as possible, and can not easily leak information. This is not safe for you. If you don't lose much, treat this loss as an experience. Reduce future losses!

Maybe you've got phised or you accidentally put your private key in an airdrop form. Private key is not hackable or if there is, it takes years to brute force private key. There is no way to secure your wallet now because thieves (Thives is the right term for perpetrator and not hacker)  know your private key the only solution is create new wallet and immediately tranfer your all funds in your newly created wallet.

It's so sad for you my friend. But unfortunatly you got nothing to do now. Just get a new wallet now and be more secured with it. One of my friends wallet was hacked too and he lost everything. Best way do protect yourself do not hold all of your money at mew.

Let's see....
Have you heard of anybody getting his e-mail account "hacked"?
Have you heard of the celebrity photos "leaked" from Apple's cloud?

If you think that Google drive is safe enough to keep money on it.. well, I don't.

Better choice is trezor i think hardware wallet for coins and tokens I will manage to buy it soon.  :-X

Wallets have different security levels. The security level varies depending on the wallet application you are using  and your wallet application. A web server is a more risky platform for your money than offline. Online wallet users may encounter security vulnerabilities that hackers can use to steal money. On the other hand, offline wallets can not be hacked; because they are not connected to an online network and are not connected to third parties in terms of security, you are in control.

The higher the security layer, the higher the security. To begin with, you need to create a long, complex password and use it to attract money. Use a wallet such as the Ledger Nano S, which provides additional layers of security such as two-step authentication and additional password each time the Wallet application is turned on

Since your private key has already been revealed to the hacker, your wallet is no longer safe. It is better to get a new ETH wallet and keep your private key safe.

All i can say is goodluck to you.
Simply go and create another erc-20 token wallet and transfer your shitcoins to the new wallet.

Then link your myetherwallet to imtoken and perform every transactions on imtoken.
Never use your private key for anything else. just secure it and enjoy your token

Hmm hacker already moved valuable coins nothing valuable there now but I am more worried about my bounty programs where I given same eth address and giving my months of work.

Yeah that's better choice I would do the same as you recommend private key is very risky thing. 

It is regrettable, then, that blockchain transactions cannot be reversed.
So if your token is stolen, there's no way to save it. :(

I think now you have nothing to do with your wallet as the hacker has the full control of it now. It is better to forget it and create another wallet, BUT take necessary actions to make it fully secured.

Hard luck mate . sorry about your lost. You must have exposed your private key somewhere especially on phishing site. For now there are no other way you can recover it  hacker is in full control as much as I know. I will suggest you open and imtoken account and start using . if the address of the wallet is uses any other place start changing them now with the new one .

Sad to note, its now in the position of the hacker, for some reason maybe you had entered into a phishing site, where you input all your details., there is nothing we can do right now my friend, but maybe you can create your new wallet, and never trust anybody after all.,and dont enter and open any sites prospected of scamming the users. Its a very common nowadays that hacker creates phishing site, in order to scam people from the community.

Take care and have your accounts secured next time.

very sorry to hear that. I also experienced the same as a result of my mistake. indeed we can not do anything, because hackers already know the private key, and most likely have brought all the funds in the wallet. With this incident you may be more careful not to give private key to anyone, and always protect with anti virus.

forgot about that wallet since the hackers took your coins so whats the need for that one

Create another walletnd this time make sure you wont be hacked,i guess you have entered in their phishing sites thats why you become a victim.limit ng link or sites that you have been entering because hackers using this as bait for their victims

Yes, no one cant just hack your private key and get an accesss to your funds, 95% you have shared it somewhere or stored unproperly, but in your issue I can say, that better would be to create a new wallet

This is one of those stories that no one would ever like to read, but which I see happen very often. It is essential to never send the private key of your wallet to anyone, do not click on links of strange e-mails you receive, and use latest generation antiviruses to prevent, or at least limit, these thefts

You must able to determine the sites for the safe of your key by not clicking or following others that not totally familiar with you because there are different techniques how they do hacked.Or just keep it in more secured.

First of all before thinking on how to caught your theif.... Transfer all your coins and tokens to new wallets... Just check the transaction details then you can trace it a little...

Sorry for such a scenario but always try as much as you can to avoid phishing sites. If the Hacker is still in possession of your private key, he can still transfer you remaining token. Open another wallet and send the rest there immediately

many become victims ..
and in my opinion will not be able to return the lost tokens ..and my suggestion to avoid going back ,, do not follow the project asking to send a private wallet ..

go to Socratus is a reliable crypto project that deserves more than now

A hardware wallet is the safest option. The main thing is not to save  24 words for recovery in Google drive. Better write them on a separate sheet and hide. If someone can get your words out, your money will not be safe.

I dont have any idea because I never tried being hack or scam by someone else. And I am not also able to buy or make my own wallet.

Of course not,create a new wallet and use it your wallet under the full control of someone who has a private key, and you gave it yourself by typing somewhere else or you have a lot of viruses on your computer.

That's one of the downside of cryptos, you are in-charge of your private keys and once you lost it, it's a game over for you, sorry about your loss, you need to create a new wallet and be care next time, don't put your private in any website, use metamask or imotkens they are a bit secured.

It is best to use Etherscan. This is a simple and convenient application that allows you to check the balance of your wallet without entering the key.

don't know how they hacked it.
what you said was very unclearly.
but I think you copy and paste it somewhere.
how much did you losse?
anyway, I felt sad for you :((((
there always another chance. good luck

In my opinion, if you are holding crypto assets that are worth over 1000$, you should invest 100$ in getting a hardware wallet ( i have ledger nano S). It the best investment that you can make for your crypto asset's safety.

Wow how did that even happen? Cannot imagine because your pvt key is as secured as it can be. It could be a virus or you must have given someone your pvt key. Someone you trust maybe?

The best option to safe your any password or private keys don't keep it in mails or mobile notes or internet connected devices. don't write in paper becasue even that also erase after few months so better option is take print outs and keep it in safe place this is also not 100% safe but compare to other safe methods this is best.

This is not acceptable mate, if you have accessed your wallet with the private key on any phising site which similar to Myetherwallet you will find the hacking on those site bro, Now after it has been hacked you cannot do anything to recover your wallet mate.

Check the wallet with the JSON file alone or use explorer to check the fund you have on your wallet. Simply accessing the all time with the private key sometime you may get inside the fake websites and you may loose the fund too.

you have to correct it before. Is there a mistake you made? because almost the average case of hack due to carelessness. so you have to reevaluate the chronology. or possibly other dns network you are attacked. that's mostly every case that happens

you posted this on June 5 so this incident happened recently is their coins left in your wallet? because if you have you can transfer it to another wallet just create another one you can save some valuable coins if the hacker did no transfer them yet, the gas price is high now tho, how much Eth did the hacker take?

If you keep large numbersof coins and tokens on your wallet, then I can tell you that it is much safer to buy a hardware wallet.

Correct mate, that is a very simple problem. If you can still access your account on Myetherwallet and if your token was there then quickly transfer into another wallet which is you fell safe to your private key. But if your token was already hacked then say bye bye, you can't be retrieved on it. Yes, carelessness makes us being a hack so we have our responsibility to keep our private key safe.
Avoid importing your main MEW account on the exchange, make it sure that the site of MEW is right.

It is true. I would also suggest that you separate the 24 words for recovery the hardware purse and hide them in different places just in case. and it's better not to tell anyone, about the fact that you have a hardware purse and a crypto currency on it.

Did you store your private key on cloud storage ?
You should write down your private key on a piece of paper and never store it on your computer.
If the ETH still there you can transfer your ETH to new address, but if it's gone.. it's gone.

Too bad! I am very sorry about it, there's nothing you can do now especially when the hacker is in possession of your private key. The only thing you can do now is change your ETH wallet by creating a new one, however try as much as you can to protect your new private key.

You probably entered the private key into phising site so the hacker got your private key, right now the best decision is to abandon the wallet and make a new eth wallet, don't forget to bookmark the real site and use the bookmark link whenever you access mew. Also please make sure you are in the right site before opening your wallet, if you care more about your security then that kind of thing won't happen again.

maybe you make a mistake or let someone else steal your private key. immediately create a new wallet and never again open the wallet through your smartphone because the security is easy to hack. my advice is to use a computer or laptop for more security.

it is now in the control of the hacker, you must change your wallet, try to create a new one, and secure it, dont ever expose it on public.

It good future saving wallet. No one can hack the wallet. Wallet key is your end. So you are the responsible for the your wallet. Don't share the wallet private key. If share any one easy to hack your wallet. If want to check the balance use the wallet address. Don't use the private key. This not safe. So safely use and follow the wallet rules and regulation. This information help to safely use wallet.  

That is really sad. Think of it as a life lesson and be more careful next time. Make sure you have secured your wallet and your computer is completely clean and free from all kind of nasty stuffs. Also be careful about those phishing sites. Always do a double check when you are about to use your sensitive information.
The best thing is to create a whole new wallet and forget about your last wallet. You don't want to risk anything.

The reports of theft of crypto currencies has increased day by day. Coin holders must be extra careful in the security of their coins. this meaning keeping their computer safe from malware, staying away from phishing sites and not giving away their passkey to any site. Choosing a stronger wallet will also increase the security.

If your private key is compromised there is nothing you can do, if you still have any tokens or ETH left there, better create a new wallet and move it there.
Always keep your private keys safe, keep them on a piece of paper or use MEW as offline wallet.
If you have a big amount, its always better to move to a hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger.

I am sorry for what you experienced, but it is certainly not one of the people who have stolen from you, this is what happened between the bounty bunter, there are some dianta those who just want to profit in the wrong way, but this is a great lesson for you will later when you fill a bounty form to be careful when filling the data, keep your swallow key in another place, so when you copy wallpaper amlamat you are not wrong to enter, hopefully this could be your suggestion.

you're victim of phishing dude, you need to creat new wallet and be careful next time that you fill up your info, you should observe first the site. i have a friend that also hacked and all of his tokens are gone.

be careful keeping your private keys. many ways hackers to steal our tokens. Now the hackers are being poor because the price is cheap in the market and trying to steal some of our money in a more sophisticated way.

I think hardware wallet is the best wallet for security. These wallets are cheap and very easy to use. You can use Trezor or BWALLET Trezor. But it’s also true no wallet can provide you 100%security.

Be careful with your private key. You might have done a mistake in copying and pasting it into a google form while filling up. Others also experienced that thing, that instead of pasting their eth address, they pasted their private keys.

It is better to create new wallet. If you lost all ETH from your wallet then no reason to keep this wallet. Once again hackers will steal your money. It is better to use wallet on computer specally designated for it.

There's no computer that specially designed to be a cryptocurrency but instead there's a computer that's secured to its core to save privket or to install wallet so that it will have a really tight security that hacker could barely have an access to.
I'd say if you want a simple way to secure your crypto just buy hardware wallet and you will all be fine.

blockchain is decentralized and under control of no regulations or individuals. if a transaction is completed it is not possible to do anything. whatever gone is gone. if you are hacked and your funds sent to somewhere else there is nothing that you can do.

i never using private key again to open myetherwallet because of security reason.
im using metamask to access myetherwallet account.
im suggest you to use metamask too for your new wallet.
good luck and be safe bro.

Damn. Why can hacker steal your assets? Are you surfing on an unsafe website? Or your mistake that you input private key in the form airdrop/bounty?

Yes, you can always secure your wallet and your assets. But there is something you need to pay attention:
- If indeed you have been surfing on an unsafe website, you need to re-install your device, upgrade your antivirus, I advise you to upgrade to Antivirus  Pro. Maybe your device has infected some viruses and possibility the hacker steal all of your data.
- After the first task done, you just install MetaMask at https://metamask.io , and save the mnemonic phrase from MetaMask to the safest place!
- Or You can to buy a Ledger Wallet or Trezor, it's more secure to safe your assets.

so sorry about this sudden incident, that is the problems with ethereum wallet please don't expose your details to external body to avoid being hacked. secondly wen ever you trade in some major exchanges like forkdelta, etherdelta please recollect to remove your private key; I mean logout before you close the window. they hack through exchanges.

I experienced the same but the hacker send ETH on my accounts and get the tokens that have value on the market. I have no idea how he stole my private private key and realized that it happened after I joined some airdrops which no earn until now. I created new wallet and transfer coins that left on the hacked account.

Security is a very serious issue now a day. I think that you have done something wrong with your private key as to hack private key is really impossible here. It can be happened that you have shared your private key with other or you have given your key in any site out of mistake. So be careful when using private key.

There is no way to secure the private key now. You have to be very careful while surfing on the internet. Next time please be careful.

you should replace that, create a new address wallet, and be more careful later to avoid something like this, keep your private key safe, don't be fooled by fake emails or fake airdrop, bookmark the MEW URL address in your browser (and always access MEW website through bookmark manager in your browser), and only use keystore to login rather than privkey.

Just because your private key can not be hacked. Most likely it was hacked the place where he was kept. Now there's nothing to be done. Create a new purse and keep the private key out of reach of others.

People's MEW keeps getting hacked in the last few weeks. We have to take our security very serious so we don't have this re-occuring from time to time. Best thing to do is create a new wallet and be more security conscious.the hacked wallet ain't secured any longer.

I think investors should limit their use of MEW wallets and instead Metamash will protect your wallet, and investors should trade on mycrypto instead of myetherwallet as it is now , encourage.

Every post like this hurts me and I feel fear that is I secure enough, My all hard working's money is okay? I feel very sorry for your loss but you can't control anymore your wallet. I mean you can't back your coins but you can log in in your wallet and you may move hacker's left coin to another secure wallet. Do not use Myetherwallet, please. This is shitting. I know hackers can hack without your Private key. They just need a clue. I Pray for you that you will recover your loss mate. Best of Luck.

The only way for you to be hacked if you are using a mew wallet is to recklessly reveal your self on a phishing site, because most of the airdrops today are just scam and it is one of the way for you to get hacked.

Mycrypto or MEW is basically the same, if you want to securely use both, make offline wallet by using their given source code in the github, it's way better than accessing it online so that you won't get phished into someone else's website giving away your private key.
Otherwise if you want a real security measure just buy hardware wallet instead and if you want an absolute security over your asset especially if you want to hold it for a long time, buy a mini pc and install wallet inside it, import privkey and never connect it to internet until you will spend the asset inside.

To prevent in getting hacked you must not access your myetherewallet using your private key. We know that there's so many phising site that can steal our private key and maybe like what happened on myetherwallet website the DNS hacking. You can use your json file to login or use metamask wallet for more secure way accessing your wallet.

There is a lot of ways o secure you key.
1st of all, remove it from yourpc.

Sound advise, just use metamask for added security when sending ETH and other token. Also, do not open links that contains suspicious script or  urls. Phishing is rampant nowadays. You can also add the EtheredressLookup extensions if you are  using chrome.

Sorry dude but when anyone happens to get access to your private keys, it's a game over, that's one of the down sides of cryptos, you just have to make another wallet and secure it better this time, I will suggest you use my cryptos new desktop wallet.

Ouch, that is quite sad but instead of feel upset about that you should learn your lesson about the thing happen to you,
so in next time you can avoid that thing happen and warn others about your experienced.

If you pay attention to the certificate and visit the right website you will be fine.

It's quite unfortunate that you're fell victim to these hackers but I doubt there is anything else you can do to regain control of the account since there's no way you can change the private key.

I had a similar situation where my wallet was also crashed and I do not know what to do and how to secure my new wallets)))

If you have truly confirmed that your wallet was hacked, the best you can dfo is to forget about that wallet. Do not use it again. If you cannot afford to by hardware wallet,you can download the extension of metamast.

Best case scenario forget that wallet open a new one because the first one is already under someone control since pvk is already compromised

At first I think you should check ETH transaction txid to see address which your ETH and tokens were sent to then check it on Google to see if that hacker is in this forum or not :). After that try to buy a Trezor or ledger nano asap. At the moment I think you should forget about that wallet cause everyone can access to your wallet as long as they have your wallet private key :).

I think that you should contact with the support team to solve your trouble. I hope that they will help you. Anyway it is a pity that your wallet was hacked. Tell us later how you have solved this trouble.

This is very sad, when you lose all the altcoin you have in the wallet because your personal keys are stolen I am sad to hear it, but this can be a big lesson for you because of your negligence in giving data pesonal because of lack of heart will incur big losses, but you do not dissolves in grief, you can create a new wallet and save your privatkey carefully, do not believe when someone asks for your key or other personal data, be careful in filling out the form of participation of a bounty campaign.

That’s horrible that your ether wallet pvt key are just being hacked but don’t be feel so uneasy and depress about this bad happen

hacked incidents in myetherwallet usually happen karean phising, maybe we can bookmark myetherwallet web to be more secure and also include keystone so we are not easy dihack. although not 100 percent safe but can anticipate.

With out your knowledge this is not possible . I dont know how they hacked and how they know your private key. Without proving your private key are without accessing any scam website its not possible. So they mistake from your side. you should protect your private key.

Its indeed quite easy to step on a mine when it comes to accessing your ETH wallet with a private key. I assume you have some spyware on your computer or the other option is that you made a mistake yourself and fell on some phishing link. Be sure to scan your PC with MalwareBytes or anything similar.

that's the weakness of the private key, vulnerable to hack by others, my friend always advise always be careful when opening myetherwallet site because many fake / phishing sites that resemble the original site and it caused many victims :-\

I'm so sorry to hear that, have you ever told other people about your private key? and also the most common is that you are not carefully copying your private key into phishing sites, because most of this can happen because of self-neglect

This is very unfortunate. Since your account is already hacked, then you cannot do anything about it anymore, it is gone already. You just have to make a new account to have a new private key. And let this be a lesson to you. Dont ever go on a phishing sites so that your keys will be safe. You should be very careful so that this will not happen again.

I really sympathize with you, but there is absolutely nothing you can do about the hacked account. It's gone forever! Just create a new wallet and be wary of the way you use MEW. It's not safe to enter MEW with your private key.

The best you do is to use another wallet or buy a ledger and if you can still salvage some of your funds from your previous wallet then to it with haste. Try also to reformat your computer you are using with access and data related to your cryptocurrency funds just to be sure.

Your Myetherwallet is no longer secure because someone else has access to your wallet so only you can do it now and make it more robust against hackers. You use Jsonfile, or metamask.

Nobody can hack your private key, it will take an insane amount of time and resource if it is ever possible to hack your private key! You must have made a mistake by either clicking a phishing site where you lodge in your details or your system got hacked!

there is no way to secure MEW already known to private key by others, the solution is to create a new wallet and do not let it happen again, I suggest the private key is stored in a different folder or file with the address to minimize events like this.

im sorry to hear mate, but the best way you can do right now if there are still coins in your wallet is to transfer all of that in a new MEW wallet, hackers are already in control of your wallet. create a new wallet and be sure always that no one else can steal it from you. install an metamask for additional security, careful opening some site especially untrusted sites. and lastly make sure that you keep your private key on a aafe place.

I am sad for what you encountered, yet it is surely not one of the general population who have stolen from you, this is the thing that occurred between the abundance bunter, there are some dianta the individuals who simply need to benefit in the wrong way, yet this is an incredible exercise for you will later when you fill an abundance shape to be watchful when filling the information, keep your swallow enter in somewhere else, so when you duplicate backdrop amlamat you are not wrong to enter, ideally this could be your proposal.

No it is not actually controlled by the hackers the reason why some people can easily get or access your account because your private key is not secured properly. The first thing you should do in creating your ether wallet is make sure that you are the only one who knows your private key because it is the very important thing in your ether wallet account . Second there are some sites that are pretending that you just need to copy and paste you wallet address to give you and transfer free tokens or what so ever in your account there are programs created by the hackers that when you paste your wallet address it will replace the address that you copied and they will easily get your master pass for you password manager. Beware of those sites to prevent your wallet to be hacked. And the last thing you should do you is to create another wallet because the hacker has the power to control your wallet because the hackers have your private key. Hope that this tips will help to you to have idea how to keep properly your ether wallet. Thank you!

I've just lost my token in the myetherwallet.
For some reason hackers can break into my wallet.
Maybe I was discovered when joining the airdrop. This is terrible for me, and now I have created a new wallet address