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When you don't expose your private keys, there is no way that anyone can know your private keys because it is unique. The advise is never allow anyone to see your private key, it is when your private key is known that your wallet can be compromised.

You shouldn't dare put your private keys on any site or save it online, or else your will loss your coins. So it is very difficult to know anyone private keys, and very hard to generate the same private keys to different wallet. Your private key is the password to your output locked in your bitcoin address , and anyone that have access to it will steal your coins.

Do not use close source wallet. Do not use Javascript to generate your seed phrase and private key. Do not use a brain wallet. Avoid those with insecure means of generating seed phrase like Libbitcoin explorer. These are all insecure means of generating seed phrase and private keys.

Use a good software to generate your seed phrase and private key. Go for reputed wallets like Sparrow, Electrum, Trezor etc. There are many open source wallets for bitcoin that are reputed that you can go for.

If you generated your seed phrase and private keys securely and safely on a safe device like airgapped devices, the 128 bits of security that bitcoin has is still enough against brute force attack.

If you keep posting about this hundred times it doesn't change anything, you are the one that should first watch what you're doing that are unhealthy for the safety of your wallet security, an average user who does not engage doing the same thing you does have nothing to worry about because they are deliberate with the way they handles their wallet keys, so here's my advise for you to take note.

1. avoid visiting unsolicited sites
2. find a secured means for storing your private keys
3. avoid centralized institutions offers on securing wallets
4. Don't make use of a close source wallet
5. learn more on security and privacy practice

This post is not about private key exposing. Its about knowing some secret which no body knows.
This post talks about,
While doing Google search with any random private keys.  It shows up only Alamy website Images at Images section. Why?
 
What is the connection between Google, Alamy site, and privatekeys of any Cryptocurrency? Why it shows such result?

When we do Google search using terms like  " Online sale" Google showsup Online selling website's like amazon etc. Because this websites embed online sale related key words at their sites and therefre Google algorithm gives such results.

In case of privatekey: Google search When we do Google search using " any crypto private keys" it shows up alamy sites. Why?
Does it means all private key of all cryptocurrency is embed at this site?

I replied to a similar thread of yours yesterday which is why I will not be thorough as I was then here again, and I hope this is not for some kind of ulterior motives cleverly crafted.

Well, I will not say that private keys can't be compromised, but what I know and am sure of is that when you use the right wallet and you are not careless about it, then you have nothing to worry about. By saying the "right wallet," I mean that those that are self-custody wallets with open sources. They are just the best and if anything fishy is going on with them, developers would have known and exposed such. These developers also have their millions of dollars worth of assets in wallets, so they can't be silly to let it go like that.

Also, be aware of all those websites that are telling you nonsense or those that are saying you should connect your wallets or type some important key codes. You are compromising your wallets by yourself in this case.

Sharing private keys publicly is risky, even if they're empty. Private keys should be kept secret for security and for open-source wallets and spend some time learning about security and privacy. Taking these steps means you're in control and can minimize the risks to your cryptocurrency holdings

Looks like a clickbait article to your medium, seo expert? and then talk about Bitcoin?

Hmm, in any case as what others have said, maybe when you create your Bitcoin address your private key was exposed. We don't know how you create your address though, but you might have to look at it.

And I'm sorry but I have to disagree Alamy or whatever image site it is, it has nothing to do with Bitcoin or your address or your private key.

Because if you google any random bunch of text and then click on images you wind up with a bunch of images.
That's just the way it works.

As for Alamy they have the rights to a lot (read billions) of images so some are going to wind up there.

It's a nothingburger.

-Dave

Before you click on the image on search results, try to highlight it to see the link preview. You will find it is longer than the actual link and some characters may match the privkey fragment you sent with Alamy's search indexes. In addition, browser cookies also affect search results.
I think google's search parameter is always being improved to as much as possible not show this kind of message "didn't match any documents" anymore. cmiiw

Let me get this right, you search for your private key and you find it along with corresponding addresses and public keys, right?  :D
Now go ahead and this time search for an address only to see if any site can give you the private key, not just any address, search for one that only you know the private key. Of course when you reveal the private key, you get all sorts of images for it.

And again as I posted in another one of the OP FUD creators posts.
If you google search for any random text and then click on images you get a ton of images. Does not matter what you put in.

It's just the OP scammer click bait posting to get clicks.

Ignore it and move on.

-Dave

I tried a Google search and then checked the "images section" in the search result. I didn't find anything strange as you say. I didn't even find "Alamy" in my search results. It may appear in your search results depending on your cache, location, or search history maintained by Google.

This does not make sense at all. If you created your private key in a secure way and did not share it with anyone, no one will be able to know it and it will not appear in any Google search engine or any other. What you are saying is very strange.

Of course when you search a private key, there are sites that would generate the corresponding addresses on the fly and show you the results, you should never "search" for "your" private keys. They are private, but by all means, search for addresses all you want.

That thing that OP has done is just to try and prove his point so of course, I think that it's a common sense that this is the case for most people. And to OP, I think that it's in your best interest if you back up this claim with some data and that this is a real thing, there's no way that it's true and no programmer has stumbled upon this problem or is trying to solve it because this is a major breach in the security of bitcoin if this is true so maybe with those data and backing from developers, people will probably start believing you but until then, everyone's skeptical about this.

he just found a hex key image. thats all. nothing else.
has nothing to do with the wallet itself.

Considering the amount of information that exists on the Internet.  I would believe it is almost impossible to create a random string of text of a few dozen characters that does not exist embedded in some code or in plain text on a random website already.  More over.  Last time I used Google for such searches I realized many of the results are even unrelated to the strings of text I searched.  I believe Google uses an algorithm that looks up things that LOOK similar to the search results you requested too.

Knowing the above.  It is safe to assume all and every password we have ever used has been leaked on the Internet and is compromised.  This does not make it compromised and insecure.

But why do you only point to Alamy, there are lots of images that appear in the result. There's facebook, X, github, and Pinterest and there's even tiktok. Does it mean those keys are also on those websites?

I doubt there is truth to this post. I have kept my private key somewhere safe, I created a wallet that has never been used but only deposit transactions I'm sure there will be nothing of public key that is exposed by it. How will the wallet keys be exposed with that security in mind?  This is just something for that meduim page, fud for the crypto holders.

i dont get a single alamy site. it depends on your location

I don't know why, but I can't browse Alamy's site. Even I tried on Tor to check if I had an IP issue. So I can't check live what exactly is going on and how. But I don't believe private keys are compromised anyway because they aren't stored online. The site may generate an image based on your search. Or the search engine will show you that it partially matches your search. This isn't enough to explain why all the private keys are compromised; otherwise, funds would be stolen. But we haven't heard of any cases where someone stole funds from the wallet by getting private keys from Alamy sites or by random check. 

Is it actually just a bluff or FUD if you search it using the private key he posted above it does show only 3 sites in my case including this thread since the method requires you to go to images you can see under images you can find Alamy accessing it with or without VPN it does not work in my case.
What I see here he might be just want to get impressions on his images since you can sell images on that site and maybe he is trying to bring people there to get impressions and get buyers.

How come such FUD always shows up right before the final stage of the bull market? OMG, all private keys are compromised! That's scary, sell all your coins now!  ;D

Just admit it: you didn't buy enough Bitcoin during the bear market?  ;D

You know the way Google search works is that it searches the internet for what you input and if it doesn’t find it, it shows result for something similar. I know you’d ask me how those images are similar, but I think that maybe the website is full of alpha-numerals so it always finds something that matches. This is just my theory before any research (I only skimmed through the article), but I am super sure that what you think isn’t what is happening.

First , you must understand that Google search works by gathering related content to you from different sources. If your private keys have been used somewhere else and it is possible to rrlafe it their, then the web can pop up, sometimes, the website has nothing to do with the web address .  Since google can not find actual or correct answer to your search term, related content will be displayed. So seeing a different website from what you expect may not necessarily mean it is connected to the website.

If you will be sure , type any combination of alphanumeric and search, you will get thesame result.

I don't and have never heard of the possibility of someone's private keys to be compromised without them leaking some informations or sharing it, neither have I heard any reports of this almy site generating peoples private keys, if private keys can be compromised or start getting compromised, then the issue would be from the blockcjain and developers for keeping room for such error, and what would be the need of the so called self-custody when we can keep our private keys from beign hacked by a third party and we played no part in it.

I Don't really understand what's going on and why you posted your private keys as prove but I think if yours was compromised then you must have mistakenly installed a spyware on your device and we know how skyward works it reveals your details to the attakers, many almy is just a storage for all the compromised private keys and wallets 🤷‍♂️.

I don't think there's a relation to that because if there is, then private keys or wallets are already compromised and being dried by those hackers. Notice that whenever you search for a private key in Google, it will show almost the same pattern because all private keys have the same pattern, so expect that you will always see that webiste, but I don't think there is a relevance to wallets or private keys being compromised. I think before you throw some news or blame, you should also have solid proof about your claims because you might ruin a business name. If you are not trusting private keys, then don't store your assets on them; instead, find more secured wallets that will give you different security aside from private keys. As an IT person, I don't think that this claim is true. If it were true, then all wallets with private keys should have been compromised by now.

If private keys can easily be compromised, all bitcoins have ever been mined by miners, stored by Bitcoin holders will be moved to addresses for the attackers.

So far, 15 years since 2009, nothing like this ever happened and no report of lost/ stolen bitcoins like this. The conspiracy theory is simply stupid and non sense without anything solidly back this theory.

There are 2^256 private keys while there are 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the universe. Finding a Bitcoin private key by brute-force procedure is impossible.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key
https://btcdirect.eu/en-eu/what-is-a-private-key
https://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms-in-the-universe/