Laptop Stolen with Bitcoin Wallet

[wielkiemonety]

I'm glad to hear that you back up everything properly. Thankfully in this situation you've done what you could, and hopefully all will be recovered. This is a prime example of why sometimes it's best to be paranoid in certain cases, helps protect you against bad things in the future.

[bjbear123]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

No your funds are not safe mate because the recovery words just duplicate the old wallet. You need to physically create a new wallet and transfer all funds over, do it before the thief does, Good luck !

[cosmicart]

i think you should secure your wallets with 2fa.

[Pinkris128]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

Well, you are lucky enough if your bitcoin is not stolen because the person who stole your laptop doesnt have a knowledge about bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. If you want to be sure that your bitcoin will not be stolen, you can create a new wallet and transfer all of your bitcoin there. In that way, you can easily secure all of your bitcoin again and you dont need to worry. Just be careful next time especially to your belongings.

[Babylon]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

If you already changed the password, then there is no more problem. But, if you are not still contented, try to transfer your Bitcoin to another wallet. Or, enable a two-factor authentication if it is possible in Electrum. If you do not want to transfer your Bitcoin and two-factor authentication is not available, all you have to do is to hope that the person who had stolen your laptop does not know anything about Bitcoin.

[jhamz03]

For me the best simple way to avoid it is just by making another wallet and transfer all your bitcoins to a new safer wallet. But if you dont want to make another wallet just change your wallet password that it should not be found any hint information on your stolen laptop.

[blockman]

Nice, good thing that you have the back up for those seeds. Even though that stolen laptop has electrum on it, the question is did you put your password somewhere there on your desktop or any folders? If not, you don't have to worry about it the robber can't access on it and it's already done that you had successfully logged in to another machine. Your bitcoins are safe, change your password, get a new wallet to generate new seeds. I just want to ask that how did your laptop stolen?

[drwhobox]

The best thing to do with your funds are restore it at a new wallet then transfer your funds to a new wallet change the recovery infoes and private stuffs. Just move really quick at transfering your funds.

[syamster]

I'm glad to hear that you back up everything properly. Thankfully in this situation you've done what you could, and hopefully all will be recovered. This is a prime example of why sometimes it's best to be paranoid in certain cases, helps protect you against bad things in the future.

Bitcoin is very easy to carry with yourself even when you want to carry laptop with your self-nothing will happen in case of you lose your laptop r someone steel it from you still your bitcoin will be safe because everyone have his own I’d and password and its very safe and even it happen with me I left my laptop in a restaurant and I got my laptop after three days and my bitcoin was safe nothing happen to them so I think no need to worry about anything.

[tippytoes]

The pieces of advice here are repeated so many times already. So I'm wondering, did he recover already his funds? Did he transfer all his coins to his new wallet?

[YoungMaster]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

If you are still worrying your bitcoin, Try to create a new wallet and move all over your bitcoin to the new wallet.
I think this decision will completely secure your bitcoin.

[ladydark]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

Unless you have not saved your seed or password in any folder of your wallet,your bitcoins are safe enough now.But what is the problem is that electrum wallet opens automatically when it is opened and it does not ask for seed.But without your password,he could not send your bitcoins away.So,better download a new wallet and transfer your bitcoins from old wallet to the new one.

[coinoberg]

I'm glad to hear that you back up everything properly. Thankfully in this situation you've done what you could, and hopefully all will be recovered. This is a prime example of why sometimes it's best to be paranoid in certain cases, helps protect you against bad things in the future.

Let it be a big lessons learn for everybody who is reading this thread. We should always make sure that we are taking backups regularly son in this kind of laptop stolen or crashed cases doesn't effect us deeply.

[RVA]

It is best to use an authenticator then you will be exactly rooted in the safety of your wallet

[ObroQ]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

For safety reasons you should change your wallet and transfer all your crypto to that new wallet.

[dimonstration]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

if the one who stole your laptop and he dont have any knowledge about bitcoin this may look safe so the best thing to do is after this may happen even in anyone of us this could be some lesson for make sure that you may have backup files if you may have the pc and also transfer everything before that they may see a lot of information about your coin for. but i think and for my opinion your bitcoin may look safe even your laptop may stole for.

[nicster551]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

Just pray that the one who took your laptop does not understand any about crypto. But I hope that you have something that would still access your account.

[teejaymuna]

I suggest you create a new wallet and transfer all your BTC to that wallet. That way you are double sure that you BTC is safe. You can also try to document your wallet details on a paper and keep somewhere safe so that you do get into panick should something like this happen in the future.

[supermine]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

if the one who stole your laptop and he dont have any knowledge about bitcoin this may look safe so the best thing to do is after this may happen even in anyone of us this could be some lesson for make sure that you may have backup files if you may have the pc and also transfer everything before that they may see a lot of information about your coin for. but i think and for my opinion your bitcoin may look safe even your laptop may stole for.

Now bitcoin was famous all around the world then before,so the first thing he needs to do is that transfer all the bitcoins to a new wallet even the fee is little bit higher it is important to do that with priority fee to keep secure your bitcoins.And it is always better to keep separate computer system for keeping crypto currencies then it will full protection to your crypto and make sure your system is always offline other than in transaction or phishing links will steal the informations.

[btcdepo]

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

No your funds are not safe mate because the recovery words just duplicate the old wallet. You need to physically create a new wallet and transfer all funds over, do it before the thief does, Good luck !

Yes you should be very fast so you get your coins / tokens before the thies gets. I see again how important to take full backups regularly especially for us, crypto currency investors. otherwise it can be a real catastrophe.