A friend of me got hacked and lost 3000waves

[milewilda]

How come the hacker did plushed all your waves, there's still 799.55306958 WAVES inside, your friend needs to login to get that amount back at least.

There are indeed projects in waves that are asking for private keys which is why I don't join on it particularly the waves.exchange where you can stake and earn weekly. If it asked for a private key, you may really be cautious.

I thought there are just 1,78 waves in the wallet...
Waves is a great and serious project.
He just logged in on a Phishing site

Such big mistake for someone who do really get fooled by a phishing site. 3000 Waves value into its current price ($9.80) which is totaled almost $30k which this one
is really expensive mistake that he had done.Sent out cryptos cant really be retrieved back even though you do know on where those coins landed on neither on a personal
wallet or directly go to an exchange wallet but there nothing you can do but accept his lost of funds and on next time these will really be reminding him off
that wallet security and common sense does really play a great role.

[Shasha80]

My advice is that your friends have to move on, I know 3000 waves is quite a large number. But it is very difficult to trace the hacker's wallet,
It takes the help of someone who does have good programming skills to trace the address. If your country legalizes cryptocurrency, you can
tell your friends to ask the police for help. Because usually the police have a cyber crime division, which deals with hacking problems in
the internet world. Make this a lesson for your friends, to be more careful in saving your coins. Always keep it in a wallet with a good security system,
and don't forget to use anti-malware on the device you normally use. Then do not carelessly click the link that is suspicious or unknown.

[CutePanda]

how can it happen?
before they hack your wallet, they need authenticator or your private key to send to that wallet,
it maybe you clicked a phising site or maybe someone took your private key in your pc.
i'm so sorry for your loss, let's cheer up and be more careful from now on.
there's nothing you can do at this point.

[gabbie2010]

Hacking and stealing of coins is rampant these days probably it is due high sophistication of hackers where many unsuspecting coin hodlers might not be aware that their PC or Laptop is already vulnerable, I had personally experienced such such attack when I copied and paste the wallet address of my recipient to send some coins however after pasting it copied a completely unknown address it was diligence that saved me from sending my coins to this scammer probably  your friend had a similar experience that lead to stealing of 300 WAVES which a huge amount of coin.

[shoreno]

i check the address via waves explorer and i cant find any info on the owner of that address but i can see his waves balance are around 700 waves , it could be possible that he already send the rest of the waves to another address ? but why i cant see that on his past transactions but all i see are different coins such as usdt , ltc , monero and so on . the guy could be a big person because he can be able to transact good amounts of different coins to other addreses but in regards to your friends lost , you cant do anything about that but tell your friend to be extra careful next time .

[target]

how does it happen? which wallet your friend used?. If wallet exchange you can contact exchange support. if non-custodial wallet nothing to do, this means the hacker owns your friend private key, you can't take it back 3000 waves, you have to contact the local  police.

He restored his account with his seed online.
He probably used a fake side.
At the same day someone canceled the leasing sold his 3k waves in btc and send the btc to the address...
Thank you

Seems your friend opened a phishing site. I don't click links when visiting websites, I would rather type the whole address and even bookmark websites I often visit for my own security. There is nothing else you can do even if you report it to the authorities. Charge it to experience and learn from it.

Not learning from it is the worse that could happen. His friend decided to invest in WAVES, he must have a good understanding of the project that he put a huge amount for it. Maybe he also needs to bank knowledge of securing tokens and avoid hacks and fishing. The advice is still not too late, I'm sure his friend will still invest in some other projects.

[adzino]

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What should he do now?
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Nothing. He can't do anything. He lost his tokens and won't be able to get it back (unless the hacker feels bad and returns it to him which I doubt will ever happen). One thing he can do is to know how he got hacked. I bet he stored his tokens in an online wallet or an exchange. Or maybe in a computer that's infected. Let this be a lesson to him. Tell him to learn from here and in the future to make sure all his accounts and wallets where he stores his tokens/coins are secured and safe.
Not worth regretting about it. Tell him to move on and start all over agai.

[semobo]

Hello.
A friend of me got hacked and lost 3k waves.
The Waves was send to this address :
3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66
What should he do now?
Does anyone know this address?
Best wishes and thanks.

Crypto transactions are irreversible and anonymous so there is no identity linked with crypto addresses so it is not possible to find who hacked the wallet, but it is important to find how he was hacked to save if there are any coins stored on the same device where the waves were stolen.

Ask him to scan his device with antivirus to find any malicious app or files which will be injected by hackers to steal funds via spam emails.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Just try to trace the transaction and if the hacker happens to send those waves to exchange you can then contact the exchange to freeze the wallet immediately but of course it's gonna be complicated and there's no guarantee that you can get your money back or the exchange willing to freeze the account.
But, if he's using P2P then it's as good as gone, always enable security layer to your wallet (2fa, etc) if you don't want thing like this to repeat again. So many malwares out there.