Someone sent my bitcoins

[cateye]

Hi,

I have bitcoin core wallet, and today i saw that someone sent all of my bitcoins!
how can i bring them back? what happend?

https://ibb.co/cpFnJ6

can someone please help?


Thank you so much

[g4vinshreds]

You most likely have malware on your computer as we speak that's stealing your coins and logging passwords. You need to remove it,  as for the bitcoin it's lost forever, as bitcoin is non reversible.

[cateye]

oh no... i worked so hard for them
can i get them back somehow?
can i find him?
how can i find the malware?

[g4vinshreds]

oh no... i worked so hard for them
can i get them back somehow?
can i find him?

If it's a remote administrator tool on your computer like I believe it is, you're screwed.  Sorry to tell you.  I can help you remove it for free,  but you likely will never see the coins again =(

[ranochigo]

oh no... i worked so hard for them

An expensive lesson then.

can i get them back somehow?

Probably not. Unless you can somehow get the hacker to return you the money which is darn near impossible.

can i find him?

You can try to analyse the address that it was sent to. It will be extremely hard.

how can i find the malware?

You can use an anti-virus to scan it. The only thing I'll recommend is to wipe your computer and change every single of your passwords.

[g4vinshreds]

oh no... i worked so hard for them

An expensive lesson then.

can i get them back somehow?

Probably not. Unless you can somehow get the hacker to return you the money which is darn near impossible.

can i find him?

You can try to analyse the address that it was sent to. It will be extremely hard.

how can i find the malware?

You can use an anti-virus to scan it. The only thing I'll recommend is to wipe your computer and change every single of your passwords.

This.  Either clean your pc and check all your startup items or wipe your drive.  You at some point downloaded malware. The criminal behind this then stole your 3k worth of btc.  =(

[cateye]

Thank you for helping me, I really feel bad about it
I have updated Kaspersky internet security I thought it is the best tool + I am using password manager so i don't know if he have the passwords
I need to scan my whole computer with all the drives? or just the wallet?


I just can't believe it! he is a criminal that stole my money and i can't do nothing about it?

[sourjain]

Make sure to keep your passwords and private key confidential do not share also when you have coins enough that you can't afford to loss keep them in paper wallet or hardware wallet.

[crairezx20]

Thank you for helping me, I really feel bad about it
I have updated Kaspersky internet security I thought it is the best tool + I am using password manager so i don't know if he have the passwords
I need to scan my whole computer with all the drives? or just the wallet?


I just can't believe it! he is a criminal that stole my money and i can't do nothing about it?

You should scan the entire hard drive not only the wallet. to make sure that there is no other virus and malware install in your PC.
And i suggest to you to use kaspersky total security because its more secured and cryptocurrency supported than internet security that their priority is to keep safe your internet transmitting or receiving data ..
I hope that you learn now .. put also a password to your electrum and check no keyloggers are open check it in task manager as admin so that you can see  all running apps..

[w5pn73]

I would do a full scan with your anti virus/malware software, and as well all know transactions are irreversible.

[Trofo]

Thank you for helping me, I really feel bad about it
I have updated Kaspersky internet security I thought it is the best tool + I am using password manager so i don't know if he have the passwords
I need to scan my whole computer with all the drives? or just the wallet?


I just can't believe it! he is a criminal that stole my money and i can't do nothing about it?

To the best of my knowledge most antivirus software doesn't even detect malware or trojans. They are only good at stopping viruses. If it happened to me I would format the drive and do a clean windows install before keeping any crypto wallets on it again.

Have you recently installed some new altcoin wallet. There is a lot of altcoin airdrops at the moment and at least half of them are scams and few of them are even infected with trojans.

[Hamphser]

Thank you for helping me, I really feel bad about it
I have updated Kaspersky internet security I thought it is the best tool + I am using password manager so i don't know if he have the passwords
I need to scan my whole computer with all the drives? or just the wallet?


I just can't believe it! he is a criminal that stole my money and i can't do nothing about it?

To the best of my knowledge most antivirus software doesn't even detect malware or trojans. They are only good at stopping viruses. If it happened to me I would format the drive and do a clean windows install before keeping any crypto wallets on it again.

Have you recently installed some new altcoin wallet. There is a lot of altcoin airdrops at the moment and at least half of them are scams and few of them are even infected with trojans.

Scanning now with your drive and your system is already useless now if your antivirus didnt even detect it out then you wont even know or traced on where those virus lurking in your system.If you are already hacked then the best thing to do is reformat your system install fresh os and start all over again.As i have seen those earnings came from mining and which is sad that losing up 0.6 balance does really hurt on my side.This is why we should really be careful on downloading stuffs in the internet which would potentially infect our computer and stole those precious bitcoins we do have.

[warningsigns]

No chance of seeing your bitcoins returned to your wallet. Bitcoin by nature is irreversible which is good in many ways but also bad news for situations like yours.

The best way forward is to accept you lost them and to observe safer ways of storing your bitcoins. Start by cleaning your hard drive and installing the latest anti-virus and malware defense systems. That aside, you should also be careful when clicking on external links or be aware of phishing redirects sent by email (or even by SMS).

When accessing your wallet on public wifi networks, be careful too. Fake wifi networks snoop on people's laptops and phones these days. If you are not careful, they can actually install stuff on your computer without you even being aware of it.

[vincentvincent]

use malwarebytes.org to download the free version of malwarebytes.
Since your existing antivirus software failed to protect you I think scanning with malwarebytes will help you to find what malware you might have.

[Rhrmwn]

*Tips
- recheck the wallet address, if you want sending bitcoin.
- don't install malware apps, re-check before install

bitcoin currency have high risk level. if you lose it, you'll never get it back.

[akirasendo17]

I dont really understand the english but from what i read you insert a wrong address
and send your bitcoin to it,
we'll firstly i think you will not be able to get your btc
so instead of posting, you can just buy or get a campaign , because the guy who gets your bitcoin will
never send it back to you

[bob123]

In this case you won't see your coins again. But before you begin to store new coins on this PC you should do these things:

• Do a full scan of your pc
• Wipe your hard drive after backing up your improtant data
• Fresh install of Windows + get anti virus

Afterwards you can start using a wallet again. But start with small amounts in case of it not being just a simple virus but a root kit.

[Getcoinsite]

oh no... i worked so hard for them

An expensive lesson then.

can i get them back somehow?

Probably not. Unless you can somehow get the hacker to return you the money which is darn near impossible.

can i find him?

You can try to analyse the address that it was sent to. It will be extremely hard.

how can i find the malware?

You can use an anti-virus to scan it. The only thing I'll recommend is to wipe your computer and change every single of your passwords.

For the benefits of us here,would you pls enlighten how this MALWARE works,how this got inside our computer system..and how can we prevent this.,and is malware goes to the gadgets?like mobile ,ipads,or tablets?

[Za1n]

I am sorry to say this, but as others have said your Bitcoins are lost and you are unlikely to get them back or even be able to trace them to the hacker.

I agree that wiping your computer is probably prudent, as well as changing *all* of your passwords.

Since you do not know what type of virus or Trojan you had I would maybe even go so far as to suggest installing to a new hard drive. A low level format of the hard drive might clean it, but this is more technical and not to be confused with the quick high level format often performed when reinstalling a OS.

If you are extremely paranoid, which you probably should be as you have already be targeted, I would even suggest re-flashing your motherboard BIOS with a new clean version. Of course you cannot trust your current PC to download and write the image to a flash drive, so you will need to do this on a known clean computer.

Finally, do not store Bitcoin, or any Cryptocurrency for that matter, on your main computer that you use for your daily activities. Get a hardware wallet instead, such as the Ledger Nano S. They are less than $100 and well worth the price as even one Bitcoin is now worth $6000.

[JayT22]

once ur btc are gone u cant get them back ;-(
this must be hard feeling for u at the moment,but for the future u should only use the safest methods for secure holding  all of ur btc and other cryptos.
people wont stop trying to steal coins this can hit everyone of us.