Hi again... welp from what it looks like to me, the thieve has already moved my bitcoins to another address the transaction is:3752dfa7a8fb15eb9febf5b108b09c5b8b90d068beb8973aa616ac940366964f

I'm confused about this reply, it gives me hope that I am just unknowledgeable about BTC and BTC wallets. Could '133tgZXxeJGnoWc467jStKTvj8PB1Hs9kS' be my change address? Was this bitcoin stolen from me? That is why I came to this forum to find out if I had my BTC stolen from my BTC address of 1LW3QuLxkyp92HGvMFio4eYY6puxmnGSDa and xfer'ed to:133tgZXxeJGnoWc467jStKTvj8PB1Hs9kS. I will admit I do not fully understand how the wallet works, and when you call it a "Change address" it gives me hope that my BTC is still retrievable. Is it? Or has it been stolen?

Thank you for your help

BTW, i have installed Electrum...


Also, I have never exported my private keys.

The 1LW3 is my address and the 133tg took my coins. I didn't authorize this transaction at all. Which is kinda creepy. I guess I just never though someone would actually infiltrate my computer... Sucks to lose all my BTC after mining for so long and only accumulating 2.84 and then having them taken. I guess he / she was teaching me an expensive lesson... but hey, humans suck.

Thank you all for your help, I will keep plugging away. I still believe in crypto, regardless of the heartless.

Ok, thanks a lot for the quick responses.

So, from what I gather I should store my Bitcoin wallet on a computer that is mostly offline? I downloaded the bitaddress HTML and put it on my external hard drive, then disconnected from the internet, generated a new public and private key, wrote them down (double checking for human error), and then transferred some bitcoin I bought today to that new address. Is this safe enough? Or are there other precautions I should take?

Do I need to use a completely different computer to generate my offline wallet? I scanned my computer with Avast! b4 I generated my offline wallet and it seems to be clean now (it did find some virus', one in boot time scan and one in a regular scan). Oh, sad times... 

Hello, The other day I checked my BitcoinQT software, because I wanted to check my balance, only to find that an unauthorized transaction had taken place for basically all the bitcoin I own... I had my wallet encrypted and everything. I have come to realize that someone somehow stole my BTC, I decided to come to this site to see if anyone could shed some light as to how my wallet was hacked. My BTC address is: 1LW3QuLxkyp92HGvMFio4eYY6puxmnGSDa and the thieves address is: 133tgZXxeJGnoWc467jStKTvj8PB1Hs9kS  and the transaction ID is: f1223be531a8120c87c6d3696efd28c58f6e69964ae451957fd9c35391935135.

They stole all of my BTC that I had been slowly mining and saving up. It's a small amount, 2.84 BTC, but it meant a lot to me to have at least some bitcoin. Now I have none.... It is disheartening the amount of malicious attacks that happen within the Bitcoin network, people are cold.

Anyway, is anyone able to give me advice as to how this was stolen from me?  If I buy more bitcoin I don't want it to be stolen again, so I need to close the backdoor I left open for the thieve. It's scary to think that he got a hold of my encryption key, because It was intricate and would be difficult to just brute force, which leads me to believe that my keystrokes were being logged.

Once again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks ahead of time.