Bitcoin from electrum wallet stolen

[fuckcrypto]

Someone stole on tuesday 16.13 BTC from my electrum wallet

the coins were here

162Q35GC13aFaF6XVRpibVddpjSCbsFkaF

and now most of the coins are here now
1K44FRM82amtFBNY6kcJaMb5uUMKDtpoKN

I will pay 3 BTC reward if you can help me track them down or if you can get me the coins back


I had my wallet.dat file encrypted and my password wasnt saved anywhere, I also use ubuntu on my machine so, I would like to know how they were able t steal my coins.

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[d3vnull]

Electrum was used on which OS ?

Do you have your electrum  in your main computer ?

You should keep those huge amount in a separated wallet, cheap computer, used only for this purpose and disconnected from internet  (Linux as OS to increase the security)

How they did ? Can't say, but most probably by a backdoor in your computer... You can't trust the security of any OS today, 0day are used by many shady security group, gov and more...

Simple fact today, you want your device / computer secure ? Don't connect it to internet (In your case, don't let a huge amount in a wallet always accessible by internet)

[HCP]

Did you attempt to claim BitcoinGold at all using myBTGWallet.com or "Electron Gold"? It has been proven that both of these "walelts" were are scams and have been leaking private keys/seeds and coins have been stolen.

[fuckcrypto]

Im using ubuntu 16.04

no i never tried to claim any BTG or any other coin

[equator]

Seeing your comment, one thing is sure that if you have not downloaded any file or filled any online document, then only known person who have access to your computer have stolen it. Or else one more option is if you have used the wallet when someone was near you and have note down your password and then stole it. So this steal has happened due to your negligence. Because never use your wallet on other persons machine, or if any one is near you never open your wallet. That is why it is told that use the machine separately for this type of wallet which you are holding high volume of bitcoins.

[NeuroticFish]

I have a different theory, but somebody smarter than me should check for this because I don't know how.

If you reuse the same (one) address and the wallet software is not perfectly well done, you may end up "reusing R value". That's something about signing the transactions.
The result is that somebody smart enough can track that down and "recover" your private key, getting access to your funds.

Maybe you could look here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.0 and ask the guy there if this was indeed what happened to you. That thread is locked, but maybe you can PM and ask nicely.

[fuckcrypto]

Seeing your comment, one thing is sure that if you have not downloaded any file or filled any online document, then only known person who have access to your computer have stolen it. Or else one more option is if you have used the wallet when someone was near you and have note down your password and then stole it. So this steal has happened due to your negligence. Because never use your wallet on other persons machine, or if any one is near you never open your wallet. That is why it is told that use the machine separately for this type of wallet which you are holding high volume of bitcoins.

I definitly know that noone has used my computer and the weird part is that nothing else on my computer seems to be infected so far, not my online platforms i use and have thousands of $ on there(only password protected) I also had a different wallet on my laptop with 501 btc in it ll unaffected.

the only thing affected is my electrum wallet which was encrypted and no password has been written down anywhere

[NghiaSE]

I definitly know that noone has used my computer and the weird part is that nothing else on my computer seems to be infected so far, not my online platforms i use and have thousands of $ on there(only password protected) I also had a different wallet on my laptop with 501 btc in it ll unaffected.

the only thing affected is my electrum wallet which was encrypted and no password has been written down anywhere

Where did you download your Electrum software from?

electrum.org is the only authentic website. Some scammers they pay Google so that their results will be #1,#2...& so on on Google search.

Also, you should never store your private keys/seeds on an online computer. Online computer NEVER has any private keys at all.

On an "Always offline computer": do only 2 things 1) Create wallet  2) sign transaction

Online computer: watch only wallet to see your BTC balance (you can import PUBLIC master key when you create a wallet here), if you want to send BTC to an address, create a transaction here, it will be UNSIGNED transaction.

Move the Unsigned transaction above to the "Always offline computer" and use Electrum there to Sign the transaction to make it Signed transaction

Move the signed transaction file back to the online computer and broadcast the transaction.

Watch for confirmation on blockchain.info or electrum watch only

Details here: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/coldstorage.html

[Lucius]

Someone stole on tuesday 16.13 BTC from my electrum wallet

the coins were here

162Q35GC13aFaF6XVRpibVddpjSCbsFkaF

and now most of the coins are here now
1K44FRM82amtFBNY6kcJaMb5uUMKDtpoKN

I will pay 3 BTC reward if you can help me track them down or if you can get me the coins back


I had my wallet.dat file encrypted and my password wasnt saved anywhere, I also use ubuntu on my machine so, I would like to know how they were able t steal my coins.

You've already opened thread and ask same question here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2436882.0

Unfortunately chance of getting back your BTC is almost 0,only if hacker return coins to you/or if he made a mistake and left some trace so that you can take some measures.So you really need a miracle to change this bad situation to your advantage.

In first thread you say 16.2 BTC is stolen,now you say it is 16.13BTC and this is the third account you are using for bringing this issue?