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February 16, 2015, 04:59:17 PM Last edit: February 17, 2015, 12:17:32 AM by ebliever |
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Pulled up my multi-bit wallet this morning and discovered an outbound transaction of 1.44 BTC at 1:34 AM (local time) on Feb. 14. Which was interesting because it matches the amount of 1.44 BTC I had transferred in from my Coinbase account on Feb. 6. I had ~0.75 BTC left in the wallet that was untouched. (Which I've now moved, obviously.)
The address the 1.44 BTC was sent to was 1Jfgv6ropgo1f2fE5UAym7Zt6wCb6QmTk9. It appears to have a lot of activity on the blockchain, though I'm not very skilled at interpreting any of it.
I'm sure I didn't make the 2/14 transaction, and equally sure my wallet/computer was not physically compromised. So that leaves some kind of malware attack that was able to access my multi-bit wallet. But why then was only the 1.44 BTC taken and not the full amount in the wallet?
Is there anything I can do to investigate this further? Who would I even contact to report the theft? Local police department? (Small rural town, I can imagine how useful that will be...)
With all the yelling recently about not using exchanges and relying on local wallets, I find it ironic that the first direct personal loss I've suffered was from a personal wallet. I'm not a security guru but thought I was following the reasonable protocols (albeit not the more extreme ones) to secure it and my system from intrusion. I guess I missed something somewhere. Would the details above, or anything else I can provide, give any clues as to how my wallet was compromised? I'll be running some extra A-V scans when I get home tonight obviously, as well as checking out my work laptop where I had a copy of the wallet.
Glad I didn't lose more, but frustrated at this loss. BTC can't go mainstream if the average Joe can't feel their funds are safe.
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