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Has anyone here been hacked and if so, how? We should make sure that we share our stories of being hacked, even if they are painful,  to ensure that people do not repeat other people's mistakes.

Most hacked bitcoiner cause of using malware/phishing wallet/software/website, some of them while using electrum and got phished by installing from malicious server the prompts as a notification. While some of them while using exchanges that were hacked.

The lesson is always verify the source/signature of every wallet you want to install on your device. And don't ever put your bitcoin on exchanges for a very long time or as an alternative for wallet.

Lack of knowledge is the reason why crypto enthusiasts keep losing their crypto-asset or getting hacked. And sometimes greediness is also a reason why people get hacked, joining airdrop or the recent hacks just like a HIYP that promised you to have a double profit after a week or a month. But the fact, you are already prone to scams.

I suggest those newbies who want to own their own bitcoin is also to study how to store bitcoin, how to keep safe bitcoin and you will able to continue holding until you will get profit.

When you say you were hacked I assume you mean you were keeping your coins on a 3rd party platform like an exchange and they exit scammed. These 3rd parties keep your private keys and therefore have the ability to do what they want with it. As the pearl of wisdom goes “If you don’t own your keys, you don’t own your crypto”. To avoid this you should keep your bitcoin in cold storage.

Murat (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5203321.msg53137593#msg53137593) once shared a story about how his savings wallet was hacked when he kept his wallet private keys, passwords, etc online.


You may be right because there are many ways attacker can hack wallet but there are some Bitcoiners that have good knowledge and their wallet was been hacked. I believe avoiding human error 24/7 and never let physical untrusted people know you're a Bitcoin holder are the best way to secure a wallet.

As regards your topic title, I doubt there is any data of how may people lose their Bitcoins through hacks or some other form of compromise, but there's lots of information on what exposes you to such risks and how you can avoid them.
Security awareness is something every Bitcoin holder should have as you are responsible for your assets. There may be no way to be 100% secure, but there are steps that would reduce the risk of loss;

• Hold your Bitcoin in a wallet which you control the private key,
• Make backups for the private key in secure locations,
• Ideally, you should use a cold wallet, this could be a hardware wallet or a device which is disconnected from the internet permanently,
• Use privacy inclined services and try to remain as anonymous as possible (this could be done by using mixers, ad blockers, transacting through peer to peer platforms etc)
• Ignore unsolicited messages and mails and do do not click on any links included.
• Do not trust, verify. Websites can be compromised so always verify before taking any action.

The most common thing among the people who I see get hacked because of GREED. I see people sending referral links that have a "too good to be true" essence on to it, and upon researching for a little bit, it's already been reported that it's a scam, but it's still ongoing. People have the tendency to trade things like personal information, or worse, passphrases, that have their holdings on it. If someone is too susceptible to that type of thing, we would know what happens next.

I'm not sure about the frequency of getting hacked, for sure it's only a small fraction, but it still happens and we need to be vigilant about it.

People who are downloading any software without checking its legitimacy are the ones who are prone to malware attacks and getting hacked.

When you are a BTC holder, you should always consider having a high security in your device and when you are accessing platforms, you should check if it is safe to access. In my entire bitcoin investment, I'm not yet getting hacked because I'm aware of my own wallets and I always check them when I have some time.

Improving security of your bitcoins will make you comfortable so don't forget to to always check it.

Thank God my account has never been hacked. I'm very careful about the security of my account. Guys, be very cautious about the safety of your account, password and private keys!!!!!

I've seen some people share their stories about being hacked and, I really feel for them. Just so you know, hacking can't happen from a different way except your private keys or mnemonic phrase. Phishing is one of the most common ways that people's wallet are being hacked. And to avoid falling a victim, make sure that you trust the tabs that are opened on your browser, or the apps / softwares you install. Some of them have the ability to pry and steal your keys. Oh, and never store your assets on exchanges, cause if anything goes wrong on that exchange, your funds becomes vulnerable.

Ohh I was almost hacked...  :'( :'( But I reacted in time. Luckily it ended well, but after that incident, safety became the most important thing to me.

There's different types of situations on how people get hacked. Some just get simply scammed, while some store their coins in an online wallet/exchange, and well, visited a phishing site letting hackers enter their pc and basically access all sorts of data stored in there, which is basically how they get ahold of your funds. I actually haven't heard much of any hacks of the latter(but it does happen), but the former is well known tbh. There are countless victims out there since most people are prone to be fooled by the sound of easy making money schemes.  Really, it's rather easy not to get hacked tbh, though there may be some funds needed to guarantee it to the max. Just don't visit any suspicious sites, use a hardware wallet, don't believe others nonchalantly, and DYOR.

So far my bitcoin account were not yet compromised with regards to privacy and undisclosed information. I'm making sure that the site I am visiting is not of a phishing site to avoid stealing of information. The most thing I am avoiding is those mobile apps that pertains to wallets and bitcoin earning sites because mostly of those were scam or not legitimate.

The only time I've gotten "hacked" was when my Bittrex account got compromised years ago. Attacker couldn't withdraw any BTC so they made a purchase on some ~0 volume coin. My guess is attacker placed a limit-sell order from their account at an exorbitant price and used my account to fill the order, leaving me with a bajillion shitcoins and them taking away my BTC. Still unsure whether it was done through password or API key. I realized it weeks after the fact and I didn't pursue it much after support told me "sorry can't help".

Lesson learned for life though. Never storing BTC on any exchanges. 2FA is a must, and no password re-use among different websites/exchanges.

This makes me wonder what the thought process of scammers/hackers who stole years ago is like now that BTC is ~$40k. Do they ever go "I stole x btc years ago, damn, now it's worth xxxxx. I should give it back". Do they feel guilty? Try to get back in touch with people who they stole from?

Many crypto users have been hacked, it’s just a matter of the way it happened. The most common way is through phishing, whether it is an exchange/online wallet or fake pages for desktop/mobile wallets. A hacker uses several approaches to a potential victim, sending a phishing link via email or some social network, or advertising through Google AdWords, which results in fake pages appearing at the top of the search for certain keywords.

I believe that there are many more who have become victims and have not publicly admitted it, as opposed to those who publicly seek help online or report it to the police. The reason for this is very simple, it is not easy to admit that you have become a victim of fraud, especially if it happened in a very naive way that could have been easily prevented.

The solution is pretty simple, never click on links in your email asking you to log in to a crypto exchange, or download a new wallet because the old one has some critical vulnerability. Save the link of a legitimate page in browser bookmarks and use it always, and when you search for something through the search engine always have AdBlock turned on which will block all ads from Google.

There would be almost zero chance of losing any funds in your wallet if you haven't made a mistake along the way and maybe enter your private key in a non-official wallet website(phishing website) or installed a non-official wallet, for almost any wallet there are tons of phishing websites and fake apps and any less experienced crypto user could be a victim of such attempts.

So just because many use the term "Hacked" it doesn't mean the blockchain and the network of that coin was somehow compromised and that's how they got to user wallets, and in 99% of the time it only means the users was simply not careful and someone somehow got access to their private key either by phishing websites/apps or any other possible way.

I am interested to know, how did you stop the hack?

Most of the users whose bitcoin wallet has been hacked are due to their negligence because we need to take proper precautions like avoid unofficial wallets, check the website URL link before entering your private keys to ensure its the same URL and MEW shows that notification as an awareness and users should avoid downloading malicious softwares. I have never seen any account getting hacked after taking precautions.

Not so often, and when it happens, usually the problem is in people, not the bitcoin itself.

People are using weak passwords, clicking on phishing links, downloading phishing wallets, etc. Hackers are getting smarter and trying new stuff every day.

I don't know how often people get hacked, I can speak for myself only. I've been hacked once few years ago. First, my Bitcointalk account got hacked, but I was able to get it back later with help of admin. Later, they hacked my Bittrex account, but fortunately weren't able to withdraw funds. There was SMS 2FA on withdrawals enabled.
I still don't know where exactly I made mistake, but I believe that my email got compromised first. Back then I thought that I'm not stupid and it won't happen for me, I didn't followed even basic things to protect my accounts and crypto. But it will happen for you if will be not careful enough. These tips to protect your accounts aren't made without reason. So, things like 2FA, strong passwords and other things is must have.
Yeah, it's not that easy to admit in public that you made mistake and got hacked. Some people don't want to say that because they are afraid to look stupid. Probably I also wouldn't admit if would be hacked in stupid way, like clicking phishing link in email or something similar.

I never got hacked, but I once had a very close experience. I urgently needed Photoshop for some task, so I went to Piratebay and downloaded the first result and installed it. My PC was instantly infected with hundreds of samples of malware, so I immediately turned it off, formatted the disk and installed a fresh OS. Luckily my coins weren't stolen and none of my accounts were hacked. One of the first things I did after installing a new OS is migrating all my coins to a new wallet. Since then I stopped not only pirating software, but also installing any software unless absolutely necessary, and I always look for an open source option with good reputation, and so far I was never hacked.

Most of the people who get hacked are those who mostly don't know device security, hacking comes from. malware and that malware are mostly cams from downloading software or application specifically those fakes made by hackers. You may asp get hacked by clicking a link sent to you by a stranger and putting some of your personal information. You won't get hacked if you have good knowledge, it is all about knowledge.

As far as I remember, I only experienced my BTC wallet hacking once. At that time, I wasn't careful and I clicked a phishing link, which resulted
in hackers being able to access my BTC wallet. Fortunately, at that time I didn't store large amounts of BTC in that wallet. So the amount of loss
that I experienced was not that big.

This has been an unforgettable experience for me, so lessons can be learned from my bad incident. Always be careful when clicking a link, pay
close attention to the address of the link that is being accessed according to what we are going to aim for. And avoid clicking on unknown links.

Way back before I've been hack by an hacker in which he got the private keys on my blockchain and get my assets. This happens when I accidentally open a blockchain into a unsecured website, I've just realized that it is a phishing website because although the platform and the UI of the website was quite similar to the original blockchain yet there are some missing details on it, but still I've login my account there and viola after few more days I can't open my real blockchain account. Better if we will be always careful on websites that we are browsing because maybe that website is unsecured website and a phishing websites.

Very often. People always seems to fall for phishing scams, likely due to the fact that Google doesn't really care about the phishing reports as well and they run rampant at the ad slot in the searches. 2FA can only do so much to protect you but won't be able to do much against the user's incompetence. It's usually only used to protect the user from getting hacked from leaked passwords or from unauthorized logins only. Malwares can target the more complacent users and be able to trick more with well scripted malware. If you take precautions to only download from the websites that you trust, you shouldn't be facing any problems.

My wallet was never hacked but I experience some of my accounts get hacked in the past but luckily it's not my wallet or any funds related account.

Most of the common ways were through emails like for example you get a receiving an email from your bank which is not really your bank telling that you have 0 balance already, or getting a brand deal email where they require you to download a file that runs a script or has malware in it. You can't really protect yourself 100% from hacks since there is no such thing as being 100% hack-proof in the cyberworld, it could happen or not happened to you as well but it's always better to be safe than sorry just like everyone says. I already received a lot of emails from brand deals from my photography email wanting a deal or something that's obviously malware or phising stuff.

These are some tips that you could do to lessen the chance of getting hack:

-Think before you click, always be careful of clicking a suspicious link
-Use a strong password, use the different passwords in different accounts, you could use a password manager to help you manage many passwords.
-use 2FA authentication, hackers might get access to your account but if you enable this it might help to avoid the hacker accessing your account.
-Only download from trusted sources, since this is where most of the virus and malware came from.
-Do not connect to an untrusted network or wifi, you could use VPN if you really need to.

To be honest, I never experienced my funds getting hacked, and I don't want to experience it. It is why I always used a strong password and 2FA on my accounts, and I am cautious upon clicking on unnecessary links, emails, personal messages, etc. People get hacked very often because there are still people who still fall for money laundering, phishing, and other scams.

I read about one today it was the personal email and password that was hacked yet but the person was afraid of the hackers won't get to the bitcoin account. From my perspective, I think one needs second backing for any account you are into like 2FA for Binance and sort

Most cases I have read and encountered from relatives and close friends getting hacked out of their Bitcoin are due to carelessness or irresponsibility on handling their accounts or storage where they kept their Bitcoins because some intruder have make way out of their notice to get into their accounts obviously to get rid of their Bitcoin and make it their own. There are cases that they have been get into a link or strange email redirecting them into some strange site or showing strange message and out of their notice their information have been already exposed to hackers and they have been easily jump into necessary data needed to hack their accounts. Most of those have happened because of ignorance since that just so happen when they are still starting their Bitcoin journey. So beware and keep yourself aware of such schemes.

I think it's like that with most robberies...someone close knows about the "stash", share it with right people and there you go! We can assume it's the same with Bitcoins now, someone close who is desperate for money will tip your wallet, it's valuable like anything else, with one great advantage, you can sell them easier than some other goods!
Not sure about how often people get hacked, but somehow I am sure a lot less than the ones who get scammed on some "regular online way"! Wrong investments in something that doesn't worth, doublers, online miners, scam casinos, ICO's, IEO's.... you just name it!

The issue of security has been a fundamental one for bitcoin since its development. On one hand, bitcoin itself is very difficult to hack, and that is largely due to the blockchain technology which supports it. As blockchain is constantly being reviewed by bitcoin users, hacks are unlikely.

i almost got hack , it was one of my crypto faucet account but lucky that the faucet site that i use have enabled a 2fa like on my email but i didnt enable any 2fa on my self . the hacker didnt succesfuly logged on on my account because it needs an email confirmation and the hacker dont have an access to my email .

i dont know if how he know my password but i maybe got phished before that i didnt notice because i dont bookmark the faucet site  .my advice is always bookmark websites after validating that they are the original and always check the spelling of what you are visting . 2fa's are important , i almost forgot

My blockchain wallet was hacked once, and all my BTC (which I collected from the event) was sent to another wallet belonging to that da*n hacker. I think the hacker started by hacking my email, somehow he could access my email, even though I already added 2fa. I know maybe I am careless, at first I was suspicious why I often get lots of notifications about airdrops, so I ignored it and all the incoming message notifications, maybe that's what hackers used to disguise email notification access from other devices.

It was truly a very rewarding, though painful experience. Since then I have been very cautious in this ecosystem, choosing a more secure wallet and managing primary and secondary e-mails. hopefully, this can be a lesson for others too, by separating the main email and the second email for other needs.

Recently one of my friends got hacked by lazy hackers ;D He's been on vacation and his account on the exchange was hacked. I called these hackers lazy because they've been waiting for 3 days until they stole all bitcoins stored on balance. Actually, it's my friend's own fault because he had a low level of security but there is still a question where are the security services of platforms?

I want to ask about how can someone hack myetherwallet account ?. previously in 2020 I experienced a hack where at that time I had saved the file on the Flashdisk. and still experience theft. how sophisticated they are to be able to do the hack. 2x I got hacked and made me finally sell my computer to buy a new one. I suspect my computer has a keylogger implanted

I have never been hacked (and I hope it never happened) I do have a close relatives who got hacked and all her funds where transferred out of her wallet,  and what makes it worse was I introduce her to crypto, I felt really bad for what happened and try to help and assist her the best way I could,
After that experience she lost interest and I just let it be, didn't want to convince her again,  even though I tried teaching her how to keep her keys safe but some how hackers was able to get to her, still can't understand how they did it.

I've never been hacked and I don't think that it happens often. You have to distinguish between being hacked on your own machine and your online account on some exchange.

The first case happens maybe to 0.1% of bitcoin users and only because they have no security on their machines. Many people don't even set up wifi passwords so it's a normal thing that they get hacked but still rare among bitcoin users. Some people download trojans, get them through spam emails and such.

The second case when your account gets hacked is much more common. I know many people who lost money on exchanges.

never been hacked, but ive sure lost a fair amount of coin through my own stupidity. as in being too clever hiding or otherwise storing seeds/wallet files/paper wallets etc, poor backup strategies (not testing them, poor execution and or media fails). one tends to learn fast in such situations.

so being hacked is certainly something to be aware of and everyone who wants to be their own bank needs to get at least the basics down.

i highly suggest yubikeys for 2FA. SIM swaps, fishing emails, email account takeovers.. a yubikey will protect against much of that. and hardware wallet/paper wallet or properly airgapped computers are a must, as well as protecting their location and environment.

I do not get hacked so far, but I have the other bad experience before. My account can not access because the site is not online, and I got that experience early when I knew crypto. We already read about many accounts being hacked. Many of them are getting hacked because a little mistake such as do not activate the 2FA. It seems they do not care about their account and else. We can not feel 100% safety from hacker because they will search for a new target.

Honestly most of the hacking occurs because of phishing or data stealing. Those hackers always have creative way to snatch private key and most of the people who got phished are really reckless in using internet like downloading app randomly, using some kind of unknown wallet and submits their privkey but that's hacking that occurs around some individuals. If you're asking how often it occured, I'd say it's more frequent than people imagined but just underreported. Company or projects however usually have some kind of exploit within their sytsem that could let hacker access their funds. This happen not quite often but sometimes the media making us freaks out and thus it seems hacking activities within projects or company occurs more often.

Maybe the hacker have access to your clipboard history (when you do ctrl +c and ctrl +v) there's some history of chrome extension replacing address within clipboard history with the hackers' address aswell.

In 99% of the cases, simply enabling 2FA may help to prevent hacking attempts. But then if your computer is compromised (with keylogger or trojans), then even 2FA will be of limited use. In order to add an extra layer of security, you need to make sure that the email address and phone number that you are using for 2FA remains hidden from the public view. It will be better not to use this email id for any other purpose.

Yeah in my social Media account by a phishing Link , I am a noob in terms of Internet back then then and just entering and clicking every single links given .
then 1 time i have received a private message in which coming from a  friend so i am confident enough to check it.
But when i enter the link my account request of relogging since i thought  this is only a Internet or a apps issue i then Put up my details again ,
Then just a few minutes that Stupid hacker starts sending Links to all my friends and i They are good because they made changed all my security details and i did not recover the account up to now.

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So for all of us , Please be aware of checking the Site you will logging because hackers are good in disguising the site almost the same in what you are usually using.

Many people have been hacked and owing to the bad experiences associated with it, many won't bother sharing it with anyone because they don't want to remember how painful it was, it is only few that want to understand what really happened will open up, share their stories and learn, while others might just Google around to find solutions or ways to secure themselves. But however, the first way to secure your Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies is by storing it in a private wallet while keeping the private keys etc in a very secure place off your computer if possible. Also, if you are a trader, bookmark the website of the exchanges you trade with in order to be safe from phishing scam. Also, be careful of websites or any sort of giveaway that asks for your private keys, in fact be contented with what you have and be far away from giveaways, Ponzi schemes and so on, many of them can be from scammers who will infect your devices.

Yes... no one want to remember about their bad experiences in the cryptocurrency market. During my initial years, I was scammed a lot of times and I have hardly spoken about it to anyone. Fortunately, I have never become victim to wallet hacking and stealing of coins. But one of my friends got 90% of his coins stolen as a result of a wallet hack. It can be a harrowing experience, because cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible and once the coins are gone there is no way of getting them back.

I know someone who got his crypto wallet hacked through phishing sites.
If I remember it correctly my friend was a newbie at that time and really got interested with airdrops because of some of our friends earning from airdrops,
So he wants to join every airdrop that he could but one of those airdrop that he joined ask for his private key and as a newbie in cryptocurrency he thought that it was normal so he put it on the site,
And after a few hours his wallet has been clean out.

There are many stories spreading in this forum about such concern. Well, I did not experience, grateful in a way, being hacked. Your belongings, your responsibility. And if I'm not wrong, there are no cases wherein a 'direct hacking incident' was reported. Cases are usually mistakenly sharing their private keys, or other people had access to their files wherein important informations about wallets and accounts are stored. I mean, in this cases, we cannot hide the fact that those users are at fault in the first place, which should be enough for us to make extra caution on how things could be at risk if we won't be. There are no sectors wherein we could report such thing especially to those areas wherein this technology is lacking support, not sure in those regions wherein crypto is widely accepted.

Enabling 2FA can protect us from hacking. And if your computer is compromised with keylogger or trojans, I suggest you reinstall your computer, including reinstall 2FA and I am sure your computer will be clean. We can not tell the phone number and email address that we used to register for the exchange or the other important website because that can prevent us from the hacker. Maybe we can use the other disposable email or phone number that we do not use for anything else.

Most I feel are ppl making dumb mistakes and ppl forgetting their keys

Hacking is used a bit too often when people describe the events that took place. For instance, when an exchange they're using is broken into, to an average user it's a loss due to hacking, but when they install malware and that compromises their device, they'll also say they were hacked. Personally, I'd only say that i got hacked if someone was able to gain access to my device through sim spoofing, wifi packet sniffing or similar ways. I don't know anybody who really got hacked. Many people lost money on exchanges but it's not their security that was compromised so they did not really get hacked, but a third party they trusted.

Honestly, I couldn’t even dream that people were so naive until I became interested in cryptocurrencies. All those who have orientated themselves to this type of fraud can really easily steal real wealth in a second in a fairly easy way. Hardware wallet or airgapped wallet is really something that everyone should practice, but even a simple desktop wallet like Electrum on a computer that is properly protected and whose user knows where the danger is coming from is not overly risky.

I personally have never been hacked, but I also lost some altcoins due to ignorance and stupidity - which was not so bad because I learned very expensive lessons from cheap mistakes.

If you clicked on a suspicious link and it directs you to a website and thats all... you dont see any program being downloaded... is your computer still safe though?  I heard if you click on a link and download an exe file... well that can be malware/trojan etc.

I assume you mean like downloading apps on the android or app store right?  But even if you download those apps, would your phone or computer/tablet get infected though?  Say you use electrum and keep coins there.



Or what about if you use a password manager and type your seed there?  Thing is... if someone puts a keylogger in your computer, then you are screwed no matter what right?  Since anything you have on your computer even if its encrypted can be seen by the hacker since a keylogger was put?

Do you recall what phishing link this was?  Did you had to type anything into it or you just clicked on it and that was it?  Did you see any file being downloaded on your computer the moment you clicked on the link?


So it has to be a keylogger then right?  Because they basically see everytime you type in etc?


Always hear hacks come from ppl clicking on links... or downloading fake wallets then typing in the seed.  But did you type anything into the site?  So that site you visited... nothing really showed up and then you just closed the program like it was nothing?  Did you do virus/malware scan with your computer after clicking on the link?

Does clicking on phishing links enough for a hack?  Can a phishing link contain a keylogger/malware?  Or you still need to enter you seed etc in order for a hacker to get in?

Hacking incident is an endless thing that do happen not only into this market but in other markets or places as well that do involves money..
How people being hacked?

-Clicking out links and end up on getting some malware into their own pc
-Being phished when entering their credentials or keys on a fake website
-Fooled by people in terms of easy money like HYIP/PONZI's

People would only just realized when its too late. Mistakes are common but we can actually learn up without the need
of experiencing those.So be sensible towards your actions from time to time.

Pretty sure people get scammed or hacked off of their precious bitcoin investment everyday, just not that major to cause an uproar in the media, but still enough to put a lot of people into depression and in shambles. Just a couple of days ago a friend of mine got hacked out of his bitcoins, he wasn't able to get them back so we just decided to chip in some cash so he can restart his investment. Then we advised him to buy a cold wallet, and ensure that the keys are kept so he can access them whenever he needs to.

Hacks often happen when we aren't good with handling the wallet security. At some occasions we don't know how these hackers will breach into the wallet. Myself encountered with a fraud/cheating with one of the local exchanges. I was selling Bitcoin to a trader and receive fiat on my bank account. We agreed for specific price and he forwarded me with the transaction proof and requested for sending bitcoin. I believed and send him the bitcoin without checking my bank account. Further I tried to contact him, no response from his side. The transaction proof send by him was a fake one. It happened years back and I lost around 0.13btc which is has got a big value now.

im get hacked once on blockchain sites phising i got email that i get some satoshi from faucet sites i trust because im still new in crypto industry and voila next morning all of my bitcoin is gone  :-X

and beware to you guys

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Phising is everywhere never use same password your email and regular site

Stay safe

not hacked but did lose small # of coins after btc-e takedown

When i was a newbie, i used to join unlimited airdrops and giveaway because those were valuable at that day.but btc,eth some airdrop required to download their app, some wanted to sign up their website.there they take our information, even ask private key & said they use encrypted system.lots of people were unaware about the value of private key.so they gave their keys and get hacked.i was one of them.maybe those methods aren't useful nowadays but downloading wallet may caused hacked your devices

lol I don't know why people put their private key in exchange for a high chance worthless token. Most of the wallet tells us upon creation not to share the private key so basically, your whole wallet security depends on that private key. Ignorance is a poison especially when it comes to financial means so being knowledgeable about the thing you do is very important also being careful is part of it.

Luckily, I've never been hacked, but I take some precautions: all of my passwords and private key phrases are written down on a piece of paper (have many copies, but none of them are digital) and, just in case, I've memorized them all  :D Also, when withdrawing, exchanging I always double-check the address bar and the receiver's wallet address. Apart from that, I try to store my major savings on Electrum.

But I think there's another problem, that some bitcoin holders (not as few, as I thought) are currently facing - people really do forget/lose their passwords and wallet data, don't they? Take a look at that:


Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html

I was really stunned by this news, $140 billion is a lot of money, such a waste  :'(

Most of the time people end up losing through scams. These days hacks were quite low, and hackers target were upon the large scale business. We can hear the hacks of different exchanges cold storage. Scams are getting promoted easily and making big money out of the people who doesn't have the better understanding about the market and launch of new tokens in the market. Days back saw a project named bitron which is derived from bitcoin + tron = bitron. This is pure scam and people without much analysis invest into it.

This guy gets it, most of it happens on windows computers, I know of a guy who lost his on a slightly different way, he had a keylogger on his pc, poor dude was just importing his btc wallet, a few days after he fixes his pc's "slow downs" it was already too late, he lost 3 btc. This was about a month ago, so yeah, BE CAREFUL!

People try to get me send them btc aft on Twitter  :'(

When I used to keep my coins in Blockchain.info wallet, I came very close to getting hacked. There were multiple logins from unknown IPs, but fortunately for me, these people couldn't steal my transaction password. So although they got hold of the login password, they could not move the coins. The same happened when I used to keep the coins in my BTC-e wallet. Login was made by the criminal, but for moving the coins email confirmation was needed. The hacker failed to access my email. I immediately notified BTC-e and changed by password. All this happened 5-6 years back.

It's usually the casual user that get hacked as they don't seems to put a lot of importance to their password, use the same password for all their email and website accounts, downloading random thing on the internet, and they often click random links on the internet. If you are careful with what you do on the internet then you should be fine. My account never get hacked and i always use authenticator to be more secured.

Same here.. but exchanges going down can't be compared to someone hacking in to your cryptocurrency wallet and stealing the coins (although in most of the cases the reason for them closing down is getting hacked). I have lost my coins multiple times when exchanges went down. But then, that is one of the risks you take while keeping your coins in exchange wallets. I lost a good number of LTC and some of the other altcoins when Cryptopia went down in 2019. And I am still waiting for any reimbursement from the owners.

I've been a victim of hacking, their performance was disguised by web phishing. This is very worrying because it could target owners of large amounts of bitcoin in their wallets. So I think you have to be careful for anyone and they should be aware of phishing attacks at any time, always clean your browser and take good care of your computer.

Newbie don't know properly anything about crypto.so they often asking for help.and Its a common mistake for newbie that they give their private key to others for get help, or get some tokens and that is caused they got hacked.the same thing is also happened with me.i asked help from a person of my country, he helped me but later he ran away with my $5k worth btc and never contact with me again.  :'(

Yes newbies are the fist target to be scammed of course if you have a friend  you should teach them a proper way to store their monsy and coins i am sure they will get it. People get scammed if they will trust other person to take care for their funds if they will not do it if course there will be no scam i don't know what is the exact amount of them but out of 10 i think 2 is being scammed nowadays based on what i am seeing in social media posts.

Hacking someone will require great technical knowledge and ability which is why I believe being scammed is way more common, instead of trying to use technical knowledge to try to get to your coins what scammers do is to make all kind of promises about what they can achieve so you send your money to them, and as we know because of the nature of cryptocurrencies once those coins are outside of your wallet and you get a confirmation then it's over and there is no way to recover those coins.

However some of the most common ways in which people get hacked is by installing software from unofficial sources, then the hackers get your seed words or your private keys and they steal your coins, most of the hacks we see are a variation of that so as long as you only install software in your computer that comes from official sources you will be OK.

Hacks are common for people who store a lot of bitcoins in a wallet. Therefore, it is better to store  bitcoin not  only in one wallet,
if you have a lot of bitcoins. I think this will slightly avoid the risk of losing a lot of money, as it keeps it in some wallets. Imagine
if you put a bitcoin in one wallet and get hacked, you'll lose it all.

Actually I never face the situation but I always aware against it so as I'll find many source to avoid this thing. Especially in this forum, I'll bookmark if there is a solution or some strategy how to avoid being hacked and I'll do all these thing. Until now, I never download anything in my phone including in playstore. I have two phones and I just use one phone for saving my wallet and I don't have any application beside it. I always remember this term an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Some people does not with stands the pains because start narrating it will make them crazy, normally people are scamming people everyday, the let time I was scammed it was through investment platform which I don't really know that its was a ponzi scheme, so hacking required them alot of strategies to follow but scamming is easy access, because here people don't really complain of hacking of btc except your email details is issued out to person you know, I think hacking does not threads these period.

Using any exchange has risks of being hacked. Only good practices like 2fa, etc. can ensure the safety of funds being stolen. URL phishing sites are the most common threats to steal personal information from users.

Personally, I have my wallet password encrypted and USB drives. I'm old school and I believe all of your data doesn't have to be uploaded/saved in the cloud. My advice for fellow crypto holders, "Be unpredictable".

Having several wallets do not offers as much protection as you think, if all of those wallets are in the same device and the device is infected by a virus or a keylogger then you are going to lose your coins anyway, especially if the hacker is smart and takes his time with the hack.

The only way in which several wallets could help you is if you have them in different devices that way if one of them gets compromised then you do not lose the bitcoin in all your wallets, however if you are holding a lot of bitcoin then you are better off just buying a hardware wallet so you do not have to worry that much about being infected with a virus as for the most part you can still use your hardware wallet in a compromised device without having to worry about losing your coins.

hacks of btc is not seasonal or regional but with respect to the focus of the hacker, it happens on daily basis if i was to opinionate bt barely a few people come out to say that it has been hacjed as thye know not an laternatiive way to get it back. all should be careful ewith their assets.

The only reason i avoid any of these airdrops is simply because the task they give is not great if you are not aware of the team and downloading contents from a third party whom you do not trust is a big red flag as you never know what their motive is and hence i never downloaded anything from anyone nor i will sign up in their website let alone provide any private keys thinking i would get a few penny  ;D.

Pretty much every victim of bitcoin/cryptocurrency related hacks is due to this kind of attack but there is a small percentage that are caught not because they are going into this sites but they are a big mouth and they are arrogant which means that they blabber about how they are hodling bitcoin and how he/she will be rich and such which could be a good thing for attackers because they can just listen to this arrogant people brag about their bitcoin and the fine details without the effort of going for a full technical route.

i read a topic last time and its title is theres a time for everything where the sharer of the story got hack but he was a wise guy . the reason why i mention his story is because no matter how you warn others or learn on others story you will always have your own time if you havent yet but im not saying that we should stop learning , of course its always better if we have advanced learnings . stating how you got hack is fine but stating how any times you got hacked sounds painful for the poster and to the reader .

I've started in this world of bitcoin way back 2016 and I've never experienced getting my crypto wallet hacked. As long as you secure them properly like enabling 2fa, email verification, number otp and you don't share those details with anyone then there is a very low chance for you to be hacked. Also, be observant on the links you are clicking, don't fall for some cheap phishing attempts that say you will get a guaranteed amount if you will just provide what they want. This is the common cause of many people getting hacked of their wallets.

Even if you have multiple devices, it's still not a good idea. Some wallets are open-source, others are closed-source. Many have a bad reputation and history of scams or taking custody of user's funds, or not caring about the security of those funds. Jaxx, Freewallet, and some others spring to mind.

I have read some posts about users from Bitcointalk who asked whether it is wise to install several different software wallets on multiple devices that they own. Electrum on device #1, Wasabi on device #2, Coinomi on device #3... Most users agree that this is the wrong approach and shouldn't be done. It's better to have one good piece of software installed across multiple devices (Electrum or Wasabi) than putting parts of your coins in custodial wallets or centralized exchanges that can get hacked.   

I guess it happens almost everyday due to people being very lousy with their security. Most of them get phished or has their computer hijacked by malwares that they "install" without even noticing. Or they fall for stupid scams and ends up giving away their sensitive information that leads to their bitcoins getting hacked. Some loses their coins because they are stupid enough to hold their coin on an online wallet or exchange.
You just have to be smart and know what you are doing to avoid all these disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, some people don't even try.

Many people always experienced this one especially if they are not aware that the site is fake or have hidden malware or virus. So if you are visiting sites check first the URL if it's correct and legit, when installing software Scan it with VirusTotal. I guess some other people are evil and good at hacking and stealing.  Even a big exchange site is Prone to hacking. It is good to have a cold wallet like trezor. Or don't put all  your money in one wallet.

Hey, we somehow have the same story which happened in a BTC Talk account though in my case, it was a bit different.

On one ordinary day in January 2020, I opened Bitcointalk forum in my web browser chrome. Did daily check on my account like messages, replies from a thread. You know the usual stuff that one do in their profile. However on the lower part of my profile page. there goes a negative trust.
It was from tvplus006 that said that I was posting some doubler scam in Investor-based section here.
I was like surprised because I didn't post anything like that and I never once in my life even visit that section nor post something to it.
So like the usual, I asked help in a thread and pm'ed the one that gave me negative trust as well and referred the link to the thread that I created.
It turns out someone from "Turkey" logged into my account based on the IP logs provided here in the forum.

It went well in the end. I changed my password and log out because that would end every session of anyone logged into my account in different device. I cleaned my PC with an antivirus and some basic disk cleaning software, because I was really panicking that my sensitive info might get leaked or even used to a bad things.

Scanning and cleaning one's PC for malware/virus is often overlooked by many but it is indeed crucial. I learned my lesson that day to always clean my PC and log out every session not just in my Bitcointalk Forum account.

If anyone is curious on where is the thread that I made that day. Here it is : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217251.msg53594867#msg53594867
It might be over a year already, but I wanted to thank everyone again in that thread for their help in my situation.

tldr; Somebody from Turkey got into my BTC Talk account, so I did every means to not ever let it happen again with the help of reputated members here in the forum.

It is not beyond our control and that supposedly be avoided but those who aren't good on the computer, no-how about malware, phishing sites, they are always a victim to this.

Because in me, I don't let other people use my PC and laptop. We don't know what they are doing, what sites they have been visited, download apps and movies. A lot of possible entries that hackers will be setting up the bait, and that very unlucky if you got caught with. You can't imagine what will happen once they take control of your account.

You don't get hacked or scammed all of a sudden because Bitcoin is most secure digital currency which is encrypted with SHA-256 algorithm which is one way hash function.You coins are lost if someone get access to your private keys and have access to your funds and they transfer them to their wallets or whenever you are victim of phishing and online scams where they ask you to donate to particular address or click on some kind of link installing virus in your software that will eventually lead to loss of your btc forever.You need to backup your keys in most secure ways because they are proof of ownership of your funds and whoever have them he is owner of funds.

People get hacked all the time, only  a few are able or willing to come  and share their  experience. As soon as your private  keys or back-up phrase  are compromised, you  are doomed. Personally,  my bitcoin got stolen  on  a staking platform simply  because I had not activated 2FA security  verification. This experience  has made me to activate Google Authenticator  verification  on all platforms wherever  it's  applicable.

I think bitcoin scam are have a lot more than bitcoin hacked

hacked have many type, that mean of hack

bitcoin hacked by professional hacker may be not mush a little but very danger

bitcoin hacked by stolen identity theft

bitcoin hacked by personal like brute-force private key I think not much. but always have new person coming continue and same have many people (most) give up and quite
most people try (trying) hack bitcoin must be know about technical computer and know than end user. most programmer still not interesting to try bitcoin hacked

most people use bitcoin don't know computer. the are buyer and day trade.(speculate)

I think scam bitcoin is danger more than people hack (brute-force) and scam are make people damaged a lot
most hacked bitcoin is weak private key and password but for now very body use 25bit and not use brainwallet

bitcoin hacked by research and security still have for security and development

Don't get paranoid. If you take the necessary precautions, then the chance of your wallet getting hacked is near zero. I first purchased BTC in 2014. Ever since that date, none of my wallets have got hacked. The trick is to follow basic safety precautions, such as email verification and 2FA. Also, if you go for email verification, you need to create a fresh email rather than using the id that you use elsewhere. And Gmail is the best, because it flags whenever a login occurs from an IP which is previously not used.

Indeed I experience the same thing last time, and it is a terrible experience, I think my eth got stollen in a wallet that can link with your previous eth address, I downloaded it in play store and it is legit because it has a hundred thousand to million downloads so far, my private keys are safe, I never log in my account in anyone's pc or laptop and but after mins after I received it (I am sleeping this time) it is automatically sent to another wallet, now the price of eth is so big I am more sad realizing it.

My blockchain.com or info was hacked once and I lost some fraction of bitcoin which will be good money now. My exchange account was also hacked https://pro.collubus.com/  and they sold my assets and converted it to Bitcoin and withdraw it. Another of my exchange account was hacked, they cancelled the trade I placed sold it at market price but I lucky to visit the exchange before they withdrew it.
All these happened when I was using web extension Google Authenticator. This led to the formating of laptop, synchronizing it will new email and remove all the extensions.
Hack is not a good experience but it makes one to be more careful.

You can't be hacked automatically.  blockchain is always most privacy but in some cases they are stolen from the wallet for their own stupidity.  Which we often call hack.  Unnecessary links, strangers, should be avoided from unpopular  bad exchanger.  This should not be a problem. :)

We're advised to take precautionary measures on how to protect our digital wallets against hackers and it is possible for them to infiltrate and steal your BTC when they acquired personal information that can be used to access your wallet. So don't share your personal information specially if it's bound to your digital wallet and be aware of phishing websites all the time.

Current estimate is $2 Billion/year of BTC is hacked, mostly from exchanges

Of course BTC just dropped apr17-27 from $63k to $47k, that wiped out $400B in capitalization

This is why stolen $2B is such a small drop in the bucket

But given $1T CAP, that 0.002% which is way less than what is stolen from VISA annually

You can write a book about the ways bitcoin ppl have been robbed, and its a boring subject; majority is stupid about exchanges, and stupid about 'free offers of BTC'

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The real problem is they trust the exchanges, where the addresses are issued by default, where the exchange holds the priv-key, where the exchange is easy to hack, and insiders are corrupted. Remember everybody/anybody inside of an exchange can find the super-used password's if they wish.

IMHO most of the $2B annual exchange hacking, is insider info passed outsiders for discrete payment. You really can't blame poor security, criminality of this magnitude is always an inside job.

Besides, no insurance, no responsibility, nobody cares, perfect recipe for crime.

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