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Hi Friends..


Yesterday, i got hacked on ,21st of May 2021, and is looking for anyone who can do something to get my funds back..

I actually installed a software, which started to blimp as a virus by my antivirus so i uninstalled it and after some time went to sleep.

So what happened is that, whoever got access to my computer through somekind of trojan, moved my HEX tokens worth 320usd and also my AWC tokens 723 which worth about 1100 usd. Details as under

1. HEX Tokens
my Ether wallet : 0x543ea9e8bbe1a2bbf0dceefd6783abf708789dde
Hackers wallet : 0x74de5d4fcbf63e00296fd95d33236b9794016631

Hash: 0xc756b603ab4797ac79b97c7d8e304a07aa90caab3276044b7784f8f44c481ea3

Tokens moved : 6849.7 HEX
Worth : 330 USD

2. AWC Tokens:

my wallet : 0xD96ED1c2CBD36630961606fd57c73c2d7817c68c
Hackers wallet : 0x0fa5e40d423b7b30edd99fc56520eadb552459d8

Hash : 0x5d6ece4d505331177dea8d6ffebd330fc6a9842b3c08fee1a51e9b360ecf4576

Tokens moved : 723 AWC
Worth : 723 x 1.46 = 1055 USD

There was a software by the name of Adobe acrobat reader of 13.2 GB, which somehow got installed automatically yesterday and i think it was this software which was not really acrobat as acrobat reader is not of 13.2 GB and also i never installed acrobat yesterday..

I haved checked his wallet address on etherscan and it shows that that address of the hacker is draining alot of wallets every second.

I don't know what to do, but thought that someone here may just b able to take out this hacker... Also i would like to know if there is anything i can do to secure my ether wallet as i cant change the keys on ethere and also the AWC wallet secure keys cant b changed..

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Thank you for warning. I think now there is no any way to recover your money back . I am feeling very sad for you.
Is there anyway to report this hacker? If anybody know please tell us we all will report his wallet.

As long as funds have moved out of your wallet and already confirmed in the blockchain, there is really nothing can be done to recover those funds, all you can do now is to secure your wallet or just delete that wallet and make a new wallet which will have a different private key, cus for the hacker to be able to move your funds, he must have gotten hold of your private keys and he might just be sitting there, waiting for your to send more funds to that wallet for him to steal, so just dump those wallets that's been hacked and make a new one, this time, try making a wallet on your mobile phone is you can't afford offline wallets like ledger and the rest, mobile wallets are more secure than pc wallets as pcs are more prone to virus and Trojan attacks. So sorry for your lost funds and also thank you too for warning others here.

Nothing can be done there. Happened to me too couple of years ago. Try not to be too sad about it and be more aware next time... Maybe using Linux for crypto would be better. I have double boot on my laptop since then.

Ledger Nano S costs 59 euros
https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s
This wallet will be enough for you for a few coins so as not to reinstall applications on the wallet, but better buy a Ledger Nano X.
I sympathize with you, but $ 1385 is not a big price to pay for a good lesson.
This wallet will be enough for you for a few coins so as not to reinstall applications on the wallet, but better buy a Ledger Nano X.
I sympathize with you, but $ 1,385 is not a big price to pay for a good lesson.
Software wallets are highly unreliable.

Thank you for warning us and sorry for nothing we can do. You could earn more money than you lost, take an experience for your future steps. If you have another wallet, then you shouldn't open it. Maybe you were visiting a phishing site, but you aren't safe anymore even if you move ETH from your wallet.

It would be nice to have more information from you.

For example, what system did you use, what antiviruses and similar programs were installed on it.

It would also be nice to see a log of actions performed on the device.

The only way for you to change your wallet. The hacker already owned your key and it's the worst thing to use again.
We can do nothing for your money consider the blockchain transaction was permanent as long as the tx already confirmed and it's irreversible. It seems like that the hacker was putting keylogger or malware.

If you got hacked there's no way to get the coins back, you have read about exchange hacking and it took them a lot of time to recover the funds and sometimes they cannot get all of them back and they spend thousands of dollars to trace the hackers, in your case I don't think you can do it, you'll have to spend thousands of dollars to get it back, in the first place where you got that software for awareness.

There’s nothing you can do to recover your funds, don’t use that compromised wallet anymore and create a new one. This will serve you a lesson that not to trust anything you download online and be responsible in using the internet. Conduct a regular security routine on your device to avoid these kind of unfortunate events in the future.

There are nothing to do, because the token moved to other address. We should be learn from this, never click on the unknown website or install unknown software. Should be our device always uses premium anti virus, and only login to personal wallet by use clean device. And only login in to it if we want to send tokens/coins to other address, because if we want to see the balance or want to send crypto to that wallet , not necesary to log in.

Its my personal laptop with windows 10 on it and using the windows antivirus. no other antivirus or special antivirus installed.


There is one thing more and that is, i was using Atomic wallet and it was password protected, and i didn't open the wallet for a few days but still he the software automatically sent the funds to him.
I am also receiving virus notification as : Trojan:Win32/Tnega!ml

So we cannot trust pre-installed antivirus from Windows, you are keeping your coins on your desktop why have you not think of installing at least one reputable and effective anti-virus and anti-malware it will not even cost you hundreds of dollars.
The malware has a key logger it is able to transmit what you are typing on the keyboard, it's a serious mistake and everyone should take heed of this one.

Sorry for your lost. Hackers are able to exploit any weakness in your system to steal coins and just to make hacking challenges a bit  harder Etherscan has implemented Taint Inference Analysis Engine (https://info.etherscan.com/ethprotect/) to  detect tokens  that originated from hacking events. You may address your issue to Etherscan team via this form (https://etherscan.io/contactus). This might help " to take out this hacker."

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do. I think a lot of people have encountered hackers, I'm one of them, and it has taught me to take information security more seriously on my computer
. I'm sorry you lost money because I was in your place and I know how it is ..... This situation will be a lesson for you.

it's too late to do anything now, because it's already recorded on the blockchain and transactions made will also be considered legal so it's very difficult to return your lost funds.
I am sorry for your incident, I hope you get even more and hopefully this will be a lesson for you and for me to be more careful in doing something because things like this are stalking us a lot because fraudsters and thieves like this will continue to do things the same until they get caught.

You are probably not going to like the answer the community is going to give you but it is one you most likely already know, there is no way to get your coins back, once those coins leave your wallet the coins no longer belong to you, it is obvious those are your coins from the moral point of view but now the hacker got possession of those coins and he can do whatever he wants with them, it seems you are using windows, there is no way to secure it no matter what you do so you either buy a hardware wallet or use Linux.

Sorry for your loss, but without linking to the file or to the site, are you comfortable to reveal what you were downloading and was it an official site or any known site that we should be aware of? Also did you find that from google or got link from somewhere else?

Because i don't think that you are the first or the last one downloading that.

Probably a malfunction on software lead to the breach of personal data, next time be careful before downloading the files from third-party websites. Especially for crypto users, using extra security software is essential because hackers can choose the target group with data analysis. Btw, forget about the hacked coins which impossible to recover unless you know the hackers.

Exactly what I was going to suggest before reading your post. Just avoid downloading any kind of unknown software and you are good to go. Hackers know and look for the weak spots which can be anything. No need to overthink it, everything is simple as explained.

I was actually searching for a software named "Visual CertExam Designer". In that i found a link and downloaded a zip file that was password protected. And once i unzipped it using the given password, then i installed it and as i installed it, i got the virus notification. I then uninstalled the software and thought that everything is fine. But next day i realized that there was 13.2 gb software by the name of Acrobat reader was installed at the same time when this event took place. and i think that was the software that got it done.

That makes sense, my recommendation is that you completely wipe out your hard drive, I hope that you already have your seed words and your private keys in other devices, you should never have your wallets in the computer that you use for your everyday activities because something like this can happen to you, if you do not really have any option but to use that kind of software and download stuff online then get a hardware wallet and forget about those kind of problems.

Most of time hackers attack from cracking files. If you install any cracked file, I think that's your big mistake. Cause, cracked file can be a trap of hacker. And now you haven’t any way to get back your money. Ethereum is decentralized and nobody can help you.

Personally, Thank you for warn us. We can be more careful from this lisone. I can understand your present situation.

I feel sorry for my friend, but I don't think it can be undone. because it is already recorded and it is legal even though it was not sent by you but it already has a transaction hash and it is already considered valid. maybe all you have to do now is report the address and be more careful in doing something because these kinds of things (scammers & thieves) will continue to find loopholes in performing their actions, lest we be careless and neglect the safety of our wallets.
may this be a lesson for you and a knowledge for all of us so that such incidents do not happen again

I am very sorry to hear that, but thank you for sharing important information like this, so that we can be careful and things like that don't happen to us. I think there is no way to recover a hacked wallet, you have to make this an important experience, so that it doesn't happen again

When you install pirated apps or click links from unkknown sources then these things can happen that is why being secure on the internet is a real task for everyone. You lost our funds and many people are losing as well for such traps.

You should reinstall your OS and don't install any applications from pirated sites, and better to have an anti virus which may saves our from trojeans, trackers, etc.

Sorry to say but you cant really turn those funds back and no one can really help you since crypto transactions are irreversible which means getting those coins are impossible
unless if the hacker itself would return it to you which is impossible to happen.

This is why we should really be keen on downloading things online because we dont know if we do download a malware which would cause for our important informations
stored on our pc would get compromised.

One thing you can do is to reformat and make out new wallet then start  all over again and be sure to learn up things this time.

First of all if got hacked and your fund are stolen, you can not do anything. No one can reverse the transaction. The thing you may do is report the wallet as a scam or hacked fund on etherscan ( but this can also be resolve by hacker with swaping your token on uniswap ). So basicly if your PC got compromished install antivirus and scan all. You can not judge that the acrobat reader doing it. Scan with keyloger scanner too.

For other : dont ever open the strange link, and never fill in the form if it asked your phase prase wallet.

We know that an antivirus is in many circumstances useless, it is only going to detect a menace once it has been around for some time stealing the funds of other users, so we need to exercise extreme caution when it comes to the security of our coins, whatever we install needs to always be verified and downloaded only from the official sources and even that is not enough so it is better to switch to an OS that is more secure like one of the many versions of Linux.

things like this keep happening very often, but unfortunately because there is no way to restore your hacked wallet, or return your coins that have switched wallets, that is also impossible. the only thing you can take is experience, so always be careful and things like this don't happen again

I myself have experienced by losing an unibright token and also a nugget token,at that time only those two tokens had a price,and I myself couldn't do anything, because I didn't know how to do it because my private key wallet was automatically already in other people's hands too..
My advice is to move some of the remaining assets in your new wallet because that's the only method and lost tokens won't come back..