I got hacked , All my Bitcoin and Litecoin lost

[salmanahmedone]

Let this be a lesson to everyone to keep your street smarts about you: why would somebody email you from a generic domain with a job offer without a good story? What is interactivebrokers.com anyway, does it have a homepage? haha... You downloaded and opened a lot of stuff through email, you kind of deserve it. At least you checked if the email was spoofed. Better luck next time.

first things first. You should be careful on the first place. Keep your computer secure and strong password for your PC and the wallet itself.
Do not share the password with your trusted friends also and not to write the password on the paper etc. Follow the basic rules of protection and you will see its almost impossible to hack.
We just get hacked and blame others without thinking our careless mistakes first.

[kpitti]

It`s sad to hear what happen to you. I am sorry.
This is good example what not to do and why. Anyone can be a victim as I think number of people has good amount of Bitcoins stored in their computer which is used for "daily" work with emails and accessign Internet.
I would recommend to use tezor or even paper wallet.

[Adrorecia]

Thats such a stupid thing. Don't let anyone go on you're computer or you have to put
 personal passwords and things in a secret place.
every information they know about you can be used to hack.

[pereira4]

I still don't get how the hackers managed to get his wallet password. Was he using Bitcoin Core or something else? It's pretty strange that they quickly managed to move funds, if the wallet was indeed encrypted, unless that .pps file he is talking about contained a keylogger or something? but he would have needed to type the password for them to get the log.
Did you type the password to your wallet after opening anything suspicious?

[jackg]

I just realised something!

If he sent email addresses it is possible to trace his IP.
It is then possible to contact his internet provider and disable his internet.
Ask first before putting a requrest with hs internet provider (he may want to return your coins rather than being thrown offline).

[silentkiller]

im sorry for your lost, next time be sure to make strong passwords dont use your email passwords.
make a 2 authentication factor.. and the last one dont install any app which you do not know what it is.

[btccashacc]

im sorry for your lost, next time be sure to make strong passwords dont use your email passwords.
make a 2 authentication factor.. and the last one dont install any app which you do not know what it is.

I'm really sorry for your lost, 2 authentication factor. might be an excelent choice for secure our bitcoin, after reading this thread, i think i should used different pc for install app and storing my bitcoin.
Too many keyloger and shitty app out there.

[MingLee]

im sorry for your lost, next time be sure to make strong passwords dont use your email passwords.
make a 2 authentication factor.. and the last one dont install any app which you do not know what it is.

I'm really sorry for your lost, 2 authentication factor. might be an excelent choice for secure our bitcoin, after reading this thread, i think i should used different pc for install app and storing my bitcoin.
Too many keyloger and shitty app out there.

There are always shitty apps out there, and not everyone is intent on making their money through an honest day's work.

If you ever store your Bitcoin on a PC (or even an online wallet), try to do it on a fresh PC. That way there will be basically nothing at risk.

Or at the very least, don't visit anything that could be remotely sketchy on your login/storage PC. Try to keep it shut down as much as possible.

[defcon23]

could you provide me the ip from the source of the email you have received from this guy ?
just sent it me via PM . Thanx .   

[helloeverybody]

Seems to be quite a few hacks on bitcoin wallets the last few days, I wonder if its just coincidence that we are hearing about it at the same time or if its being orchestrated by the same person? Either way its very unfortunate to lose so much money to some scum bag.

[mayax]

Seems to be quite a few hacks on bitcoin wallets the last few days, I wonder if its just coincidence that we are hearing about it at the same time or if its being orchestrated by the same person? Either way its very unfortunate to lose so much money to some scum bag.

it's so frustrating because you cannot make any chargeback. these types of incidents are making the normal people to stay away of any e-currency, including BTC.

[defcon23]

Seems to be quite a few hacks on bitcoin wallets the last few days, I wonder if its just coincidence that we are hearing about it at the same time or if its being orchestrated by the same person? Either way its very unfortunate to lose so much money to some scum bag.

yeah... i saw a guy with 10k $ lost ... just on today...

[mayax]

Seems to be quite a few hacks on bitcoin wallets the last few days, I wonder if its just coincidence that we are hearing about it at the same time or if its being orchestrated by the same person? Either way its very unfortunate to lose so much money to some scum bag.

yeah... i saw a guy with 10k $ lost ... just on today...

10k is peanuts... the guy who opened this thread lost 300K

[Nimbulan]

Seems to be quite a few hacks on bitcoin wallets the last few days, I wonder if its just coincidence that we are hearing about it at the same time or if its being orchestrated by the same person? Either way its very unfortunate to lose so much money to some scum bag.

yeah... i saw a guy with 10k $ lost ... just on today...

10k is peanuts... the guy who opened this thread lost 300K

well 10 thousand dollars is not a small amount of money to be honest and i think that it is a pretty big loss too that would significantly change my life in my opinion

im sorry about your loss, thats a vast amount of money and i would definitely be really sad if i have lost that much money just because of some kind of a hack, i wish you will somehow get it back

[instacalm]

If this is true... damn.

[glendall]

425 btc! Holy crap. That's a lot of money.

I'm really sorry man, that's terrible.

Also sorry, but the police will be just about useless here. It is hard enough to get them to do anything if something physical was stolen, but bitcoin, they won't even spend 15 minutes on, even if it is 100,000's of dollars. Not trying to be a douche but just realistic.  If there is a 'cyber police' in Canada is probably about 3 or 4 guys actually investigating crimes and they'd only be servicing large companies, not individuals.

[glendall]

I'm pretty sure this is labled as a civil matter in canada. I bought a bunch of speakers off of the back of a van once. The police were almost laughing at me when I called to report that i've been scammed. 

Haha I fell for that one like 15 years ago when I was dumb and young. I wonder if its the same scam or even the same guys.

[evergrow]

Also sorry, but the police will be just about useless here.

Which is why scammers adore Bitcoin. Sad but true imo

[ebliever]

If the folks who just accidentally sent 291 BTC as a mining fee don't come forward (there's some reason to believe it was a mixing service, and thus may have been criminals involved who won't want to come forward), maybe some of the 291 BTC can be allocated to folks like in the OP here. (The Coindesk article indicated the miners involved were offering to donate at least some of it, so why not for something like this?)

(For those who didn't see it... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1451924.0)

[Heater]

I just read the whole thread and as far as I can tell you never told us what wallet you were using.

I would really like to know.

I hope somehow the bad guys get caught.