Share Your Bitcoin Hack Stories: Help Us Educate and Protect!

[riverdip]

Calling all Bitcoin enthusiasts! I'm writing articles on safeguarding your precious BTC from hacks. If you've been a victim, please share your experiences below. Your stories will empower others to protect their investments.

 Let's strengthen our crypto community together!

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[adaseb]

The only hack that I ran into was back in 2015 or so when there were new alt coin added every day and I ended up downloading some new wallet which had malware. It was on a mining rig so nothing to steal but it made me be more cautious about downloading software from people who are newbies on this forum.

Another was basically keeping coins on exchanges and these exchanges got hacked or went bankrupt. Had a few of those throughout the years. Basically get a hardware wallet if you want to be safe.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

I know it's not exactly what you asked but I have never had my bitcoin holdings hacked because soon after I learned about it I bought a hardware wallet and since then I have never had any problems. However, over the years I have read stories of people who saved them online and got hacked (as well as people who saved seeds online).

[mk4]

Here's the trick, just search Google using this search queries:

site:bitcointalk.org i got hacked
site:bitcointalk.org my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my crypto got stolen

Those alone should give you ample amounts of content to write about.

[Kakmakr]

I think the most common hack was the "browser hijacking" ...where the hacker downloaded some software that detected when I copy/pasted Bitcoin addresses and then hijacked the clipboard content, by replacing it with his/her Bitcoin address.

The lesson that I learned from that was to double check the address that I paste in a sender wallet field to see if it is the actual address that I copied as the destination. 

It is something simple.... but it can happen to anyone, if you are in a hurry and you do not double check your destination address.   

[lovesmayfamilis]

I have never come across news that would say that Bitcoin can be broken. Maybe the OP worded his question wrong. There are a lot of such stories of people who have Bitcoin in their assets, their devices, or their inattention when saving seed phrases, as well as their inattentive attitude during transactions when the stealer is working. I believe that if you sort the stories of people who lost their Bitcoins, they will be somewhat similar. So, OP, I don't think you'll hear anything new here.
For there to be fewer such stories each time, accuracy is required, as is distrust of all centralized places where they supposedly provide reliable storage. Be your own master of your funds.

[Obari]

Calling all Bitcoin enthusiasts! I'm writing articles on safeguarding your precious BTC from hacks. If you've been a victim, please share your experiences below. Your stories will empower others to protect their investments.

 Let's strengthen our crypto community together!

Don't click on phising links or any random link from an exchange especially from P2P and I'm saying  this because I've been a victim and I was scammed of a $150 loan from shashan.
Also avoid following prompts from random emails claiming to be what they are not and in cases where you get an email you're not sure of, the best thing to do is contact the service and customer support of same company  to get confirmation  from there and if they have a social media account, it is wise you try to reach out to them and other users.

In all, don't click on random link and always make sure to use a 2 Factor authorization for every transaction.

[_act_]

I have not been hacked before and I do not think that would be possible because I do not take security as a joke.

Do not safe your seed phrase online
Avoid clicking on ads
Cold wallets are the most secure
Check and recheck bitcoin address before sending it to someone that wants to send you bitcoin or before sending bitcoin to someone
Using passphrase can help against attacks that are not online, but if you forget the passphrase, your coins would be lost
Read about how airdrops and KYC can lead to hack
Avoiding phishing attack. Read about it.
Do not let the public to know that you have bitcoin
Use 2FA if possible
Avoid saving password online

I have never come across news that would say that Bitcoin can be broken. Maybe the OP worded his question wrong.

This is not what OP is talking about, he is talking about individual, that if their wallet have gotten hacked before, that how was it hacked and the experience we have about hack. Probably the OP is working on an article to help educate other people.

[Strongkored]

I experienced being hacked when I used an online wallet as a place to store my Bitcoins and altcoins. In the early days of the crypto world, there were several online wallets that provided storage for not only Bitcoin but also several other coins, and this was often the choice because it was easier without having to download and also because of a lack of knowledge regarding the importance of private keys.
It was a lesson that online wallets are not a safe place to store our Bitcoins, either for the long term or for the short term because two possibilities can happen, the account is hacked because the level of security that we use is weak or the online wallet is down due to being hacked so that all the assets of the wallet user experience the same thing and are lost without being able to be recovered because the wallet developer is not responsible.

[Plaguedeath]

I never get hacked, but this is what I do:

1. Learn about privacy: Tor network, temporary email, secondary phone number, Linux and never share your KYC to any site.
2. Never join any airdrop, bounty or giveaway that will ask you to sign up or anything that make you share your identity.
3. Install adblock.
4. Never click any unknown site especially the site is still using http.
5. Only use no KYC P2P or decentralized exchange.
6. Never show to anyone about you wealth in social medias and real life.
7. Stay lowkey.

[The Cryptovator]

I never encountered any crypto hack yet, but one of my friend's wallets was hacked though it wasn't Bitcoin. His metamask wallet has been compromised and lost BNB & USDT. From his investigations, he had connected his wallet to an untrusted site that drained his entire wallet. So before connecting your wallet to any site make sure it's trusted.

For me, I always try to secure my holding with a non-custodial wallet and don't connect my wallet to any untrusted sites. If I really need something and connect my wallet anywhere, I just create a new wallet and connect. I care about my private keys and seed phrases. For Bitcoin, I use a Ledger hardware wallet that is quite impossible to hack without compromising my seed phrase. Remember, don't click any popups from any sites with greedy offers. That might hack your device and wallet so easily.

[traderethereum]

I even forgot if I ever got hacked or not but I didn't expect it to happen to me.
It's very painful to have an account or wallet hacked because we will lose the coins we bought and are just waiting for the time to sell.
But I suggest not keepingkeeping your coins on the exchange but keeping them in your wallet.
Be careful about providing your personal documents to any site and check everything before you give them to the site.

[Queentoshi]

Your stories will empower others to protect their investments.

 Let's strengthen our crypto community together!

Stories about how people have gotten hacked will be helpful to the people who have a strong security consciousness and are very interested i9n not becoming victims themselves, not the people who are less concerned about their security and careless about keeping their bitcoins safe. Unfortunately, no matter how much of these stories are shared and the lessons that the victims learnt, these categories of people will read the stories and forget about it in a few days if not a few hours. They never learn from people's experience and because of that they still become victims in the future.

[_act_]

I never encountered any crypto hack yet, but one of my friend's wallets was hacked though it wasn't Bitcoin. His metamask wallet has been compromised and lost BNB & USDT. From his investigations, he had connected his wallet to an untrusted site that drained his entire wallet. So before connecting your wallet to any site make sure it's trusted.

What I use to do is that I have a separate wallet for the connection because I do not trust any site. It is not what I do often, I have only done it two times before. I recently bought wsm, on their telegram page I asked a question and people started adding me to scam me in a way they want me to think that they are helping me with the question. Thanks for this forum, maybe I would have be scammed. Someone among them even sent me a link on telegram that is the real link to the wsm, I copied it and paste it on a word editor and checked the URL but it was a scam link. I do not know how that happened, but they are just waiting their time.

[kryptqnick]

My story is about Ethereum, not Bitcoin, but I think it's still relevant because something very similar could happen to a person who's holding Bitcoin, especially to a newbie. It's from my early days when I was largely ignorant of the risks, wallet differences and other important matters. I bought 1 Ethereum at a very cheap price (below $20) and chose an online wallet to store it. That wallet was very popular back in the days, but it was a centralized platform, a custodial wallet. Everything was good at first, but then Ethereum rapidly grew in price, and so many got interested in withdrawing their coins to sell them for fiat. That centralized wallet platform declared that they were hacked, but that they'd do partial reimbursements of funds. I filled in my application and got 60% of my Ethereum back, which I immediately withdrew to a non-custodial wallet. In the end, taking into account Ethereum's growth, it was still a very profitable investment for me, so I got lucky. But I never got the rest, and many people didn't get any reimbursement. The platform went silent, stopped responding to any messages, and many consider it an exit scam.
I remember there was a collective action against them, a big cybercrime victim report to some US authorities. I filled in my information there as well, but it never led to anything. I think it was to the US because the owner of that online platform was a US citizen, but I'm not sure. I don't think it led to anything in the end.
It's just a simple personal story of why non-custodial wallets matter, why being the sole owner of access to your funds matters. Even if a platform has a good reputation now, it doesn't mean it won't eventually perform an exit scam, mismanage funds or be a victim of a strong attack from which they won't recover.

[Lida93]

Airdrops are one of those ways people can get their wallet hacked and drained within a twinkle of an eye. We have to  be careful on how we chase airdrop projects or avoid them if necessary.

Some of those will require you to have a limited amount of a certain cryptocurrency in the wallet you are to use for connection to be eligible to receive the airdrop on their given date, and you're prone to a possible draining of your wallet if it's a scam project.

 If you must  for such, you should always use a whole new wallet to be on the safe side if you can afford to lose the specific amount of cryptocurrency required for such airdrop eligibility if you eventually get hacked and wallet drained, you won't have to worry as you would have if it were to be your main coins holding wallet.

[sokani]

I have never been hacked but I've received phishing link attempt on multiple occasions. There was a time I was receiving series of a well crafted multimedia message service from an unknown number with a tap, instructing me to "tap download" to view message.  Whenever the message comes I delete it, it was so annoying and it got to a point to that I was receiving atleast one of such message every week. This gave me serious concern that I had to look for a way to permanently block the number from sending me messages. Another phishing attempt is via email, that I have won a prize to a competition I never participated.

[KiaKia]

I have been hacked before, and that's because I used a crap crypto wallet called coinomi wallet, some one managed to get into my wallet and moved out doge coin that I have gathered for years through 2016 and 2017, I am talking millions of Doge coin, and also my Bitcoin, it took me out for weeks and I got back on my feet, what I couldn't find out till date was...

1. At the time I hunt for many Airdrops so I have connected the wallet to many platforms.

2. I suspect the iancoleman website too because I insert my recovery seed into this website.

3. Maybe Coinomi wallet ripped me off, because the wallet isn't non-custodial open source wallet, later I read that some people also lost assets using coinomi wallet.

Till this day I don't know how the wallet got compromised but I learned from my mistake, I started learning the differences between crypto wallets, which to trust and which to stay away from.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Calling all Bitcoin enthusiasts! I'm writing articles on safeguarding your precious BTC from hacks. If you've been a victim, please share your experiences below. Your stories will empower others to protect their investments.

 Let's strengthen our crypto community together!

Being hack is not a good experience one should brag about because it's something that has taught one a lesson the hard way and it involve loosing hard earned amount of money in bitcoin, nevertheless, we can still bring in our own experience out to serve as motivation to other and for them to learn from, am never a victim of hack and never see myself in such mess in the future because am always at alert when it comes to security measures, but I've seen some people who lost their bitcoin due to hack on exchanges or from their non custodial wallet, once this is done, all asset are not recoverable.

[m2017]

Here's the trick, just search Google using this search queries:

site:bitcointalk.org i got hacked
site:bitcointalk.org my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my bitcoin got stolen
site:reddit.com my crypto got stolen

Those alone should give you ample amounts of content to write about.

So why use such drastic measures?

Maybe OP wants to hear these stories first hand.

Not everyone shares stories of bicoin hacking in online communities. Most often, because people are ashamed to tell such stories. All the same, this is in a sense a fail, most often made by mistake of the bitcoin user himself. We (people) always willingly share success stories, but we try to keep silent about failure stories.

For example, I know one such story that happened to a friend of a friend of mine and therefore not all the details are known to me. All in all, he lost several hundred dollars. After the incident, he immediately changed the laptop to an old old laptop, with the hope that this device is so old and has not been used since the Internet was clean and safe. In this way, he wanted to avoid modern viruses, which may not be on such an old device. I don't know if it helped him in the end.

If anything, I told this in confidence and the hero of my little story didn't agree that these events were reflected in OP's article.