Are you afraid of hackers?

[Crypington]

I don’t think “afraid” is the right word.  I’d say that I am aware of the risks and I am vigilant and take precautions to minimize my exposure.  

Some of my rules to avoid hackers:

1.  Don’t download any new wallets for airdrops.
2.  Don’t download any new wallets for forks until they are community vetted, open source.
3.  Don’t trust any website, especially when private keys are involved.
4.  Don’t leave coins on an exchange or online wallet.
5.  Keep virus software up to date.
6.  Keep transfers to a minimum.
7.  Don’t use your wallets with public WIFI.
8.  Encrypt your wallets, and use unique passwords and user names for your wallets.  
9.  Use unique passwords, emails, and user names, when registering on websites for new services, airdrops, exchanges, etc. ...

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[aceptamosbitcoin]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

1.2B is less than 0.25% of total market cap on all coins. Believe me, banks have much more than 0.2% thefts on their CC.
I think is more possible somebody to steal my CC than my wallet.

If you are not visiting weird porn sites, you have nothing to worry about

[blockchainmarketus]

if you keep your wallet securely, I think not to worry about hacker. However, your myetherwallet in danger if you log in with pv key. pv key can be stole by spyware. if you log in with pasword with json file, I think it s secure enough.

[lili song]

Around 60% I'm afraid, because when I do transactions using google authenticator. I think is enough.
But I must beware, hacker will try to attack the weakness of the our transactions. They will do until the get they want. So for us, must keep safety we do the transactions.

[bamboylee]

This is my greatest fear, getting my system compromised to hackers that is why i use different unit for all my financial transactions that includes banking and cryptocurrencies. That unit is strictly for crypto and banking, nothing else.

[bandar]

Since there are experts in the house, a question:

I send 10000 tokens from MEW to a new MEW.  I previously got the private key and I'm holding it on 1 (or 2) USB-sticks.
I never use the USB-stick.  Are my funds safe?  In other words: can MEW be hacked without me doing anything online with it?

[Gameroid]

Yes, anyone has afraid but there's two type of hackers, good and bad. If the hacker is bad he/she steal all your wealth and they are the rot of society. Hackers are very powerful nowaday's so better to protect your password. It's good to change your password every month and make 15 characters, symbols and numbers so that they hard to crack your password.

When ever we talk about hackers we think about them to take our money away therefore we always consider them as bad people. In fact we can always see two types of people in every society good and bad in day life hackers are always there and they can get money from your banks accounts and from ATM and similarly hackers are always there in online world where they can hack your online wallet and can get your online currency, for that we use different methods to stop them from hacking.

[SanZoldyck]

it may not be true or it may be true, but protect your wallet in Offline mode because in offline mode bitcoin or ethereum or other altcoins will not be cracked, that's my opinion

[AhmadM]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

yeah, of course. i think everyone in here afraid their assets will be stolen by someone or hacker. you should protect your wallet or account as safe as possible and save your assets in some wallet or accounts i think its a good choice

[yoyolife121]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

yes i am sacred and honestly i don't think we can do something about it i am always afraid of my PC getting an attack i even cover up my web cam that is how-paranoid i am

[BCTBF]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

Yes I'm afraid of hackers because I'm traumatized with hackers. I do not want to see hackers anymore, this information makes me add my computer security so its security is protected and works well. I'll keep being careful to avoid hackers.

[wildflower18]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

yes i am sacred and honestly i don't think we can do something about it i am always afraid of my PC getting an attack i even cover up my web cam that is how-paranoid i am

This is why we need to be careful in every transactions that we do daily. There are many hackers these days better not click unsecured any website. Were afraid at first but let's think of a better solution on how to secured our wallet from hackers.

[aioc]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

This is the headache of crypto currency investors, in fact metherwallet has beeen clone so many times, the security is there but it is still up to the user to protect his account and his investment only bookmarked sites that he frequently visited and do not download anything and of course use a good anti virus.

[Action Gamble]

Recently Bloomberg posted the information that it took hackers less than 10 years to steal over 14% of all existing Bitcoins and Ethereum from the wallets of their holders. The total sum they have stolen is more than $1,2 billion! How to protect yourself from hackers attacks? Are you afraid of this stuff?

Of course i have afraid of hackers, They always seek loopholes in order to steal,  i always try to keep my private key in safe i know that's hard but i hope that I'll never been hacked.

[podrick17]

I'm only afraid if my cryptos or investments are stored in exchange other than that i think it is safe especially if you hold your coin inside a personal wallet like MEW.

[AimHigh]

Everyone was afraid on hackers because of the amount of bitcoin you hold but in that situation always have a solution just like what i research that if you dont want to hack your bitcoin try to store it on offline wallet because if thou they are professionals hacker they cant hack the offline because they cant connect so that some of bitcoiners right now that have a big amount of coint in there wallet they buy a offline wallet.

[godless_toast]

i'm definitely trying to be cautious. i have 2-factor auth on all the exchanges i use, and i try to store coins on my hardware wallet whenever possible. i have a few coins on desktop wallet.

[mhine07]

Definitely yes i am afraid of hackers because they might steal all my coins in my wallet. And i think hackers this days only targetting those sites that are vulnerable for them to enter , and they change some of the sites scripts . Once they change some scripts of the sites they hacked , and if someone login in that particular site that is the time they steal all the information of the users , and that is called phishing. There are many situations where hackers mostly used this kind of hacking to steal all informations of users that clicking their url.

[fileo]

Yes I am afraid. I am not computer engineer either not computer programmer nor IT. To protect my wallet from hackers I try to do more careful now than before. Hopefully hackers will stop doing that kind of activity toward other. Not helpful to the victims ever. I hope they will hack those rich people out there that corrupt others.

[xuan87]

Yes, hackers now has getting more and more clever and creative to deceive people, although I had used the safest wallet and highest security, sometimes I still feel it's not enough, the best way I can do is, always check the correct website and bookmark it, never click any suspicious link especially that come from your email, using authenticator and IP whitelist