Electrum BUG - all Bitcoins stolen

[bob123]

i have this problem too.
i have install electrum 3.0.3 at 26.01.2018
after 2 days i have see a output transaction and all my bitcoin lost.
don't use electrum! shit!

From where you downloaded? Did you checked the PGP signature?

from official site and not 3.0.3 version but 3.0.5

Version 3.0.5 didn't contain any vulnerability.
The most probable scenario is that your pc got infected by malware which led to a theft of your coins.
Did you check the signature? Or at least comparing the hashes? This could exclude a malicious version of electrum.
Was your wallet password protected?

You should definetely run some anti virus checks.

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[Sonajin_Coin]

It's really hard to say what happened but very sorry to the OP that it did.  Could it be that the electrum site was hacked or the more likely possibility others mentioned that the poor OP visited a very good looking scam site?
It's time to make it easy to secure cryptocurrencies such as wallets or settings in the blockchain that require multisignatories on certain amounts in total per transaction and in a monthly period.  Even e-mail confirmation from one or two signatories would increase security and prevent these kinds of thefts.

[pooya87]

Could it be that the electrum site was hacked

the possibility of this is extremely small because if electrum.org was actually hacked then we would have heard about it already!

It's time to make it easy to secure cryptocurrencies such as wallets or settings in the blockchain that require multisignatories on certain amounts in total per transaction and in a monthly period.  Even e-mail confirmation from one or two signatories would increase security and prevent these kinds of thefts.

i disagree. we do not need either of these. we need people to learn more before they jump on board. and the basics are simple. and by the way in case you download a wrong wallet from a malicious website multisignature is still not going to save you because the wallet is still using the attacker's seed and he still is going to have access to your funds.
and restricting the amounts per transaction and things like that is simply not possible because bitcoin needs to stay permission-less.

[globe-biz]

i feel sorry for people who think antivirus keeps people safe, antivirus in many cases is a virus

[adaseb]

Why is it that people come here, saying "Electrum is scam, bitcoins stolen" and yet they never give the full story.

It would really help if they posted where they downloaded it, the hash of the executable file, if they kept it on an online PC or offline.

We would investigate and help them out. But they usually never come back to comment.

[HCP]

Why is it that people come here, saying "Electrum is scam, bitcoins stolen" and yet they never give the full story.
It would really help if they posted where they downloaded it, the hash of the executable file, if they kept it on an online PC or offline.
We would investigate and help them out. But they usually never come back to comment.

Generally... if they're smart enough to be able to work out what the hash of the executable file is... or even know what a "hash" is, they'll be smart enough to know how to find the official Electrum website and not be fooled by the scam sites in the first place.

Also, the people who generally fall for the scam versions of Electrum etc, don't really know that this information is helpful for people trying to help them out... they only know they've lost their coins and are obviously angry and upset and just want to vent.

I would not be surprised if the general sequence of events is:

1. "Newbie" user claims Electrum is a scam and stole their BTC
2. Helpful users here ask the usual "where did you download it from? what version was it? did you run malware/virus scans?" questions
3. Victim goes off to find the information requested and discovers they've downloaded a scam version from a scam site
4. Victim is too embarrassed to come back and admit what has happened and disappears into the Ether

[pooya87]

Why is it that people come here, saying "Electrum is scam, bitcoins stolen" and yet they never give the full story.

It would really help if they posted where they downloaded it, the hash of the executable file, if they kept it on an online PC or offline.

We would investigate and help them out. But they usually never come back to comment.

those who don't come back usually have made a silly mistake. for example many don't let their wallet sync so they don't see their funds, then they think they have been robbed. when it is fixed they forget about everything and go away.
but it is also possible that they got if fixed elsewhere. there are other forums like reddit[1], there is Github[2], there is also an IRC channel[3] for Electrum. and when you fix it somewhere else you don't just go back to a random forum you visited once (bitcointalk) and update a topic you made with a throwaway account!
of course there is always an occasional troll too!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/
[2] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues
[3] irc://irc.freenode.net/electrum