Is it illegal for someone to hack my BTC wallet?

[icecube45]

Steal private keys that act is prohibited because it is harmful to others. But it can not be classified to a legal or illegal act, because the legal or illegal an act must have action from the government. While some countries have banned the bitcoin, let use bitcoin, and bitcoin allow. I believe every country has different regulations making it illegal or legal depending on the policy of each country. If you want take action may be easier if a state legalizes bitcoin because in case something would get legal protection, but if the state declares illegal bitcoin be impossible to prosecute because the state had previously been banned.

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[audaciousbeing]

From where I stand, it will be illegal if only you can prove it in law i.e a particular law that covers you and him and also the subject matter which is Bitcoin then you can prove it in law but the issue now is how much has been hacked? that will worth all the trouble to locate the hacker, sue him to court and then make him pay which is now beyond your own power. Even the big hackings with lots of BTCs going down the drain, what happen to it and how far the case has gone?

[Bitcoinsummoner]

From where I stand, it will be illegal if only you can prove it in law i.e a particular law that covers you and him and also the subject matter which is Bitcoin then you can prove it in law but the issue now is how much has been hacked? that will worth all the trouble to locate the hacker, sue him to court and then make him pay which is now beyond your own power. Even the big hackings with lots of BTCs going down the drain, what happen to it and how far the case has gone?

Hackers are thief so i will consider it as illegal by the law or not.. for me it is illegal and if you are hacking an account or btc wallet it is a bad habit..
And you can be arrested by nbi if you caught.
If you are planning to hack it is not a good idea it is better to work or find a job..

[Dmitry.Vastov]

In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.

[diegz]

In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.

Every country has its own cyber crime law, they differ from each other, but some country adopt other countries law, so some might be the same, but most of them only has a small claw and limited to what was written only on the said law, now, if cyber crime law in a certain country was made before the dawn of the bitcoin, then bitcoin wasn't in it, except if something in bitcoin that is mention in it, and only lawyers are the best at linking things just by words. I also think that if there is a revision of said laws, and it includes bitcoin, then there is a chance.

Big question there is, where country will you file your case?

Again, if there is no law prohibiting the hack of bitcoin wallet, then all you can do is cry!!! 

[MANNYKURSH]

of course its illegal

[Zadicar]

In the eyes of people, yes it is. But from the eyes of law, i think that is a different story. Some countries doesnt make a particular rule or law about hacking bitcoin. But it can be considered a cyber crime. Hacking in any other forms is a serious crime. They can be arrested and jailed to prison if its proven. That can be a violation that can be charge to a hacker. I just dont know if bitcoin is in the coverage of that law.

Every country has its own cyber crime law, they differ from each other, but some country adopt other countries law, so some might be the same, but most of them only has a small claw and limited to what was written only on the said law, now, if cyber crime law in a certain country was made before the dawn of the bitcoin, then bitcoin wasn't in it, except if something in bitcoin that is mention in it, and only lawyers are the best at linking things just by words. I also think that if there is a revision of said laws, and it includes bitcoin, then there is a chance.

Big question there is, where country will you file your case?

Again, if there is no law prohibiting the hack of bitcoin wallet, then all you can do is cry!!! 

You do really get the exact point and even we would say that stealing or hacking other bitcoin wallet is very illegal since its considered as stealing but we all know that bitcoin is legalized or something that being hold by the government that they could able to make investigations but we all know theres none. So the best way to do is cry and let go off those coins and you cant do anything about it.

[Silberman]

I my country unauthorized access to computers, aka as hacking is illegal in itself, and stealing digital goods is illegal too, documents, files, account information, so I suppose bitcoin is also included, but the problem is prosecution of those crimes is very difficult to implement.

[Text]

I have no idea about this so I wanted to know it also. All I know is, if you own a BTC address for a certain wallet you are responsible to take care of it. So don't let hackers have a single information about your account. You should keep it secured all the time like what I have done in my blockchain wallet, I applied all the available security features of it.

[audaciousbeing]

Hackers are thief so i will consider it as illegal by the law or not.. for me it is illegal and if you are hacking an account or btc wallet it is a bad habit..
And you can be arrested by nbi if you caught.
If you are planning to hack it is not a good idea it is better to work or find a job..

Yes it is true that they are thief but that is your opinion and not general neither is it binding on anyone and moreover they dont care about your opinion of course if they do, they woudnt continue hacking but the issue is that my opinion about a thief does not bring him to book or face justice. Its the legal and if that part is not established, every other things is just a wish that cant move dust.

[morgand]

I'm not clear on this one point.  If somebody got a hold of my private key and moved funds from an address that I claimed on the ledger, is that against the law?  At what point could that be considered a crime?  For example, if they hacked into my machine and stolen the private key; if they sniped the pk while snooping on a public access connection; brute forced the pk into existence; or just plane snapped a shot of my qr code over my shoulder....ect  In which of those examples could I pursue prosecution for the theft of my coin?  

My country does not have a law about it, they dont even know about bitcoin. So thats not illegal in my country. i think
but hacking to machine and stole the private key is too hard work making it..
My true story about hacked is, when i press ctrl+c/copy my btc address..everything i ctrl+v/paste is different btc address..
i realize an app/link auto installing registry about paste thing..so beware guys..

[zeze18]

This may be my opinion,, whatever form hack is theft and not justified, even if the act was illegal and not justified but to entrap him with the rule of law is a bit complicated, of course, go back to the state where the rules and regulations of legal sanction applied in the country to the hack

[TastyChillySauce00]

This may be my opinion,, whatever form hack is theft and not justified, even if the act was illegal and not justified but to entrap him with the rule of law is a bit complicated, of course, go back to the state where the rules and regulations of legal sanction applied in the country to the hack

That's really a problem related to any hacking activities in the digital world. Most of the government in this world still lack of regulation about these hacking activities thus we're still weak and need to be really aware when connecting to the internet. Maybe it's because gathering proof in the digital world related to hacking activities which are done by the hackers still hard and most of the hackers are smart enough to not leaving their footstep so we need solution about this problem in the future.

[Amoson]

Hacking has been illegal for anything not only bitcoin.
Many investors had suggested to have more clear rules for bitcoins so that bitcoin can be controlled by the law.
Now We can only protect ourself with our security skills in this forum.

[sportis]

   On my little knowledge I believe that all of the above questions @OP asked has only one answer. Proof/evidence. Someone must proof that the hacker has compromise his system. Furthermore, must proof that has legal right on these bitcoins because hacker can claim that he owns these bitcoins and he is not a criminal. These are very difficult legal questions and an experienced attorney must be asked.
  
   There is an attorney in the forum and @OP can ask him. But really this is a very interesting question and the four cases too.

   The topic is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1724798.msg17379531#msg17379531

[dfox101]

lol, any hack is illegal, but do the hackers care? if they do care they won't do this. Clearly they don't care and they do it for money or curiosity. It's like rob a bank, it is illegal but still there are people doing it.

[canhchuacaro1]

My question presented itself because my funds were compromised by a site which had THEIR security compromised which allowed the attackers to intercept my emails "man in the middle."  They must've gone thru my emails and found some attachments with jsons  files....While they didn't hack my machine directly, they did acquire direct access to some of my clients before I could encrypt the pk's....which are now theirs because they encrypted them before I had the chance.  So, if they have control of the pk, then they own the money, and I could not find any laws that stated otherwise.  It seems to me that deference goes to whoever controls the private key and there isn't much that can be done about that accept the application of preemptive security measures....but sometimes preemptive measures are not effective <--- especially with MITM attacks.

[Liad.Services]

It is illegal to hack any kind of wallet.

But it is going to be a nightmare to proof that one person is the hacker and it is going to be a nightmare to make him pay for it as bitcoin is not considered as a legal currency.

Just keep your wallet safe.

[cryptoanalyzer]

Dude....hacking anywhere in the world is considered a theft. Its trespassing therefore illegal

[rajasumi3]

yes in our country it is considered as theft ,it is called hacking .but getting back your coins is a hard task as they have distributed the coins in different places with different keys ,and u could file a report about it  .