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January 28, 2018, 05:46:38 PM |
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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?
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tsaroz
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People should use safer browsing habit and along with that should diversify their bitcoin and altcoin holdings in as many places as possible.
Exchanges, online wallets and hot wallets in gambling sites.
If you are not using it regularly, you can just export the private key in encrypted form and remove every trace of its existence.
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weborsha
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January 28, 2018, 05:56:47 PM |
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You know, hackers have stollen billions of dollars from simple debit cards we all hold. It has been our reality since the very first plastic card was emitted by a bank. So it is no surprise that the same things happen to crypto wallets.
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Igor17Krik
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January 28, 2018, 06:05:37 PM |
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We must adhere to the elementary rules how not to become a target for hackers. We can protect ourselves from them if we are careful!
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Julunguul
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January 28, 2018, 06:13:39 PM |
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honestly yes, but for now it looks like some hackers are just targetting the markets with a low trust or just a new market
i never heard about hacking to private wallet, most of it hacking at the exchanges.
that's why i just deposit with a low amount and withdrawall all in if i know i would use it for a long time
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krhnrhn
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January 28, 2018, 06:17:43 PM |
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Yes. I am scare always illegal acts and in my opinion this is normal result!
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natsu01
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January 28, 2018, 06:18:51 PM |
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Yes ! I really afraid of hackers because only in a short period of time all your earnings will be all gone. So we must be very strict when it comes of signing in our accounts in any malicious documents or sites.
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sensimilia
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January 28, 2018, 06:25:42 PM |
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While you know it can happen I am not really afraid of it, more like wary and doing things with caution. Which isn't a bad thing.
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Suzukigsxr250
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January 28, 2018, 06:35:02 PM |
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Yea of course, but people needs to care what links they click what sites they are loggin in and what information they are giving to sites in social media.
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January 28, 2018, 06:37:10 PM |
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I'm afraid, but unfortunately I will not be able to protect myself in any way. To hack is not a problem - it would be that hacking and there would be a desire. We now live in an era that, in principle, the issue of digital security is very relevant. And unfortunately I have a couple of friends who are well versed in computers so to speak. And they argue that with a huge desire, you can hack all
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olushakes
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January 28, 2018, 06:41:51 PM |
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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?
The truth is it raises a lot of concern on how secure the entire crypto market is. Today when I lose my ATM card, I know its going to take some beyond the average individual to hack into my account or even with a call or a text message to my banker, the account would be restricted for any fund to go out and if it is moved to another account, it can be traced and reversed. But here, browsing some sites alone can make you vulnerable, downloading the wrong, copying and pasting, revealing your private key, leaving fund on exchange sites among others. And yes I am scared. |
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Wipro
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January 28, 2018, 06:51:55 PM |
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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 type hacking many times happening on the online wallets and trading site. Some hash power rental sites also been hacked some of the time. If you know the last hack on nice hash server you will not keep your fund on the any online wallet which does not give the private key access to you. Wallet like Coinbase should not be used at anytime if you want to save your fund long time. I suggest to have the funds on the desktop wallets like electrum or multibit which is more safer to you and private key secured. |
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January 28, 2018, 07:01:51 PM |
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Yes, I am afraid as everybody should be. No one is safe 100%, but I am trying to protect myself by being careful browsing, not using any hacked software and not opening any suspicious mail. This combine with antivirus and firewall are the easiest, but most important thinks.
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January 28, 2018, 07:03:03 PM |
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Yep, it's definitely something to be cautious of. Get a hard wallet like a Ledger Nano S. A hard wallet makes it nearly impossible for hackers to get your coins to the point where you could use it with a malware infected computer and still be safe. The only thing you need to worry about is social engineering. If they are able to convince you to hit the confirm button on your ledger then there's really not much you can do.
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January 28, 2018, 07:06:04 PM |
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Yes. And I believe that those who are not worrying about cybercrime are too naive.
Stay safe, stay paranoid...
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Taki
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January 28, 2018, 07:10:38 PM |
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Of course I have fear to my founds which are waiting for bitcoin go back to 20000$ and I will be running and call all possible support, but as I know if founds hacked there is no opportunity to bring it back.
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Dmitriy_crypto
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January 28, 2018, 07:12:32 PM |
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Yes, of course everyone is afraid of hackers. Why should be not? They can easy attack your wallet, to gather the needed information and steal all your money, they can use your ID's and start spending money, and there will always be hackers, because the world is build from the computer guys. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, you just hope not to cross your path with bad ones.
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January 28, 2018, 07:19:11 PM |
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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?
Only way to protect is t be super careful. Have private keys of as much as possible crypto you have. Have as much as possible of this crypto in cold storage. Have a separate phone for 2FA and hot wallets. And another phone to use for calls and whatever. Keep at least coins in wallets on your computer you work on and try to keep it virus and malware free. Also make sure to have your cold wallets secure and multiplied. And the last thing make sure that someone trustful have access to them and know how to open them if something happen to you. Answer on your question is so complex actually. |
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jin_dv
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January 28, 2018, 07:19:42 PM |
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Hello! Yes, I'm afraid of hackers, and fear more from the fact that if you want,you can hack anything and gain. But still, I think we need to be very careful with those links that it discovers.
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easypeasy
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January 28, 2018, 07:24:31 PM |
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i bought 10k of a coin to run a mn at roughly 40c each, few days later the coined mooned to 20x (now steady at 10x) my buy in price, now im scared to even start the wallet on my pc to stake them never mind set up the mn
Im taking a break to educate myself more about pc security etc before i do anything with them, while at the same time im losing about $70 a day passive income due to not running the mn somehow someone needs to come up with a better solution to the security of the coins as crypto has zero chance of going mainstream if everyone who holds coins has also got to be a cyber security exppert as well!
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