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Kind words & Support have come flooding in!
So far Noella & I have received as a loan...
nwfella (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7458182#msg7458182) BTC0.02 @ 0% Interest (thx buddy :)) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/7cebd0b3b74d02715611bcf9cb4e2781bae8f09aec2acfcd136de46ba4fcedb8)
bigtimespaghetti (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65317) BTC0.11661 @ 0% Interest (Love ya work!    :o)  Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/e42bb3afe15f06e63a1ac942b881c47120fd908e074b4dc1032c9923961a7f43)
wttbs (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=123869) BTC0.30 @ 0% Interest & a BTC0.05 (You're too generous  ;D) Paidback Pt I (https://blockchain.info/tx/727d79a0c687c39d9dc7b54217a10d9ab86335cbc1a626a94f4b9b38cab31244) & Paidback Pt II (https://blockchain.info/tx/ebb689790c0f33edd3c90f5524efe9c90378dc51a744879d39f24a92e2c08e6d)
eternalgloom (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7458443#msg7458443) BTC0.50 @ 0% Interest (I could kiss you on the mouth!  ;D) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/1f49e255219b7ae7b2020c9f12a94c5e7f908ffb9593540773e4a3b4b82f960d)
hodlmybtc (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7592112#msg7592112) BTC0.10 @ 0% Interest (Thanks Mate! ;D) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/e53d2a93549c1b1efd255704a0065974e28df3085dd59b56cd46deec6bdeb1b6)
jonald_fyookball (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7487882#msg7487882) BTC0.50 @ 0% Interest (You're a bloody legend!   :P) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/204dda26fb5dff329cea44c556873f904b656bff482b43ec7bde8e28ae432e9c)
elianite (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=231497) BTC0.30 @ 0% Interest (Much love to you mate  :o) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/08fc01cdf72bfc9da7c13fe4a103d0f7fe5f434c32a407b107281d8c7d2093de)
carpetbagger (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=79214) BTC0.10 @ 0% Interest (you the man! :)) Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/36c320e7d35b37bfda81066caa5279463eedcf4e620ffa50abdd6bb02e367266)
guigui371 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=207818) BTC0.25 & only payback US$100 and a honeymoon pic (This one made me cry   :) :'() Paidback! (https://blockchain.info/tx/d7410d6216caa9b9d3e25f225cc499e80f1def9d7374241422bce42eb4dd5a30)

odi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=36091) BTC10 @ 0% Interest & 0.25 wedding gift( :o :o :o :o :o :o)

These will all be paid most likely within 4 months. 6 months GUARANTEED.
others have donated will be named only if they want to be.
Fuserleer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7511721#msg7511721) BTC1 donated (SO GOD DAMN GENEROUS!)
TookDk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=665252.msg7598037#msg7598037) BTC0.02&BTC0.02 donated (Cheers bud  :D)
bigtimespaghetti (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65317)& squall (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=55503) Sorted BTC0.1 via mis-strikes.  Thanks fellas!  ;D ;D

wttbs (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=123869) organised a mining pool (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667976.new#new) to add to the donations. The generosity you guys have shown is beyond ridiculous.  I can't help but feel a swollen heart!
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

If I've missed anyone please let me know. It's not because I've forgotten you, it's because I probably forgot to press 'post' again :P


THE MUSEUM HAS BEEN SAVED!  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP GUYS!!!
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Hi Guys.

I just went and checked the armory wallet on my "secure" computer and noticed that it's ALL GONE. I got no idea how they got into my system. I hadn't even touched that wallet for a few days. Everything got transferred into the following addresses...

https://blockchain.info/address/1EUYvbiwWL6CTmCWhHFUd2vyUwsKjDTMTN
to
https://blockchain.info/address/1C33HsXyEDtd2wCJWT3X1G3x5RKbukQydB
etc

I lost about BTC14 and it's still there. Looking at the amounts transferred, each armory wallet was rounded to 2 digits and transferred by hand. Leaving me with $5 in each wallet.

On a side note, they managed to compromise my Bitcoin Museum (https://www.thebitcoinmuseum.com) about an hour before they transferred everything.  I think my service provider caught everything changed, but I've been restoring everything for the last few days.

So fucking upset right now  :-\

That bitcoin was going to pay for my Wedding (on the 19th of July) and the subsequent Honeymoon a few days afterwards.

It's been a pretty shitty couple of years for me. This is just the icing on the cake. :-X

• January 2013 - We got a loan to get IVF. We have been trying to have a baby for 5 years beforehand.  The procedure cost AUD$15,000.  Then the embryo was implanted.
• February 2014 - Noella's boss stressed her out until we lost the baby, and then fired her.  He pretended to help her find other work until the 2 week wrongful termination statute ran out. Then he kicked her to the kerb and told her he'd make sure she'd not find work in town again, and he'd pressure my boss to fire me.  This guy is a fucking arsehole. Living in a small town centered around tourism and hospitality, and he's got his fingers in many pies.
• March 2013 - I then started to get bullied by my boss (who is mates with Noella's old boss). I'd previously gotten several employee awards and Employee of the Month awards, so I was confused as to why I was getting harassed. I'm able to tough it out anyway.
• May 2013 - Noella was finally able to find work in the one place in town her old boss didn't have influence. An adult shop. Not the ideal place to work. But, a job is a job.
• We managed to get by. I was only just able to keep working even though a spine and bone disease that was making it more and more painful to work.
• April 2014 - Noella gets a chest infection and is fired from her job when she goes to Hospital after she develops Pneumonia. She has no recourse as she was getting paid cash in hand (she's not on the books)
• May 2014 - My bone issue has gotten to a point where I'm no longer able to work 50hrs per week. I've had to cut it down to 32hrs a week, and that is only possible with the help of Mr Tramadol and Miss Lyrica. I have to use my walking stick more often. I'm only 32 for God's sake!!

On the funny side my mates call me Dr House now :P I'm only brave enough to use the stick at home.


Fastforward to now and I thought I had just enough savings to get us through to the wedding and honeymoon.  I've been slowly saving since early last year for this wedding, but I keep getting scammed.
I lost money with Thydra13's group buy (BTC30)
I lost money to WeXchange (BTC10)
I lost BTC2 to another scammer (Darktongue)
I made a total of BTC6 from selling BitcoinNerd items on my Museum page over the last 2 years. That's all gone!

This was the last straw. I'm now fucked.  I'd only just transferred a 95% of my savings out of cold wallets to turn into fiat this week to pay for the last of the wedding/honeymoon. So badly timed.  :(

The wedding is/was only a cheap one. None of my parents can afford to help since Dad got lymphoma. The mrs really really wanted to go to Disneyland on our honeymoon. I wanted to finally meet my friend Mike. Mike also lives in California, so it's lucky him and Disneyland are in the same state. Mike is the man I donated bone marrow to in 2007. He had Leukaemia, but now he's okay. We've been dying to meet ever since we sought each other out.
Here's a link to my facebook album incase you think I'm bullshitting you. (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.23352916162.54090.697716162&type=1&l=4bd5877430)
https://i.imgur.com/y4FGVOR.jpg
Here is a picture for verification (Please excuse the face I'm pulling. I wasn't awake very long, at work, and still upset about what happened last night)
https://i.imgur.com/szNFZpF.jpg?1

To be honest trying another round of IVF would probably be a smarter option, but I really wanted to see America just once before I lose the ability to stand up straight. I still REALLY want children, but I'm forced to choose.

I know this is in the wrong sub-forum, but I need to get this out there in the hopes somebody is able to provide me a loan for the amount I lost.
I don't want pity
I don't want donations

I just need a loan from someone. Somebody I can pay back over the course of up to 6 months. With interest of course.

I'm REALLY hoping there is someone out there who can help.  I DREAD telling Noella what happened. In fact, I'm scared. I'm not sure how I'm going to break it to her.

I don't know what else to do guys :'(

EDIT: I've changed my forum BTC address to a wallet that I know is secure. 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2
That 1DobZombie address took me 3 weeks to mine with vanitygen :P

cold wallet is :
- using bitcoin-core (bitcoin-qt)
- save 3 times the file
- shutdown and don't use it

in my test, only this software can be use as a real and sure (even when update) on long period of time.
i have tested other bitcoin software and the whole android offer ... when they update, it's a problem (after 6 months when you must retrieve an old cold storage format file).

bitcoin-core don't have this problem.
i hold my retraitment in bitcoin -moved from my bank account-

It's not the cold wallet that was compromised, it was my laptop.

Where in QLD are you?

mac or PC ?

Sure internet stranger, I'll send you 14BTC let me just grab my wallet real quick  ;D

In all seriousness, this sucks. It seems like you have quite a history on this forum so I hope someone's able to help you. 14 BTC is a lot though..

PC


Airlie Beach

Also, the soon-to-be-wife used to work for airliebeach.com
Feel free to bomb that prick's facebook page.

he's just told me...very upsetting

 :'(

Was your wallet encrypted? You should first find out how this happened to prevent it from happening again.
It's a very sad story.
I guess if 140 of us donated 0.1 (which is not a big amount) we could help you with your wedding.  ;)

Also try keeping track of the coins.

That just doesn't make sense! You're using an OFFLINE computer with Armory and your Bitcoins were stolen?
Could you elaborate on that? What security measures do you use? Who have an access to your offline computer?

He didn't say it's offline, he said it was "secure".

Also, out of topic: Noella, update your website girl: Current Bitcoin Price $133.35   <------ I would love to buy a couple of hundreds of them at that price  ;D

did you install doge-miner or some shit like that? most people who think they have a secure pc also have alot of very shitty stuff on that pc and dont understand that.
to be secure you should install nothing but a firewall, antivirus and bitcoinQT. also i would recommend to have the wallet encrypted and offline.

In terms of Armory, offline is secure.

Secure when you're talking about hacking, yes. Secure overall? Not really.

I'm sorry to hear that, but with so much money, you should have known that ONLY secure is offline. Armory, or anything else...O F F L I N E. If community decides to help, ill throw some your way..not much as i dont have much, but still...

^^^ This.

Also, store your wallet on an encrypted drive and ALWAYS make sure that there are no other services or programs running in the background.
You have mentioned PC so you can easily check that through the task manager ;)

EDIT: That being said, do it now. Use the task manager to check what services and programs are running.

Yeah it was what I thought was a secure computer.

I just figured out what happened.

On my pc, my team viewer was compromised. I hadn't changed the password after the heart bleed bug happened. Or someone may have gotten the password when the forums got hacked.

The log says someone logged in and downloaded every file or folder that says Bitcoin in it.

Then transferred a file that I've identified as a Trojan. I think I may have tracked it on to the secure pc.

Fucking fuck fuck dammit

I'm not really sure what you mean. Would you mind elaborating?

Secure computer with Teamviewer on it?  ::)
Setup a donation fund IMO.  :)

I would say do a crowfunding campaign.
You got the goods (BTC memorabilia) and you are running out of time.

Setup a crowdfunding campaign and offer BTC memorabilia to those who participate.

Just a thought.

True, thanks for correcting me ;)

You laptop may even have virus that could have caused the issue

I've just updated my forum btc address. One I know is secure.
17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

Teamviewer website says it was accessed from Manly (Near Brisbane)

I've sent Teamviewer an email asking for the IP address. If I'm lucky, the cops may be able to get this prick.

teamviewer, and not changing your passwords after a forum was hacked? Why would you even have the same password for everything, including MONEY!? lesson learned the hard way, i guess. I lost over 30BTC to Silkroad being seized, oh well we live and we learn. If others join in to donate I'll spend you 0.075-0.100BTC

It was my PC that was infected.

My encoded Bitcoin wallets all had different passwords. I think they may have had a keylogger.

Shit.

I'd only sent the bitcoins from my cold wallet a couple of days earlier. This was just bad timing

I will repeat myself - use task manager to see what's running in the background ;)

Cheers for the kind words.  

I don't think I could ever break up the museum. It was my dream to eventually have a physical space to display the items

was about to ask but your keylogger comment answered my question.

I'm going to send you a PM in a few minutes. I would really appreciate you DO NOT mention or pass on what I say in the PM.
its got nothing to do with the hack, but maybe I can help with something....

Just gonna make some coffee then send the PM.
PM me if you do not hear anything from me in like 15 minutes... I get forgetful at times :p

Sorry for your loss mate. Sad to hear when a fellow AU or anyone gets screwed over like this.


If it was team viewer, obviously you been racking your brain thinking, but you given access to anyone lately ?

Was this 14 BTC of your own money or 14 BTC of other people's money?

God bless you if this is honest but all of these sobs stories are coming out like crazy now.  First it's suicide stories, now it's you were going to pay for your wedding and honeymoon.  Listen, you have so much BTC in your possession, why are you not keeping all of these safer?  I read all the scam losses you've had and I'm like, after 1 or 2, why wouldn't you be keeping better hold of your coins?

it was our own money that we mined and made from selling collectable coins and my jewellery store

Does it matter?

The BTC is gone....

use cold storage man, its best solution to never loose coins again
real one, not imaginary one

Nope, even the mrs struggles to remember my access passwords :P

Sucks man! Too bad I almost have 0 BTC due to shitty investments. I might be able to help to dox scammers. Let me know if I can help through PM.

Andy, did you check if there is any background programs or services running yet?

I would like to know because it might give clues as to tracking the thief

There was a couple of Trojans. Also found them on my my pc. I may have tracked them to my laptop when I was downloading and installing files on both computers.

So I am guessing your laptop wasn't as "secure" as you thought it was.

I would recommend using paper wallets next time.
And DO make sure that you generate your paper wallet address from a really secure system.
What I see as secure system is:

Format your PC and make sure it has NO connection to the internet,
Generate the paper wallet address and write down your private key,
Re-format the PC you have created your paper wallet from.

I think you should be safe there.

EDIT: Do keep in mind that even after formatting data can be retrieved.

I appreciate all the donations I've received so far :)

I'm still keen for a loan. I'll put up the Museum as collateral if I have to.

The museum is important to me, but Noella is more important.

I'm sorry Bitcoin, but I've been cheating on you :P

A good chunk of the money was in a paper wallet. I transferred it to my regular wallet to send it to coinjar next week.

I would sent it straight to coinjar, but after weexchange and gox, I can't trust anyone else to hold my money. Not even me Apparently   :-[

How do you know the OP is not just a scammer who stole the login/password and now is pulling on everyone's heart strings for handouts?  Or simply bought the account to scam people with?  If he had used Armory with an OFFLINE computer then he wouldn't have lost his BTC.  My BTC stays with me regardless of how many sob stories I see posted here.  These posts are so suspect-able.....

I really can't fathom why more people just don't keep their money on Coinbase...

Very sorry to hear. Sad story and hope things get better for you guys soon!

You don't and to me personally the story doesn't make sense.
However, it could be real so I will not make any comments on the subject yet.

Do you mean they got into your website?  In that case, every webserver has log files. This log files show the method of attack, IP addresses etc. It might provide some clues.
The log files are on different directories depending if you use Apache, NGinx, ISS etc;

Your PC was not secure. You cannot randomly download software on a computer that stores around 8000$ worth of coins. Are the trojans still on the computer?  The one thing to do is find it. Then use a Hexeditor to see if you can find any information in the binary.

Because his reputation precedes yours.

So does Bobsag3's and KnC's.

I don't see your point

Big problem with this community in the still early stages is that it is essentially the same as the old west in America. Ultimately pretty hard to trust ANYONE. 

If OP's story is true, then sorry to hear.

If not, things will catch up with you.

Stop living a paranoid life, not everyone is a scammer you know.

When someone claims tha their BTC have been stolen because of teamviewer and then say they had trojans it makes you wonder.
don't you think?

I have yet to get an answer of which trojans.

That being said, this is a rough community where everybody grabs the opportunity to fuck someone over - proven many times before.

SO, my question to you is:
Do you send your money blindfully to a stranger that does not provide valid evidence of theft?


Rep means jack shit.
We have seen how many reputable people screwed the community before.

I find that the inherent trust of a person is often related to the metallurgical content of the spoon that they were born with.

I'm guessing that you may have been born on a different side of the tracks then some of the rest of us ;)

Go ahead and donate to him then.....Suckers born every minute.

@Singlebyte. Interesting avatar. Are you like... half a sith or something ;)

LOL...just couldn't find any wings like yours!  :)

Stories like these were you have had good security scare me :(
I hope you find the person, hang them up by the genitals and let the vultures pick at them.
They are themselves vultures.

Vultures don't pick at themselves

I have a strange feeling that we are about to find out that Andy's account has been hacked....

I also have a strange feeling that those coins are about to be mixed

Instead of giving out loans or donations, why don't we just buy a shitload of stuff on his store?
He would be making profit and we would get something in return, so no chance of being scammed. (Not that I don't believe him)

If he has enough stock of course.

How about Andy provides valid evidence of his claim and we just donate?
I wouldn't mind....   


 ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

No, it's me. Message me via my email or facebook to confirm
Dobzombie@yahoo.com.au
Www.facebook.com/DobZombie/

How do I prove my claim?

Norton destroyed the Trojans.

This wouldn't have friggin happened if windows defender did it's job  :-[

Eww.. Windows Defender :(
Piece of crap if you ask me.

Possibly.

If your laptop got compromised, how can you access your acccount?
-----
However, if I could speak to Life, I would say:

"You are so shit, you don't realize what you're doing!"  - Gordon R.

If this is actually you, Life is a big fucking pile of shit that fucks over so many people in orgies it should be banned due to massive rape.

Dang, this bad news....

But I would be up for buying stuff !  Whatcha got?

I have several PCs, all being checked for trojans etc.

Here is a picture for verification
https://i.imgur.com/szNFZpF.jpg?1

And a picture from my facebook detailing bone marrow donation
https://i.imgur.com/y4FGVOR.jpg

Really sad story.  You sound like a genuinely good fella.  Been the victim of a few bad decisions myself.  I'll watch to see if you put anything up for auction that I can afford (wouldn't be much) and hope maybe you get some donations.  Good luck to you.

cheers buddy :)

So what can we buy to help you recover financially?

That really sucks about the wedding... I want to help.

well, at this point I don't want to sell anything from the museum. That stuff is very precious to me.

I am willing to put it up as collateral for a loan, so I've just put up a thread doing just that.

THREAD - Got hacked, need 14BTC, will offer TheBitcoinMuseum and contents as collateral. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659785.0)

put me down for .5 BTC.

i hope others will be inspired to help !

Appreciate that Jonald! If I can get the amount required I'll work out something with you :)

Only BTC13.5 to go!

Again, thank you so much. You're actually the first person to put forward anything.

Dude, hopefully you take this as the complement that is...

Anyway - the producers of Game of Thrones should hire you for 14 BTC, even as an extra for their show,  cause you REALLY look the part ;)

I've got little over a bit-penny (0.013 I think) on my coinbase account that I could lend if it would help.  Sure wish I had it all to lend to you but really struggling right now myself but I feel for you guys and sounds like it would do you more good than I if a few larger fish hoped in and helped you out as well.  Good luck and lemme know if you want me to send that.

lol, cheers buddy :)

nwfella, thanks for the offer, that is very sweet of you  :)

This sucks. I'll refund the coin payment you kindly sent.

Also, I will be happy to lend a small amount of BTC (just finished a contract so I'm gonna be strapped soon).

And I'd like to participate in the auction/buy from your site to help too.

To all those scam accusations out there, please look at dobs forum history.

I would be one of those.

Andy I apologize.
We have seen so many things in these forums that I actually thought your account was hacked.

I am sorry and when I get home I will send some btc your way (not much - sorry I don't have much either)
Should I use the address in your profile?

I will also ask my wife if she would be interested in any of Noella's creations.
She's not much of a jewellery person (yeah, saves me money  ;D) but I will ask her.

I wish you and Noella all the best :)

Also to everyone else reading this: Buy your wife/girlfriend a gift: http://www.noellajean.com/

PS: Andy, change your passwords if you didn't already.

Cheers buddy :)

I'd rather not take a refund on an item you sent me, but I'd be happy to take a loan from you :)

Thanks for your support mate. It's understandable that you're as cautious as you are. I know of a lot of people here that have been hacked, since the bitcointalk forums got hacked.

The address in my profile is a fresh clean address on a fresh wallet. Bloody changing passwords on everything is a pain in the bum!

Again, really appreciated :)

two things.

1. I want to encourage everyone to lend/donate to
these 2 individuals.  I have pledged .5 BTC. 

2. I think the lesson for everyone with cold storage
is that it is better to create an offline transaction
and then broadcast than it is to move signifigant
funds from cold into hot storage.

Bro, I think giving a step by step guide on how to do that will help a lot of people in this community - me included.
Apart from keeping my things encrypted I have not looked into cold storage simply because I don't have much BTC (really I don't have almost nothing compared to what I have spend on miners  :-[  I should have just bought coins instead).

But if I ever become BTC rich I would like to know about all the possible ways to protect my coins.

I am sure that others do too....

There's a step-by-step guide for installing offline Armory and creating offline transactions on their webpage:

https://bitcoinarmory.com/about/using-our-wallet/


I have my offline copy installed on an SD card with linux, but you could just put it on an old laptop/netbook.

Thanks :)

Will look into it.

https://electrum.org/tutorials.html

Thanks bro :)
Much appreciated.

Any other guides apart from electrum?

I hope everything works out for you dude. You seem like a really stand-up kind of guy, and it just sucks that stuff like this always happens to those kind of people :/

Why not start up some crowd source donation project? Or something? Other then here?
That would help a lot more.

The processes sound very similar to armory's features . But certainly worth following.

I agree, you'll only reach a few hundred forum regulars here in a short period.

Granted, this site is full of scammers. but, for some reason, I believe this guy. As soon as I can, Ill throw you a little something.. I hope your luck turns for the better.

Not religious or anything, but one quote from the bible sticks out in my head when I look at your past good deeds.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+6:31

I think its because you saved a guys life through bone marrow donation, its that is bringing people to rescuing you.
You rescued someone else, so it happens upon you too.

People seen your good deed, see your a good honest guy, and even people above saying they seen a bunch of scam
posts, but they "believe you". Which makes me think of that passage.

cheers guys :)

I'm a really really proud guy, and I find it hard to take donations from people  :-[
That's why I pushing for a loan, I feel weird being the one that receives help I suppose.

But...it's coming to the crunch and I might have to look at selling some of the more valuable Bitcoin Museum items  :-\

In the future do chunks from your cold storage, Don't sell all 14 BTC at once, do like 1 BTC, 1 BTC, 1 BTC
in increments. So at most you can lose 1 BTC if your main computer gets compromised.
The moment cold coins touch hot, its vulnerable to anything. Just remember this.

I always myself do in small chunks just for safety reasons. I did once gotten hacked, luckily I was only doing small
chunks so I only lost 1 BTC vs waay more.

Just consider each BTC is like $600, and its like 30 hours at a job that makes $20/hour.
Spending an extra 10 mins per 1 BTC up to 1 hour and 30 mins for 15 coins is worth it.
14 BTC is like $8,400, or 420 hours of hard labor work, trade off for like 45-90 mins of doing it in small chunks.

Imagine if you did do 1 BTC chunks, you would of only lost 1 BTC, and not 14 BTC.

Life is a bitch sometimes, but we as all humans learn from our past mistakes.

12 months ago I  would have sent straight from cold storage to my exchange (coinjar), but after all these exchanges and online wallets that keep going down I've learnt not to trust them.

What dumb about all of this, is that my really secure small laptop would have normally processed this, but was down because I had been attempting to install a super secure Linux system onto it.  It failed and killed master boot record. It came with recovery discs for a different O/S then what was installed. Lenovo want $120 for the correct ones! Friggin Lenovo are a piece of shit, is all I can say about that!

Anyway, hindsight is a terrible super power to have & I need to concentrate on sorting this shit out! :P

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cCYbxxHhP6c/TwBLMYSgpvI/AAAAAAAAAOU/HKx7fxT7Nmo/s1600/hindsight2.jpg

The coins have moved again.

https://blockchain.info/address/18iHJroMP5coZZpnEGvhaZ4nf3LVUZKESp

I've now got 2 whole bit cents i can shoot to the cause.  Is this the address you guys have control over for help?
17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

that is the correct address, thank you

I am sorry for your loss.

And if you can upload and send me that file via PM i could know who is behind that hack.

0.02 btc sent.  Wish I could do more and hope the best for the two of you.

https://blockchain.info/tx/bae2e9fa51061be97ab357c095148974175e358ab65fdeda03f7dff9cc298b19

I would be able to provide you with a loan of 0.50 btc
Since these are special circumstances, you can take as much time as you want to pay me back, and I do not want any interest.

I am moving some coins right now, but when everything is confirmed, I will send the 0.50 btc to you.

Edit: I will send when you confirm this is ok for you.

Oh yeah.  Forgot to add that part too.  No stress on timeline getting it back here either :)

We could start a gamble-gang for you? everybody just bet .5 :X

Thank you so much guys!  You got no idea how much every little bit helps :)

Once loaned I'll pop it on the front page with status etc

Whats a gamble gang, it sounds interesting!

14 BTC big amount. wish you can get back again

Insert sappy, girly quote here....

Thank you guys, you both rock  ;D

0.5 BTC sent to 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

https://blockchain.info/tx/09a0ed294ee21836a8610a4dbb80cc4a871fb87b8297105801bf464ec1db4ab8 (https://blockchain.info/tx/09a0ed294ee21836a8610a4dbb80cc4a871fb87b8297105801bf464ec1db4ab8)

Here is a link to the file
WARNING! TROJAN! WARNING! TROJAN! WARNING! TROJAN!
http://wikisend.com/download/420034/svchost.exe
WARNING! TROJAN! WARNING! TROJAN! WARNING! TROJAN!

It's an extractable archive

Correct me if I am wrong but svchost.exe is actually a windows file.

You have mentioned windows defender before and I am pretty sure that windows defender uses svchost.exe

Perhaps it was infected?

The original service host (svchost) file is legit and it's signed by microsoft. and to make malicious files less suspicious hackers sometimes rename their files to match legit ones. So if you see it outside C:\Windows\System32 then that's not the real one.

In this case svchost acts like an archive file (zip or rar) and it's self extracting 3 files: dialected.exe, file.bin, and "Nuevo imagen de mapa de bits.bmp"
"Nuevo imagen de mapa de bits" is the translation of "New bitmap image" in spanish.

I am not sure the dialected.exe file is malicious, it's tagged by two antivirus engines but i can't analyze it, it keeps crashing inside the virtual machine.

So could this be a weakness on windows defender?
Not being able to block malicious software?

Windows defender doesn't protect you from all bad things http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/09/windows-8-protected-from-85-of-malware-detected-in-the-past-six-months-right-out-the-box/
And that's not only windows defender, you shouldn't rely on anti-virus software to fully protect you anyway, they do some protection but it's not 100% secure.
The senior vice president for information security of Symantec (who make Norton antivirus) said that antivirus is dead, it's not as good as it used to be, antivirus did get better but so did the malicious hackers.

Nothing can protect you against bad behavior like willingly downloading and executing an exe.

This basically means that the hacker is Spanish, or at least speaks spanish. We're onto something.
If we can get some IPs that would be useful.

Not particularly, there is other Spanish speaking countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language).
It would help greatly to know where is the file originated from. Link/forum/email etc.

Perhaps I should clarify.

I have no idea where the original Trojan on my PC came from. I'll list what happened once they got into my laptop.

They got into teamviewer.

they then went to
http://69.31.136.5/defaults/sendspace-pop.html
then went
http://aff.trafficjmp.com/geo/preset/162/1/0/0
Then went to some of my bookmarks
then went to
https://www.sendspace.com/file/cwyxow
which downloaded said trojan.

at about the same time they went to my website's provider and uploaded via FTP
They told me that it came from IP 119.81.27.176

That's all I have so far...

So far Noella and I have received loans from...
Kind words & Support have come flooding in!
So far Noella & I have received...
nwfella (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7458182#msg7458182) BTC0.02 @ 0% Interest (thx buddy :))
bigtimespaghetti (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65317) BTC0.10 @ 0% Interest (you the man! :))
eternalgloom (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659146.msg7458443#msg7458443) BTC0.50 @ 0% Interest (I could kiss you on the mouth!  ;D)

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you guys so very much.  I knew the community would help me out!  It's not 14BTC, but it's a fucking great start

Thanks again guys  ;)

I've posted in the other thread my offer to help.

My .5 BTC loan offer is still on the table as well.  0% interest.

I thought I PM'd you?  Maybe I just accidentally solicited a random bitcointalk user :P

I will take you up on your offer Jonald. thanks  8)

Hi Dob. Did you get my PM? I'm a little confused because you didn't reply, but the 0.1 btc was from me.

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking generally and i know what the hacker did, you already said that.

Thanks for the other info, i will see what that leads us.

Also did you keep a copy of the files the hacker edited/uploaded?

I just replied to your PM. I got you and another confused :P

Cheers mate, you're a legend

I'm treating that laptop as a crime scene right now, slowing pulling what info I can from it.

0.5 BTC sent.

https://blockchain.info/tx/e47777645e6f3ced846d0dcd7c4840a24d7dcd3211247b1ae0d448281abc467d

Thanks mate, received.

Also thanks for your signature

You're one of the first to show concern, I can't thank you enough :)

You made a clone of the hard drive before you did anything, right?  :-\

Looks like most of the coins that were stolen are sitting here  https://blockchain.info/address/1JZn4qpmH8hQKxB4AfaYWkwZFKovumwEt1 Maybe I clicked on the wrong link to follow but I think thats where 10 stolen coins are.. Not like you can do anything about it, but i was thinking about sending them a dust message, but that would just enrich the thieves even more, even if its dust...

Thieves don't have morals, so they wouldn't care about the message.
Karma will give them what they deserve as it always does.
The best revenge is good living.

The best revenge is a small chunk of lead through the brain AND recovering the coins, in no particular order. Hopefully they will make a mistake and purchase something that makes them known.

About karma: "Noella's boss stressed her out until we lost the baby, and then fired her".

....they appear to have a huge backlog.  :)

Nope, I panicked and ran norton.  I can be a fkn fool sometimes... :-\

Couldn't agree more with everything that you said!

I always have linux live usb distro handy for when I get a trojan or something like that.
It saved my ass once, installed an app to help me get odd calculations for online poker and it turned out to be a trojan.

The hacker sent me a message through NETSEND telling me to log into my pokerstars account or he would wipe my pc.
Doing this would let him get the password ofc, through the built in keylogger.

Just pulled out my ethernet cable, rebooted into the live distro and removed the threat with ClamAV.

This might not be applicable to your situation, but nevertheless could come in handy for any future infections.

hey dob, I know you're busy, but I hope you haven't missed my message donating some more items to auction for you.

after some very long discussions a decision has been made by Dob to part with our museum items - unless they can be sponsored - please be aware that all items that were donated to the museum are excluded from this "auction" as these are sponsored by those individuals that dontated them

here is the feed for the list:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=665252.msg7506419#msg7506419

please share around and feel free to post your bids within the feed

PM me  please ;)

I send 0.3 BTC with 0% intrest loan to help them out.

DobZombie doesn't accept donations but I believe he can't refuse a gift  ;D so I send him 0.05 BTC as a gift, he must spend on the wedding cake or champagne.

I hereby ask the community send if possible a small gift if you can miss it. Please feel free to do so, so they can have great  (big) wedding cake and a nice bottle of champagne ;D

It's great to see all those people from the bitcoincommunity that help out someone who is trouble, respect !

yeah come on guys!

I sent him 1 BTC as a gift today, this guy deserves some help, he's one of the good ones!

I would suggest to add the current amount raised to the title and update it when it has changed a lot.
And I think it's a bit sad that you have to auction stuff from the museum, I really hope you can get the full amount by loans and donations.

For those who lent him money (like i did)
I told him that if the price of bitcoin skyrocket before he can give back the money he will only have to give back the fiat equivalent at today's rate.

(ie : if you lend him 1BTC today = 550$ but if in 3 months 1BTC = 2500$ he will have all the difficulties to give it back but 550$ will always be 550$).

I even told him that if BTC is obove 1500$ he doens't have to give me back the BTC lent as i would have made a small profit on the remaining BTC i have ...therefore it would be a gift.

+1
very good point

I send him a PM about my loan to use the same conditions as you mention for payback.

sure me too

You guys sure are rallying!

Thank you
thank-you
thank-you!

It makes me very happy to see everyone supporting our comrade. I'd offer a zero interest loan too if I had any money. :P BTC

Kind words are worth just about as much as actual BTC.

Thanks man :)

Hello!

I am ready to give you and I don't want any interest. If I had seen this post a few days ago I could have give you more but now I have only some as I bought Ghs with some BTC. Please tell me how many BTC you want, I will try my best to give you.  :)
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

MINING FOR DobZombie WEEKEND

To help DocZombie out I hereby ask the community to point their miner(s) this weekend, June 28 and June 29, to the wallet of DobZombie.

If a lot of Bitcoin community members point (one of their) miner(s) for 1 or 2 days to the wallet of DobZombie we would help him out to get 10 to 12 BTC in just one weekend ! You will only miss 1 or 2 days miningprofit for your own wallet.

I will point some of my miners with a hashpower of 3.4TH/s total (which is 0.1BTC per day) to DobZombie's wallet this full weekend. Come on guys and girls, every little bit of hashpower will help ! If at least 100 or more people will join we should be able to mine 10+ BTC for him.

Do only mine to DobZombie's wallet: 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

If we use eligius miningpool we can easily mine direct to his wallet. !

Pooladdress: stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st
port: 3334
DobZombie Wallet: 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

BFGMiner command:
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -O 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2 -p anything

CGMiner command:
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2 -p anything

Live Statistics: http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2

I also posted this in the Mining section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667976.0

This is amazing!!

I fired up the first miner:

http://s10.postimg.org/kkjqar6cp/Schermafbeelding_2014_06_27_om_17_41_45.png
http://s28.postimg.org/du0kxyhzx/Schermafbeelding_2014_06_27_om_17_43_19.png

I changed my paying address in pbmining to 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2 . A final approval from the pbmining is needed for changing the address and it will change in 48 hours. I will not change the address unless you get enough Bitcoin or you tell us to stop mining or after ~1 month. :)
I hope you will get the whole Bitcoins back in a week. :)
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

+1 Thanks Muhammed !!

I like to help others. Its our duty to help others if they need help.
Please change your signature for at-least 1 week. You can copy mine and paste it or create a new one with more details. :) If you are participating in a campaign, send the Bitcoins you get to 17uWCajedEVHJgds2Fzm752By1YVG4wPN2 .

Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

This is a GREAT idea!!

Respect you guys!

I agree. This is awesome.

I only have a couple of Gpus, but I hope that community members will take this up.

Sorry man  :(

I lost in sharexcoin -scam. So i can´t send you btc but i´ve changed my signature for you (hope it will help)

I have changed my signature. Hope will be able to afford to help you a bit before your wedding.

P.S. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Have a patience with the bastard (wife's boss). He will have his dues payed, sooner or later.

He is mates with my current boss.  So occasionally he tried (and fails) to get me fired.

He'll get what coming, there are a LOT of people in town that hate his guts.


Cheers for the well wishes guys, and the signatures.  I still can't believe how much help people are giving!

 ;D :'( ;D

There are people who can help you and others who like to help you but they couldn't do it.
Anyway I hope you can get enough Bitcoins/Money. Wish you best of luck. I can only say it and give a few help. I found this post very lately.

Edit: I am trying to join a campaign and send BTC I get to your address. So if you know any campaign which Jr.Members are included please give me the link.

Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

Hi Andy,

changed my signature too, hopefully it will get views coz of the ARG we are playing now :)

That being said, guys join in the game and hopefully one of us will win and give part or the whole amount to the newlyweds ;)


Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.0)

I had a go a that puzzle.  The whole thing broke my brain!

Hey DobZombie, really sorry to hear this.

I also got hacked in february (poker account) but that's off-topic, so I wish I could donate you some money, mine for you or lend you more but unfortunately I'm having a hard time myself too.

So I've sent you 0.1 BTC as a loan with 0% interest, https://blockchain.info/tx/e1bad0c39a4f0d499d38285cf8b045f58bf966ad9ba07beeaab2e3df3a4c1d41

I know it's not much but all the little bits help I hope, you can pay it back whenever you can to the same address, 1PAeykcDoWNv1t6zaBTXBSsCW8XxWT2Acp, if this address changes for whatever reason I'll let you know.

If the value of BTC would explode sending the dollar equivalent in BTC is fine (about $60 as of today).

I hope you guys still have an awesome honeymoon besides all this!

Also all the best with your spine and bone disease.

Confirmed!

Thanks matey. I for one one BTC will go TO DA MOOOOON!

I will be paying back BTC, regardless of value. 

I give you my word.

any word on the IP you suspect did the attack ?

my henchmen are ready and waiting!

Henchmen.  That is a sexy word when said henchmen are not pointed in your direction  ;D

I've only been able to get an IP from 1and1 internet. They responded very quickly. Here is the response as follows...

Teamviewer were not so helpful.  They demanded that the Queensland police send them an information request.  This response took them nearly a week.

Anyway, this is the only IP I have so far...
119.81.27.176

Have you posted your story to reddit? It seems that btcrobinhood helps people out for way less.

I'm a little weary about reddit.

Those guys rip people to shreds.  :-\

I can post your story Dob, how'd you feel about that?

That would be super awesome!

On a side note shit got worse today. I got a full blown reprimand (nearly got fired) for using the computer at work to try and get this whole shitfest sorted out. Fucking kick in the pants after being there for 7 years. No sympathy at all, they couldn't give 2 fucks
*sighs*

Sorry to hear you're having a rough time. We all have our troubles and you seem to have an unfair share.

Can someone link to the subreddit I should post in? I'll write something up after lunch.

Please share this link:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/appeal-for-donations-for-a-good-guy-who-got-hacked-for-his-wedding/x/8068713#home/share

Thought it'd be good to have an avenue for fiat donations too.

Please upvote this too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/29k1ir/appeal_for_help_loans_or_donations_for_a_good_guy/

Jonny. I'm speechless. Can't bloody believe it!

You guys have done so much for me. I think now I don't really care what happened to me at work. I now know who the stand up guys are in this community, and who my friends here are!

:)

This is the first time I've had off in months (contract ended). The least I can do is spend a few hours trying to help someone that deserves it.

As John Marston in Red Dead says:

Just been playing it recently ;)

I spelt ya name wrong before, fixed it now :)

Yeah Red Dead is on my to do list!

I'll donate the profit I got from selling some of your pizza coins at my local bitcoin meet. 20 mBTC
It's not much, but I hope it helps :)

in the last hour we have had a wonderful member of this bitcoin community step forward and offer a loan for the remaining 10 coin needed to recoup the stolen amount - this means that none of the items will be sold and the museum will remain intact

I would like to thank everyone who has assisted us in loans and donations towards this amount, you have all restored my faith in the BTC community and I am now typing with eyes full of tears

and I would also like to say to everyone who showed an interest in this auction that I thank you for your support and kind words. Thanks to you guys the museum will not be getting split up, if you all hadn't got the word out there we would not have received the loans and donations that we did.

https://blockchain.info/tx/a53280605ca1afc9dd63b519b435c66e50cfdab2409079b5178b0c83f66e57c7

I seem to take months off these forums as I get busy IRL, I just happened to be looking in the Goods section today to buy something to recoup recent electricity costs and saw the museum items up for sale.  This perplexed me, so I read through all the threads and their Facebook public pages.  I have loaned the remainder of what they need to get their wedding and honeymoon funded and to keep the museum together.  I myself have a mini museum of my 5770's, MMQ, Avalon B3, and Bitfury, so I know what that feeling is all about.

That is great news Noella!

Give him/her my warmest thanks.

Once again I wish you guys all the best :)

you are a very wonderful person for helping us out...I have no idea what to say and not get all gushy

from the bottom of my heart I thank you very much for helping us out

Odi you are a great man/woman!

Thanks for helping out the guys.
I would have given it to them but I don't have it  :-[

Thanks!

I'm really happy to hear that. I was considering just using my bids as sponsoring the few I bid on in the end anyway. But it's great a member of the community was able to help.

This is great! Well done Odi. *round of applause*

well done guys and girls

big thanks from everyone here. I don't know the lender or lendee but anyone from australia is cool and deserves help when they need it :)

I think a company like Bitcoin Trezor could get great publicity by helping out a guy like Dob. They probably have a lot of BTC left drom the pre order phase, they could easily send a Trezor to Dob with 10 BTC on it ;)

3 cheers for Odi!

Dob, I hope you've cashed those coins out for
the wedding and bought what you need, god
forbid you get hacked a second time, please
take care of business!

Congrats Dob. I was just about to send you some when I realized you've met your goal. Do you need any more BTC by any chance?

we did reach the goal with massive thanks to Odi...any further loans will mean extra churros (I love those things...nom nom) while on honeymoon

upon return we will be fixing up everything on the museum site that could possibly be affected (the BTC address for example) and my jewellery site (until then I'm having a sale on the fb page that's not on the site), and taking any donations of physical items, speeding their upload to the site and "re-launching" with everything secure

if you have any items you would like to donate send either of us a pm and we can sort things out  ;D

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!

Really does my spirit good to see the community get together to help out with this.  Big kudos to the fella that took up the remaining slack...even if he is Australian :p

Have an amazing honeymoon guys! :)

lol...he's not Australian, but we are....

im glad you are Australian -- we need Bitcoiners everywhere!

So happy for you both !

Have a fantastic wedding !! :)

you guys should invite that lender to the wedding and have a big throne for him to sit in.

I picture Game of Thrones throne  ;D Instead of swords it's made out of bitcoins.

Glad to see this worked out for the two of you.

Wish you guys the best!

thanks for the support, smoothie

if we had a stop-over in Hawaii we would've organised to have a drink with you :)

fixed.

Congrats, My friends! :) I am really happy that you are okay now. Sorry that I could only give very few BTC compared to others.

Thanks to the person who gave the rest of BTC  :) He really did a great job. :)

Kindly,
        MZ

I got reimbursed  (thanks Andrew) and i have to say that Andrew is so kind and humble that he didn't not catch the mistake i made asking him 0.5B for the 0.25B i lent him

So here is the Tx of me reimbursing Andrew of 0.25B extra paid


https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/d235040ce2d50d22ac3284c78e4abd3191475edb41d93b944f9c3273f136fecf

You guys are a nice couple i wish you good luck.

I listed me as a universal spinal fluide donor as well.

I have been repaid in full! And it seems he sent an extra BTC?

https://blockchain.info/address/13M5iwY1dzVT2Hq4aC1CcsXxbepg7wKzPw

I am ecstatic that I helped keep the museum intact.