Cryptocurrency Theft

[Dmitry.Vastov]

My ETH funds were stolen and I am sure I didn't give out or handled carelessly the Mnemonic phrase, JSON file, private key nor the key store. Please I want to know ways by which a cryptocurrency wallet could be hacked.

We all know that all the crypto currencies available in the market are decentralised one and there is no such proper authentic regulating body over these crypto currencies who could keep eye over all the activities of these crypto and thus leading to the illegal use of crypto like in selling drugs, explosives, money laundering etc and moreover the crypto transactions does not involve any third party seizure thus no third person is able to track the transaction between the two and this leading to illegal activities with crypto currencies.

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[Rindu_Adelia]

Cryptocurrency theft does have various risks, ranging from high levels of volatility, fears of a bubble or bubble, fraud in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) or initial coin offerings, and theft of tokens stored in a digital wallet.

[Ridzik111]

It's all in my opinion simply. Your entire tokens have been stolen by your conscientious participant in the company. Now wait for your tokens to soon pop up somewhere on the stock exchange. He does not need to choose a good stock exchange, medium enough.

[Azna Azhar]

My ETH funds were stolen and I am sure I didn't give out or handled carelessly the Mnemonic phrase, JSON file, private key nor the key store. Please I want to know ways by which a cryptocurrency wallet could be hacked.

Many things allow your wallet to be hacked, including being careful of phishing sites that allow your wallet's private key to be known by others and you lose everything. Be careful when giving identity, because various ways are done by fraudsters to make a profit.

[SuiMikira]

Maybe your computer virus infected. Try to scan your computer with a good antivirus software to find out.

[plr]

Install metacert chrome extension and bookmark myetherwallet, if it is possible to install a desktop wallet like mycrypto desktop application, it's really depressing if your funds are stolen without knowing why it was stolen better check your browsing history to track what have gone wrong.

[TastyChillySauce00]

My ETH funds were stolen and I am sure I didn't give out or handled carelessly the Mnemonic phrase, JSON file, private key nor the key store. Please I want to know ways by which a cryptocurrency wallet could be hacked.

What are the websites that you visited recently? My suspect is you just became careless and you logged in to a phishing link though you said that you are careful of not giving out your keys, you are still vulnerable to log in to a fake site / phishing site that you aren't aware if you are in a hurry or you just really don't care of that site you are logging in. Like what has been said, you probably downloaded something that contains malware that affected your computer that allowed the intruders to touch your files on your pc.

This is the most likely option, there are many people that have seen movies and have distorted ideas about hackers, without a doubt they know a lot about computers but most of the time they prefer to deceive people than to deceive computers since it is way easier to deceive people, so most likely the OP was sent a phishing link and he accessed it thinking it was a link to the original site.

Well, even those phishing site sometimes can get into google adwords overtaking the position of the real official website to #1 in the google search engine mainpage. I don't really recommend using any kind of web wallet unless you are really aware of what risks you may get exposed to.
Just stick with desktop wallet that has 2fa and everything will be fine, just imagine if you tighten the security earlier you won't lose that money.

[maydna]

according to your story, your account is safe, but the problem is you might have to click something, or you have a virus in your computer which records all information about your account and sends the data to the theft. this can happen if we are not careful and we are click something that we don't know, and I heard that some of my friends lost their tokens too and they tell me that they save their private key and everything without telling anybody. maybe need to reinstall your computer and scan all of your data and make sure that your computer doesn't contain the virus.

[ladaturekova]

Thefts are usual event here, crypto is anonymous and theft is easier to be done here, I hope that there will be any insurance for crypto in future.

[selectorcrypto]

I have heard cases like this, and I'm sorry to hear what happened to you. As far as I know, if you don't give your wallet private key to someone else, but it's hacked because you have clicked on a particular link. Try to remember, on which site you have visited. It could be that one of the consequences of your wallet being hacked.

[vladaziya4]

You need to look yourself and explore the entire structure to choose the right wallet. Always rely on yourself and work your way up. Interesting idea. I think you will succeed if you know the market well and move forward. Do it in a way that makes sense. Everything's going to be OK.

[Falmera]

My ETH funds were stolen and I am sure I didn't give out or handled carelessly the Mnemonic phrase, JSON file, private key nor the key store. Please I want to know ways by which a cryptocurrency wallet could be hacked.

I heared this case already, and it is  scary that eventhough you keep all the necessary things to be private but still you are hacked. Maybe there are sites in which you visited and there the hackers hacked your private informations. It is just my guess.

[boroda074]

Most often your wallets are hacked because of very high activity of the wallet, that is, a lot of authorizations!

[Gurjasmeet]

I think hackers are the most painful person for investors.they apply very different types of methods to stolen the coins of investors. so we should be very careful from the hackers & try to make a very tippical password of our private wallet for security.

[justspare]

Since cryptocurrency is more or less regulated by ourselves and we need to protect our coins ourselves (compared to fiat being protected by governments and their police officers when your money gets stolen, which mostly doesn't bring it back anyway) we need to be really careful because when once its gone, its fully gone.

Nevertheless, the good part of it comes from the multiple layers of protection you could have. You can literally have in stored on a USB like ledger and store it so carefully that even if a person steals your ledger plus your laptop or pc and that person can still not reach your wallet.

Hence, if you are getting a big number of your coins stolen, that kinda means you are not protecting it well enough.

[matico]

Never say never, you may have compromise your security details or give away unknowingly your private key or get attacked by key loggers etc. There are countless way for you to be at risk of losing your funds. Take measures to limit yiur exposure in the future!

[Armstand]

Since cryptocurrency is more or less regulated by ourselves and we need to protect our coins ourselves (compared to fiat being protected by governments and their police officers when your money gets stolen, which mostly doesn't bring it back anyway) we need to be really careful because when once its gone, its fully gone.

Nevertheless, the good part of it comes from the multiple layers of protection you could have. You can literally have in stored on a USB like ledger and store it so carefully that even if a person steals your ledger plus your laptop or pc and that person can still not reach your wallet.

Hence, if you are getting a big number of your coins stolen, that kinda means you are not protecting it well enough.

Theft will be determined by how we were able to protect our keys, it's not like the physical theft that we can see, we will be alone the responsible on our keys so we better keep it and secure the sites we visiting always.

[Psynthax]

Since cryptocurrency is more or less regulated by ourselves and we need to protect our coins ourselves (compared to fiat being protected by governments and their police officers when your money gets stolen, which mostly doesn't bring it back anyway) we need to be really careful because when once its gone, its fully gone.

Nevertheless, the good part of it comes from the multiple layers of protection you could have. You can literally have in stored on a USB like ledger and store it so carefully that even if a person steals your ledger plus your laptop or pc and that person can still not reach your wallet.

Hence, if you are getting a big number of your coins stolen, that kinda means you are not protecting it well enough.

Could be 2 reason though, he's not protecting it well enough or it's just the hacker outsmarted him. Sometimes you are doing your best protecting your crypto and then it dissapear like magic.
sometimes someone got phished without knowing what's even going on

[Caesar-Giulius]

There are a few common possibilities which are phishing websites, airdrop forms and malwares. Even you can’t recall visiting suspicious websites, you might want to check your computer for malwares.

[begnme]

Sorry that you lost your funds. The truth is it can happen to ANYONE. Wallets are not as secure as people think. Don't believe me...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/30/john-mcafees-unhackable-bitfi-wallet-got-hacked-again/