One final post, then I'm just going to look forward and leave this mess behind.  Some points.

1. I'm an idiot.  I accept that. I hope sharing this experience can help others avoid the same mistakes that I made.

2. I can't figure out the message signing with the segwit address.  Wish that worked with the Bitcoin Core GUI wallet. Tried Electrum, but had no luck.  Not something I need to waste time with at this point.  If there is a mod or a trusted member of the forum willing, I'd be fine with sending some sats to them from my wallet. Send me a private message.  As others have said, that still doesn't prove anything, so whatever.

3. I joined this forum about 10 years ago.  I don't visit very often these days.  Merit points or whatever mean nothing to me.  Give me negative merits, just does not matter.

4. I have reported this theft to my local police as well as filed a cyber incident report with my state and the FBI.  I don't expect anything from that outside of being a statistical data point.

5. I know exactly where this malware came from that got us.  Website, file name, time, etc.

6. I contacted one of those recover your Bitcoin bounty hunters, but it's a scam.  I figured as much, but wanted to hear what they were going to say. The BS they were spouting was kind of funny.
 
7. I still love Bitcoin, my wife and my life. While this really sucks, it's not the end of the world for us.

Peace and love, yours truly, soulcity   

My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do

I've never signed a message before. These were segwit addresses they don't seem to show up in the sign message feature of Bitcoin core GUI.  I'll See if I can figure it out.

Not looking for any sympathy. I know I screwed up.

TX IDs:

e4fda9c61c782ad0035ee9b5c551e7e48a67c294499ae7cdc6702c7d3b06b19e

1ec109e71874990c33afd66eff4050776a1ba796d92b97cea8dc48b948fed6c8

95e9e7a88536668bbfaaf12b417ec3ec74d851d018726511ec797061d495c97a

ed8e7988e4c000b05c1814c3aaeb5170a452ee54c2dd33cc1e533fbc885ec25d

Yes, I can see the coins moved in  to two addresses in the explorer

Definitely not my wife. We live in a rural setting. She doesn't have the computer knowledge to even launch the wallet. This was an external hack.

I first noticed when I logged into Koinly and saw my BTC balance was reduced.  I then launched Bitcoin Core and it was about a week behind.  Showed my 11btc as it updated, then hit the date of the hack and it went to zero.  Wallet is encrypted and appears to work fine. PC is turned off now and hard drives will be wiped. This definitely sucks, but not the end of the world.  Opportunity for others to learn or be reminded from my mistakes.

Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address

Talked to my wife.  She tried to install a voice changer software yesterday from a link on twitter and it didn't install.  This is a windows 11 PC.  I see something new called WingFtpServer as a startup program. That has to be it. C'est la vie   

     

Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet.  The wallet wasn't open at the time.  I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.  

edit to add:

Definitely not my wife. We live in a rural setting. She doesn't have the computer knowledge to even launch the wallet. This was an external hack.

I first noticed when I logged into Koinly and saw my BTC balance was reduced.  I then launched Bitcoin Core and it was about a week behind.  Showed my 11btc as it updated, then hit the date of the hack and it went to zero.  Wallet is encrypted and appears to work fine. PC is turned off now and hard drives will be wiped. This definitely sucks, but not the end of the world.  Opportunity for others to learn or be reminded from my mistakes.

Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address.   After further investigation this looks to have been caused by a botnet.

edit 2:

All of my addresses in Bitcoin Core are segwit.  I can't seem to find a way to create a signed message with segwit and Bitcoin Core.  If you don't believe my post that's fine.  I'm not looking to gain anything, just want to tell my story so others don't make the mistakes I did.

TX IDs of the four transactions that drained my wallet:

e4fda9c61c782ad0035ee9b5c551e7e48a67c294499ae7cdc6702c7d3b06b19e

1ec109e71874990c33afd66eff4050776a1ba796d92b97cea8dc48b948fed6c8

95e9e7a88536668bbfaaf12b417ec3ec74d851d018726511ec797061d495c97a

ed8e7988e4c000b05c1814c3aaeb5170a452ee54c2dd33cc1e533fbc885ec25d

I sold some @ $58k and bought a car.  Been hodling since 2013 and that was my first big bitcoin purchase.

Closed letter/question to Satoshi

Satoshi, if you read this please PM me for the closed letter.

Thanks

S2F will be a self fulfilling prophecy

Add me   

addnode=173.95.72.234:41767
addnode=71.87.146.90:42767

I have 6 Mh pointed at the bong at the moment. Might as well do something with these USB miners. 

Did Bongger break?  Stuck at block 3663838

Closed letter to Satoshi.

Hey Satoshi, if you read this drop me a PM for the closed letter.

I'm showing last block was Sept 12th on both of the bonnger wallet PCs.  Are we down? or just me?

"Persons living in the British Virgin Islands will soon be required to pay an additional tax to send their money out of the territory."


https://bvinews.com/govt-introducing-new-fee-to-send-money-abroad-says-premier/?fbclid=IwAR2l9o4SPW0i4G-IgFuTu0NpM4coxiCQO4OqM3gOHVN1-AhTMi6l8HGi-lU


...and this is why we Bitcoin.

Thanks all.  I let the wallet sit for a bit while I went out for dinner and it found a few peers on it's own.  Only 88 weeks behind now!  I'm an old school Bongger.  Been on the bus since May 2014.
 

It's been a few years since I fired up my bongger wallet.  Looking for nodes so I can sync?