Stolen money from Binance

[afsharj]

dear user's
last night someone Stolen 55000USDT  from our binance account and withdraw it to the unknown address : here is the address

https://etherscan.io/address/0x59d4f90D89e72464BADfB7852cCE771Db3D1B726

this is binance answer :
As per checking, we found the transaction has been confirmed by the blockchain. Due to the anonymity of the blockchain, we are not able to trace down the address.

I also sent an Eamil to the Tether blockchain support and here is the answer :
Thanks for getting back to us.

We feel regrettable to hear about your incident, and we truly understand your feeling and anxiety at this moment. We would like to assist as much as we could.

As per checking, we found the transaction has been confirmed by the blockchain. Due to the anonymity of the blockchain, we are not able to trace down the address.

this email is my personal email and not email that connected to our Binance account, if needs I can send you an email with our Binance email.
Thank you


So I need your help

[Lucius]

First you need to ask yourself how is it possible that someone came up with the opportunity to gain access to your Binance account? Is it phishing (you compromised your log in data on a fake Binance page), or did you keep it in a way that made it available to someone (online or physically)?

What Binance can do is provide information on the IP address from which the transfer was made, but I am afraid that nothing more than that is possible. On the other hand, as far as I know, Tether can freeze funds - so if I don't miss something the address to which hacker sent the funds, can be frozen and the funds returned to the rightful owner - this is a fully centralized cryptocurrency.

https://cryptobriefing.com/tether-can-freeze-your-usdt-39-addresses-containing-millions-blacklisted/

[o_e_l_e_o]

There is nothing anybody here can do to recover your funds. The transaction has almost 4000 confirmations at time of writing and is therefore final and irreversible. You funds are lost, I'm afraid. You can considering opening a police report or similar, but the chances of them being able to do anything useful is incredibly slim.

Since you did not make this transaction then it means your Binance account has been compromised. All you can do now is secure your accounts to ensure this doesn't happen again, or happen to other funds/wallets/accounts you have. You should reset the password on your Binance account and the email account associated with it. You would also do well to enable 2FA on both Binance and your email, as well as any other online exchange accounts or web wallets, to prevent this from happening again in the future. If the password you used on Binance or your email is the same password you used anywhere else, you should change them all. You should also do some thorough scans of your system to see if you are infected with a keylogger or other malware.

[Charles-Tim]

So sorry for your loss, but nothing can be done, there are several cases of hacked accounts like this, and mostly commonly to exchange. Exchanges are often hacked, and binance is not trustworthy. In 2019, many individual binance accounts were hacked, binance agreed to this and promise to strengthen it security, this could be the same case and it can be due to your carelessness as well. I will advice you not to use exchanges that have been hacked before like binance for trading, there are many exchanges that are reputed and safe that has never been hacked before.
But also know that to keep such amount, hardware wallets are the best options, you can easily send your tether to exchanges and make your trade and send your coins back to hardware wallet instead of risky your funds on exchanges. Exchanges are not safe means to store such large amount.

[o_solo_miner]

tether != bitcoin
what about posting that in the relevant altcoin section.

[AthenaBanana]

How did somebody withdraw that fund? it needs access to your email and google-authenticator because when I'm making a withdrawal it needs a code on my authenticator plus it needs to verify your withdrawal through email verification. even dough they got your password on your Binance it still needs your authenticator 🤔

[afsharj]

First you need to ask yourself how is it possible that someone came up with the opportunity to gain access to your Binance account? Is it phishing (you compromised your log in data on a fake Binance page), or did you keep it in a way that made it available to someone (online or physically)?

What Binance can do is provide information on the IP address from which the transfer was made, but I am afraid that nothing more than that is possible. On the other hand, as far as I know, Tether can freeze funds - so if I don't miss something the address to which hacker sent the funds, can be frozen and the funds returned to the rightful owner - this is a fully centralized cryptocurrency.

https://cryptobriefing.com/tether-can-freeze-your-usdt-39-addresses-containing-millions-blacklisted/

We have a local website exchange and we use binance API to buy and sell, seems there was a plugin in our web server which could uploadfile, anf we think they open shell via upload file,so request sent from the IP Address of our website and binance accept it,

[afsharj]

So sorry for your loss, but nothing can be done, there are several cases of hacked accounts like this, and mostly commonly to exchange. Exchanges are often hacked, and binance is not trustworthy. In 2019, many individual binance accounts were hacked, binance agreed to this and promise to strengthen it security, this could be the same case and it can be due to your carelessness as well. I will advice you not to use exchanges that have been hacked before like binance for trading, there are many exchanges that are reputed and safe that has never been hacked before.
But also know that to keep such amount, hardware wallets are the best options, you can easily send your tether to exchanges and make your trade and send your coins back to hardware wallet instead of risky your funds on exchanges. Exchanges are not safe means to store such large amount.

Thank you for your reply , I think in this case it was our fault cause we didn't know about that plugin.it was a lots of money for us,

[livingfree]

Sorry with your loss.

I've recently heard that Tether has been banning/blacklisting Ethereum addresses that's related to scammers and hackers so that's the least that you can do for now. I don't know the procedure but you can contact them for this matter.

Email them @ https://tether.to/

[Akiko]

Are you not adding any other security measure before you can confirm your transaction, like 2fa or email confirmation? binance  have this option so you will know every time that there is unrecognised transaction and you can block it once you see it in your email .

You can do nothing now but you can request to block the address or marked the address as hackers account. No idea how this works but I saw  Something like this has happened before that they can mark it.

[afsharj]

Sorry with your loss.

I've recently heard that Tether has been banning/blacklisting Ethereum addresses that's related to scammers and hackers so that's the least that you can do for now. I don't know the procedure but you can contact them for this matter.

Email them @ https://tether.to/

I Also sent them a message in this is their answer :
Thank you for the response

We are sorry you have fallen victim of a hack. Unfortunately we can not assist you on the matter. Upon checking the TXID of the transactions the transfer is neither sent from us nor to us Tether.to. Please contact the involved parties and ask for assistance.

[afsharj]

Are you not adding any other security measure before you can confirm your transaction, like 2fa or email confirmation? binance  have this option so you will know every time that there is unrecognised transaction and you can block it once you see it in your email .

You can do nothing now but you can request to block the address or marked the address as hackers account. No idea how this works but I saw  Something like this has happened before that they can mark it.

Thank you for your reply , as I mention before it wasn't by binance website and enable 2fa and ... doesn't work , we have used their API ,
as you said I am looking for the way to at least block the transaction but still Not find the way

[livingfree]

Sorry with your loss.

I've recently heard that Tether has been banning/blacklisting Ethereum addresses that's related to scammers and hackers so that's the least that you can do for now. I don't know the procedure but you can contact them for this matter.

Email them @ https://tether.to/

I Also sent them a message in this is their answer :
Thank you for the response

We are sorry you have fallen victim of a hack. Unfortunately we can not assist you on the matter. Upon checking the TXID of the transactions the transfer is neither sent from us nor to us Tether.to. Please contact the involved parties and ask for assistance.

Oh my.

That's disappointing. I don't know what's next for this. If they can't blacklist the address, what should be the next step that you must be doing? to track where the amount will be sent? sorry about that mate.

[KaratX]

This is very weird, to withdraw from binance account you need 2FA Code and also a code sent into your private email address, I'm wondering how this is possible and I can't think of anything than phishing scheme, unless someone you living with have access to your phone

[afsharj]

This is very weird, to withdraw from binance account you need 2FA Code and also a code sent into your private email address, I'm wondering how this is possible and I can't think of anything than phishing scheme, unless someone you living with have access to your phone

no sir , those things you said is about using their website or application not API
check here for more information :
https://github.com/binance-exchange/binance-official-api-docs/blob/master/rest-api.md

[afsharj]

Sorry with your loss.

I've recently heard that Tether has been banning/blacklisting Ethereum addresses that's related to scammers and hackers so that's the least that you can do for now. I don't know the procedure but you can contact them for this matter.

Email them @ https://tether.to/

I Also sent them a message in this is their answer :
Thank you for the response

We are sorry you have fallen victim of a hack. Unfortunately we can not assist you on the matter. Upon checking the TXID of the transactions the transfer is neither sent from us nor to us Tether.to. Please contact the involved parties and ask for assistance.

Oh my.

That's disappointing. I don't know what's next for this. If they can't blacklist the address, what should be the next step that you must be doing? to track where the amount will be sent? sorry about that mate.

Thank you for your sympathy , yes the only way is to track the transaction untill it arrive to knowing exchange or tradewebsite and find clues,

[TheUltraElite]

This is a big amount of course, so even if we say it would never ease the pain of the OP, still sorry for your loss.

However this mistake should help carve your importance for securing your stuff. Start by keeping seperate passwords for all accounts, very important. Change your email and Binance account passwords as soon as you can. If you are using similar passwords anywhere else, change them too.

Also install some well known antivirus software if you are using Windows because I dont expect you to be using Linux in which things would be different already.

Once again do attempt to contact local authorities if possible and report about the theft. Crypto related thefts are still a grey area and not possible to be tracked so you have secure yourself.

[pealr12]

Im sorry for your loss bro i hope binance will be able to fix the problem even though the transaction is already confirmed. Im just wondering how can someone send your funds if you enabled 2fa and other options to counter hacker from stealing funds.

[livingfree]

Oh my.

That's disappointing. I don't know what's next for this. If they can't blacklist the address, what should be the next step that you must be doing? to track where the amount will be sent? sorry about that mate.

Thank you for your sympathy , yes the only way is to track the transaction untill it arrive to knowing exchange or tradewebsite and find clues,

I hope that you'll track that guy as it's Tether.

I don't understand why they didn't allow you to grant the request of blacklisting the address so that hacker won't even be able to use the money that he stole. They should have taken your case not that quick but thoroughly looked at.

[carlfebz2]

This is a big amount of course, so even if we say it would never ease the pain of the OP, still sorry for your loss.

However this mistake should help carve your importance for securing your stuff. Start by keeping seperate passwords for all accounts, very important. Change your email and Binance account passwords as soon as you can. If you are using similar passwords anywhere else, change them too.

Also install some well known antivirus software if you are using Windows because I dont expect you to be using Linux in which things would be different already.

Once again do attempt to contact local authorities if possible and report about the theft. Crypto related thefts are still a grey area and not possible to be tracked so you have secure yourself.

People do only learn when they do lost big sums of money which they should really be concern of security stuffs earlier rather than making up changes when its too late.

Platforms or any person on this world wont really able to help because once the transactions has confirmed then theres no turning back.

All he had to do is to move on because even if he do trace it out and he should be fast and attentive on where possible exchange those tether would be deposited.

If lucky then it would be blacklisted on such exchange if not then theres nothing you can do if that scammer able to convert it out.