A friend of me got hacked and lost 3000waves

[Altcoinanalytics]

Hello.
A friend of me got hacked and lost 3k waves.
The Waves was send to this address :
3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66
What should he do now?
Does anyone know this address?
Best wishes and thanks.

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[blue Snow]

how does it happen? which wallet your friend used?. If wallet exchange you can contact exchange support. if non-custodial wallet nothing to do, this means the hacker owns your friend private key, you can't take it back 3000 waves, you have to contact the local  police.

[Jackl87]

I'm sorry for your friend, but now that the waves have left his wallet and are already on a wallet that is not controlled by himself he can do nothing to get his waves back.
When you look at that adress though you can see that it is very active with a transaction going on almost every minute. Did your friend lease his wave to a node or something to earn some interest or something?
It could also be a exchange adress because that amount of transactions normally don't happen on a wallet of a private user.

[Altcoinanalytics]

how does it happen? which wallet your friend used?. If wallet exchange you can contact exchange support. if non-custodial wallet nothing to do, this means the hacker owns your friend private key, you can't take it back 3000 waves, you have to contact the local  police.

He restored his account with his seed online.
He probably used a fake side.
At the same day someone canceled the leasing sold his 3k waves in btc and send the btc to the address...
Thank you

[Lagduf]

He can do nothing as the transaction in the blockchain is permanent and it's an irreversible dude. It looks like that will be related to the hacker's address or exchange site address.
I think that someone knows his private key or access to the his wallet.

you have to contact the local  police.

Local police will not help you a lot.

[masterrex]

Hello.
A friend of me got hacked and lost 3k waves.
The Waves was send to this address :
3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66
What should he do now?
Does anyone know this address?
Best wishes and thanks.

Thats very unfortunate incident, thats why each and every one of us crypto users should be aware that anyone can be a victim of hacking and the best thing to do is to make our wallet security updated and if possible use a multi-layered security level, dont just settle on just a single password, use 2Fa such as code via email or mobile number and of course secure those private keys in your position.

[rhomelmabini]

What should he do now?
Does anyone know this address?
Best wishes and thanks.

If your friend know that address then he should pursue to get the WAVES back to him. I think the address was likely associated to an exchange or from a whale address since there are too many assets on that address. I doubt that your friend will ever get back that one but at least try some ways like how did the WAVES sent on that address.

[blue Snow]

He restored his account with his seed online.

bad, look like your friend got hacked by phishing website.

At the same day someone canceled the leasing sold his 3k waves in btc and send the btc to the address...
Thank you

did you know the btc address?. I thing you only guess.

Local police will not help you a lot.

yes I know and what's wrong with reporting the police?,

[YOSHIE]

Hello.
A friend of me got hacked and lost 3k waves.
The Waves was send to this address :
3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66

I saw the address that the OP mentioned, it seems that in this forum nobody uses that address.

However, it is very difficult, to find out a real hacker to detect.
Looks like your friend's Waves coin has been melted into some other coins.

https://wavesexplorer.com/address/3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66/tx



It's quite difficult to find out the real hackers, because they have 1000 other addresses to transfer coins to.

[DoublerHunter]

^ It looks like OP was got hack by a fake exchange, we don't know who is the owner of that wallet but I saw that there are tons of transactions there per see.
Try to have a look at the TX that I provided in this post, https://wavesblockexplorer.com/address/3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66/tx.
If that is an exchange, can you tell us what exchange site that your friend sending that amount of Wave that you have said? Nevertheless, here what I say, sorry for your friend's loss but that is the unrecoverable amount that your friend lost, the crypto transaction is irreversible, your friend needs to accept the fact and avoid that it will happen again in the future.

[bitbollo]

how does it happen? which wallet your friend used?. If wallet exchange you can contact exchange support. if non-custodial wallet nothing to do, this means the hacker owns your friend private key, you can't take it back 3000 waves, you have to contact the local  police.

He restored his account with his seed online.
He probably used a fake side.
At the same day someone canceled the leasing sold his 3k waves in btc and send the btc to the address...
Thank you

without having a specific website it is impossible to get more information. can you get the url ?
It's full of service ready to steal your private seed (leasing to a node isn't the issue) and this is why it's always a must use only trusted site... probably this one is actually stealing private seeds since there are other transactions
 

[Altcoinsintel]

Local police will not help you a lot.

I disagree. This is internet crime and should be reported. Depending on the country, the authorities will have department for electronic crime and fraud, which will be responsible to find clues, if there will be any. However, I agree they will not help a lot unless the scam or hack reaches millions of dollars in total.

[Flor1982]

It is sad to say that your friend's Waves coins will never return unless he knows the hacker personally, as maybe the hacker knows where he hid his wallet key. Also, he may have made Crypto transactions in internet cafes or some public computers with a keylogger installed. So charge this to your experience so that it will never happen again.

[Samayuki]

Tell your friend to move on and don't expect anyone to help him out, he can lose more money again trying to pursue this lost waves coins, some can even private message you that they can help you get your coins back, this is another trick from scammers, it's better to move on and learn from your mistake

[bitbollo]

Local police will not help you a lot.

I disagree. This is internet crime and should be reported. Depending on the country, the authorities will have department for electronic crime and fraud, which will be responsible to find clues, if there will be any. However, I agree they will not help a lot unless the scam or hack reaches millions of dollars in total.

ok maybe a crime report should be open I agree with you.
but an address is a useless clue and for an amount of money like this it's very hard to keep track and can be exchanged or mixed very easily.
there are hundreds of similar loss each year, just a small percentage have been caught but only for some mistakes made when exchanging coins or creating fake website.

[TopTort777]

The best thing your friend could do is to forget he had this wallet and move. Btw, remind he to warn everyone who sent waves to his wallet not to send anything him anymore, as the hacker would immediately withdraw it also. Second advice - force your friend to pass internet security courses if he is so inattentive.

[stadus]

This is a bad scenario, your friend already lost his Waves due to phishing, it also happened on my wallet before, my MEW was hack because I was too careless on checking the website and I did not notice I already visited a phishing site.

What did I do, I just forget and learn from that mistake, that hacker would never return the coin they stolen, that's for sure.

[Altcoinanalytics]

Hello.
A friend of me got hacked and lost 3k waves.
The Waves was send to this address :
3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66

I saw the address that the OP mentioned, it seems that in this forum nobody uses that address.

However, it is very difficult, to find out a real hacker to detect.
Looks like your friend's Waves coin has been melted into some other coins.

https://wavesexplorer.com/address/3PGS9W5aZ4kdBFJJ9jxmgjLW8qfqu1b3Y66/tx

https://zizihub.com/792746.jpg

It's quite difficult to find out the real hackers, because they have 1000 other addresses to transfer coins to.

Thanks for all your help!!!
I am not a expert.
He allow me to publish his address.(the friend who lost 3k waves most likely to a Phishing site)
He already deleted the browser history and he don't know the name of the site.
His address:
3PNvozLKBujaEsxuJFkgwnvebDoZjboztod

Again thanks

[Altcoinanalytics]

You will need to give more information on how the hack took place if it is a personal wallet or an exchange so as to know which advice to give. If it your personal wallet then it may be hard to track and recover but if it an exchange then contact the exchange support team they can help you out.

It's a personal wallet
Thanks

[bitbollo]

https://wavesblockexplorer.com/address/3PHkAhVB2qXfjxZdBKVGTYKNH6YrQSWJB6a/assets
for what I can see, it seems that this balance isn't completely empty and there are some assets inside... and 15.20604478 waves
I think it should be better he moves these funds immediately so he can save this small 0,5% of funds not too much but it seems inside the wallet... another suggestion for your friend: adopt a cold wallet for the next time!