MY BLOCKCHAIN WALLET WAS STOLEN 0.39070099 BTC !!!

[Lucius]

Hello Dear Friends
I was stolen and my funds go to this address 1EvVR9JcUGvP2S9bHKvs7EzkoeXR12NTyS where i make high security by my Personal Email and Two-Step Verification and Backup Phrase . what i do now ??

Unfortunately now you can only cry and wonder why you keep so much BTC on online wallet. That you were aware of the risk posed by online wallets then you would install at least some desktop wallet (for free), or invest $50 in hardware wallet.

Possible ways someone hacked your account is via phishing (you click on fake blockchain site), or you download some malware/keylogger and all your passwords (including one for e-mail) has become compromised.

i setup anew windows and maked anew blockchain wallet and I hope from any one here to find a solution and send me the stolen fund

My advice to you is to stop use the online wallets, have you not learned anything from this? As most have said, only the one who stole your funds can return them, but it's something that doesn't happen in crypto world.

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[osama888]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

[NotATether]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

Use Electrum wallet and create a watching-only wallet on your desktop https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-watch-only-wallet/. That will let you give people your bitcoin addresses without risk of malware stealing your private keys or seed phrases, i.e. your bitcoins. Watching only wallet does not contain the actual bitcoins (the private keys), only the addresses.

Then get a computer that doesn't have any internet connection and create a cold storage wallet with Electrum. Since it has no internet access it can keep the private keys (your bitcoins) there. https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

And get electrum from https://www.electrum.org

[mk4]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

[1] https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s

[Twentyonepaylots]

I did a search about the address 1EvVR9JcUGvP2S9bHKvs7EzkoeXR12NTyS on bitcoinwhoiswho.com and it seems that the scammer had stolen around 2.6 BTC/about 23,355 USD.

https://bitcoinwhoswho.com/address/1EvVR9JcUGvP2S9bHKvs7EzkoeXR12NTyS

This address can be reported as scam on bitcoinwhosiwho.com,but additional evidence is needed,like screenshots,type of scam,etc.Perhaps OP can provide this info and report their address as scam.The stolen bitcoins most likely will never get returned,but other people should be aware about this scam.

It's a good idear to mark the address as scam, aswell as going to your local police and create a complaint. However, don't get your hopes up: the odds of actually getting your BTC back are very small (allmost nonexistant). Only if the scammer is caught and your local police is informed and connects this information to your legal complaint, you have a small chance of getting a small part of your funds back. If the thief mixes, coinjoins or exchanges to a privacy coin using an on-the-fly swap-site, the police won't even be able to follow the fund's trace, and if they ever catch the guy, odds are they'll never be able to pinpoint you as a victim.

Marking the address sounds a good idea however the scammer can easily transfer it to other address, a new one and just send it to another using btc mixers. The odds of recovering the funds is pretty impossible, and I doubt a police complaint would do so much for you coz I don't know how the police are going to locate the suspect for just using the address, they need to speak first with the cyber crime operatives for that.

Like it has been said before: it's more important NOT to trust your pc and learn the (expensive) lesson this ordeal has taught you. You should consider your pc to be infected, if you're not an expert there is no way of knowing if the thief installed other malware, disabled certain services, stole private info,... My best advice would be to start from scratch: clean OS, virusscanner, firewall + hardware wallet. You should never install any illegal or unknown program, script, plugin,.. on a PC that's being used for financial transactions (including crypto wallets), you should keep the attack vector as small as possible by only installing the binaries you truely need, and you should keep everything patched (and remove any app that's no longer actively supported).

Random hacking like this is probably because of unsafe and unsecured web browsing, this is a form of malware attack that has been downloaded to your device without you noticing it. This maybe not a good time to give you hopes anymore, that was embarrassing but you have to deal with it and move on afterwards.

[Lasky366]

well we are sorry if you lose your money because it's already been hacked or stolen by someone . but I am curious to know where you actually stored your pharse key & 2FA?Was that inside your computer /mobile device?

[South Park]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

Use Electrum wallet and create a watching-only wallet on your desktop https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-watch-only-wallet/. That will let you give people your bitcoin addresses without risk of malware stealing your private keys or seed phrases, i.e. your bitcoins. Watching only wallet does not contain the actual bitcoins (the private keys), only the addresses.

Then get a computer that doesn't have any internet connection and create a cold storage wallet with Electrum. Since it has no internet access it can keep the private keys (your bitcoins) there. https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

And get electrum from https://www.electrum.org

I will also recommend to anyone that wants to install a bitcoin wallet in a desktop computer to forget about Windows and install one of the many flavors of Linux, Windows is simply too insecure and no matter how good you are you are never going to be able to properly secure it, however for anyone that wants to be absolutely sure that he's securing his coins properly then the best option by far is to buy a hardware wallet, they are fairly inexpensive, easy to set up and one of the fastest ways to secure your coins.

[NotATether]

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

Just curious, after how much bitcoins should you consider storing them in a hardware wallet?

[mocacinno]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

[1] https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s

this ^^

You got cleaned up once, and yet again you're going for a desktop wallet... A decent hardware wallet starts somewhere in the $70 range, maybe $140 if you go for a ledger nano X... That's nothing compared to the loss you suffered today. Learn from your mistakes, don't repeat them.

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Just curious, after how much bitcoins should you consider storing them in a hardware wallet?

My first one was a ledger HW.1, it was dirt cheap (like 20 euro's if i remember correctly). I bought it when i was holding only a couple hundred bucks worth of BTC.
You should consider a hardware wallet as an investment if you're serious about holding crypto. It doesn't matter if you only hold $10 worth of BTC right now, if you're planning on holding more than $500 at any point in the future, you might aswell spend the $70 and buy a ledger or a trezor, it'll come in handy when your portfolio grows.

[osama888]

well we are sorry if you lose your money because it's already been hacked or stolen by someone . but I am curious to know where you actually stored your pharse key & 2FA?Was that inside your computer /mobile device?

2FA on my mobile

[Fragment00]

I'm sorry to say but it's almost certain you'll never see those funds again, I'd recommend never publicising any information about crypto you own online or even the smallest insignificant details like the amount you have, also never ever save your pass phrase or backup phrases on any of your devices, paper is always the best and most safest - I also highly recommend investing in hardware wallets such as a ledger or trezor, I have a trezor personally and it's amazing but like anything, it could still be compromised through many means via the internet and your PC but the odds of this happening are substantially low if you're sensible and security conscious, I do sympathise with your loss and I'm sure you will come to terms to it soon enough.

[mk4]

Just curious, after how much bitcoins should you consider storing them in a hardware wallet?

Completely up to you. Ask yourself, when is spending $70 on a hardware wallet worth it? Personally, the first time I purchase my Ledger Nano S was when I had $500 worth of bitcoin. It wasn't that much, but I was bullish, paranoid, and I knew I was holding for a long time, so I immediately got one.

[rdbase]

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

[1] https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s

this ^^

You got cleaned up once, and yet again you're going for a desktop wallet... A decent hardware wallet starts somewhere in the $70 range, maybe $140 if you go for a ledger nano X... That's nothing compared to the loss you suffered today. Learn from your mistakes, don't repeat them.

--snip--
Just curious, after how much bitcoins should you consider storing them in a hardware wallet?

My first one was a ledger HW.1, it was dirt cheap (like 20 euro's if i remember correctly). I bought it when i was holding only a couple hundred bucks worth of BTC.
You should consider a hardware wallet as an investment if you're serious about holding crypto. It doesn't matter if you only hold $10 worth of BTC right now, if you're planning on holding more than $500 at any point in the future, you might aswell spend the $70 and buy a ledger or a trezor, it'll come in handy when your portfolio grows.

Or he could just get one for free if he doesnt want to spend even that much to safe keep his cryptocurrency.
I know not as good as the ones you listed but still it is a starting point at the very least.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244832.0
Free raffle for a keepkey still some spots left to enter.

[Mahanton]

please please help me

Help takes time and work.  First you ahve to learn about hacking blockchain.  I can do if for you.  I ahve done this many time before. 

You can find keys to the thief's address here: https://keys.lol/bitcoin/343555098444626868081028077297552883310705979920252801066797023362226037029 

I somewhat love this kind of sarcastic response.hmmm
@OP if you do believe that your account is secure and this thing happened? then pretty sure that you have leaked out those important account information towards that wallet.
Need a help? No one can help you out because once it had been transferred to another wallet then theres no way you can get it back.

[mk4]

Or he could just get one for free if he doesnt want to spend even that much to safe keep his cryptocurrency.
I know not as good as the ones you listed but still it is a starting point at the very least.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244832.0
Free raffle for a keepkey still some spots left to enter.

It's not like OP is guaranteed to win the raffle, right? Assuming OP wants to buy bitcoin again soon, it'd probably be best to just spend the measly $70 rather than OP hoping that he actually wins the 1/100 chance.

[KrisAlex18]

I am sorry but I think there's no way to get back the money you have lost, once bitcoin or other cryptocurrency has been sent you cannot get it back because it is not reversible. I've been hacked once and scammed once so I made these things as my lesson because I tried the unfamiliar websites that offer good investment, it offers to make your deposit double for only 24 hours so I became interested because I want to make more money as soon as possible. I've made a wrong thing because I did not check the website first or read some reviews about it so I get scammed.

I hope the thing that happened to you will serve also as a lesson, there are so many things that could happen in a simple action always be careful in this virtual world where hackers and scammers are always there.

[Chris!]

It really sucks to see that people still use this sketchy service. Web wallets have never and will never be secure.

Use this as an expensive learning opportunity and get into more secure ways if storing crypto. I'd highly recommend paper wallets and not hardware wallets unless you need to spend your bitcoins all the time.

[Anonylz]

Or he could just get one for free if he doesnt want to spend even that much to safe keep his cryptocurrency.
I know not as good as the ones you listed but still it is a starting point at the very least.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244832.0
Free raffle for a keepkey still some spots left to enter.

It's not like OP is guaranteed to win the raffle, right? Assuming OP wants to buy bitcoin again soon, it'd probably be best to just spend the measly $70 rather than OP hoping that he actually wins the 1/100 chance.

There should not be any debate at all about it, now OP has learned from the hard way, if he had spared just few dollars to buy a hardware wallet he would have been spared from this pain and disappointment,  only a miracle can help him recover his funds back which I doubt will happen,
0.3btc stolen compare to $70 to buy a hardware wallet which would have been better!
Now he is aware of taken security seriously, @op sorry you lose your funds but i hope you will take advice and go buy a hardware wallet.

[mdzahed134]

What's the hell going it’s very sad. From my friend something another way 2800$ stolen in blockchain wallet. Someone try to make a deal with BTC against USDT, this guy sent first and received without any problem even though this transaction checked by blockchain explorer than my friend also sent him. But after 5 mins his wallet is empty. It’s lost so will never possible to recover.            

[Lucius]

Use Electrum wallet and create a watching-only wallet on your desktop...
Then get a computer that doesn't have any internet connection and create a cold storage wallet with Electrum. Since it has no internet access it can keep the private keys (your bitcoins) there. https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html

You have actually reversed the order in which a cold wallet should be made. First you need to create a standard wallet on airgapped device, and then use master public key to create watch-only wallet on online device.

what is the best secure wallet can i setup on desktop computer ?

If you're going to hold that much amount of bitcoin, mate just spend the $70 and go buy a cheap Ledger Nano S[1]. It's a small price to pay for your security. This is definitely something you don't want to cheap out on.

Even if one uses a hardware wallet, it does not mean that they will be safe from hacking, and by that I mean those users who save their backup in a completely inappropriate way (cloud, email, on PC desktop ...), and those who think that seed words are something that is normal to type around on any site that is asking for that.

Tell someone "buy a hardware wallet and be safe", actually is only a partial advice, you also need to give him advice on how to use it safely.