Got hacked, lost 11 BTC

[soulcity]

My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do

[oktana]

Talked to my wife.  She tried to install a voice changer software yesterday from a link on twitter and it didn't install.  This is a windows 11 PC.  I see something new called WingFtpServer as a startup program. That has to be it. C'est la vie   

     

I empathize with you my friend. I thought I read wrongly when you said 11 BTC, and I’m still in shock of what’s lost. But I must commend your strength and ability to bear this. At my position in life, I can’t imagine losing such amount of money. You’re a strong man. Even though it’s gone, I’ll still mention that when you have your crypto wallet and money in it, you have to avoid installing apps and visiting unknown websites. This tip and many more that other forum members will give you will guard you for tomorrow.

[digaran]

My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do

I have absolutely nothing against you, just asked you to stop posting anything until you can prove ownership, even then you can't actually prove you were hacked unless you contact local authorities to investigate, therefore I call bs on your claim, especially when you mention bitcoin core.

Still I have nothing against you, but do us a favor and do that,  now for time being lock this topic, we don't want more useless comments.

[Z-tight]

If op were the holder of our coins, then the stolen funds of the would be returned back to the victim and wallets of these hackers would be immediately blocked

Is this meant to be an advert for your shitcoin, so confiscating and reversing transactions is meant to be an advert for 'your' coin, how ridiculous, if you can block and return funds, you can also do the same for any transaction and to any address, and anyone who doesn't want to lose their funds has to stay away from shitcoins like yours.

BTC is decentralized and censorship resistant, if you have your funds in your self custodial wallet, nobody can block or censor you; that is why we use this network and not yours, take your advert somewhere else.

[ZAINmalik75]

That's a huge amount you have lost. I can't imagine your feelings, but all I can say for now is better luck next time, and do not hesitate to do anything that you can against that hacker because giving up on something will not bring it back anyway. I know that by not giving up, the chances of getting funds back are also near zero, but doing something rather than doing nothing is far better. And you must have some bravery, as you were holding 11 BTC all at one place.

If I were at your place, I would not hesitate to make 11 or 22 different wallets and then keep 1 or 0.5 BTC in them accordingly. I do realise that the creation and management of 11 or 22 wallets is not an easy task, but it is worth the money.
And you should provide a transaction detail here, so we can verify. If you already provided it in some reply, then I suggest you edit the post and provide the hash or your address there. So new readers find it easy to verify your statements. And if you are sure that you did not do anything vulnerable on your device or shared your password or key with anyone, then I don't have any good solutions or advice for you, but these are the only reasons that would have happened.

[tabas]

This is truly sad. That's a lot of money and can be the type of fortune that everyone desires. The website you've given is even an unknown one and this usually the case from the people that got hacked. They have visited random websites and probably downloaded something and they're warned by their computer about malicious file is gonna be downloaded and yet proceeded the process. It is unlikely that you did nothing and then you got hacked, there must be some websites, apps or anything that you have unnoticed did.

[coolcoinz]

I think the website this hack came from was

voice  dot  testyteste dot com

So, when I open this I get an immediate block and notification from my AV software.
Site en.softaipro.fun blocked, detected botnet.
What were you looking for at that site?

I often tell people that they shouldn't use the computer where they store their coins for anything dangerous, like opening emails, installing unknown software, downloading torrents, unpacking files, connecting thumb drives and other external drives, and so on.

Edit: I missed the message where you said your wife was fooling around with a voice changer. Sorry for your loss. I just hope as many people as possible see this thread and learn from it.
At the very least guys, if you don't want to buy a hardware wallet or you don't want a paper wallet, or a cold storage in the form of wallet file on an an offline device, make sure you have a decent anti virus software and you keep your PC clean. No suspicious sites, no porn, no unofficial software, you know what I'm talking about.

[salad daging]

My PC is running back up right now. I'll post the signed message after it finishes and I figure out how to do it. If you feel you need to report this post, by all means, do what you feel need to do

If you don't know how to sign messages maybe this can help you. How to sign a message?!

It's regrettable to lose 11 BTC that's a huge amount we thought, but why not choose a cold wallet as suggested by others as it's not worth such a huge asset but keeping it in a hot wallet which might be vulnerable to hacker attacks when you experience its negligence.

It's just a lesson because it's impossible to get coins back, so in the future, be more careful.

Hope you don't get depressed.

[philipma1957]

In any case, the bastards are the hackers

If op were the holder of our coins, then the stolen funds of the would be returned back to the victim and wallets of these hackers would be immediately blocked

Sucks.

This really sucks

Wow that really sucks.

I completely agree with all of you. BTC - is irreversible sucks.

since the op has yet to clearly prove this loss

I think that op is worried about his privacy. Most likely he will not reveal his wallet address. I don’t see any other reasons why op gives out so little information

yeah I was being playful with you as I don’t think you created the thread to make your reversibility point.

Btc is not irreversible it is stated to be irreversible but it can be changed as yours was.

btc could also say all stale wallets with no withdrawals will be considered abandoned after fifty years.

A lot more can be done to fuck with it.

as for reversing txs when eth reversed the large hack it fucked up my eth wallet and dispite a lot of effort to rebuild and recover those coins are lost to me 2eth.

So if I lose two coins of your coin due to theft do I send you an email recover my coins.

how easy is recovery.

Btw reversibility sucks if you sell something and the buy lies to get a refund.

[Ultegra134]

The OP has yet to provide a signed message from the supposed addresses that were hacked, and even if he does, it's still not 100% valid proof that the money was indeed stolen, as it can be a transaction conducted by himself. With that being said, I have my doubts regarding the validity of this story. Why would anyone have 11 Bitcoins on his Windows 11 laptop, which can be accessed by other people in their household? Anyone with such an amount of money would simply buy a hardware wallet for $100 or at least have isolated his wallet on a Linux OS.

I'm sorry, but it sounds like an episode on things that never happened. If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry for your loss; no one deserves it, even if they neglected their safety.

[philipma1957]

The OP has yet to provide a signed message from the supposed addresses that were hacked, and even if he does, it's still not 100% valid proof that the money was indeed stolen, as it can be a transaction conducted by himself. With that being said, I have my doubts regarding the validity of this story. Why would anyone have 11 Bitcoins on his Windows 11 laptop, which can be accessed by other people in their household? Anyone with such an amount of money would simply buy a hardware wallet for $100 or at least have isolated his wallet on a Linux OS.

I'm sorry but it sounds like an episode in things that never happened, if I'm wrong, then I'm sorry for your loss, no one deserves it, even if they neglected their safety.

if that is a true story and the 11 btc are more than half  his btc he asked for it and he got it.

[mvdheuvel1983]

Sorry for the loss. But why have huge amount of coins on an online wallet? The safest wallets are offline/cold and multisig wallets. If you know you can not run your node with cold wallets or with multisig, do not have huge amount of coins on it.

This is such bad news.
Those who save their bitcoins in an online wallet is dancing tango with the devils. There is always a pains end to it. A thousand and one times it has been echoed that your best bet is to save your bitcoin in a multisignature or cold storage wallet.

I hope that it is not only you who have learned from this experience but others who are making the same mistake as you currently can learn and preventing the impending disaster.

[_BlackStar]

Let's be honest - this is bad news. If this does happen to you – I assure you that no one here is happy about this other than the hacker. I don't know what caused your wallet to be hacked and I'm not sure how it happened although I have gone through each of your replies to gather some information.

Also - everyone here hopes you'll get your hacked bitcoins back - but that's very unlikely because only hackers can do that. Don't give up and rise up with whatever means you have now - we only learn from your mistakes. The only thing I regret about you is - you share a PC with other people where there are 11 btc stored in your online wallet. 11 btc is right now equivalent to $416,350 ^{[$37,850 per btc]} - of course this is a big amount to lose.

[Silberman]

Talked to my wife.  She tried to install a voice changer software yesterday from a link on twitter and it didn't install.  This is a windows 11 PC.  I see something new called WingFtpServer as a startup program. That has to be it. C'est la vie   

     

Since you now know the reason behind the hack there is not much to do except correct the mistakes that led to that money being lost, probably the easiest way to solve this is to use a hardware wallet from now on as it is relatively inexpensive compared to the size of your assets, now another way to deal with this is to have a PC completely dedicated to storing your wallets and that is offline all the time, with a Linux OS installed instead of windows.

[darkangel11]

Do I believe in this story? Yes, because it's very likely to happen given that OP allows his wife to download and install whatever she wants. Giving access to the machine that stores your coins to anyone is a bad idea. Allowing them to download and install software is a bad idea times two. Not dividing a large amount like 11 BTC into 2 or 3 wallets is a bad idea times three.
Is this story true? Who knows. Maybe it's meant to scare people away from bitcoin? Maybe it's written in hope of getting attention from the media, since they like to write articles about such things. If it's true, you can get your own piece in the news one day. Just wait until your stolen money is worth a couple million $ and they'll call you for an interview.

[Bitstar_coin]

@OP I trust by now your pc must have been done with the upgrade for you to get the sign message done and share the wallet with members of the forum for further investigation.
If you have no clue how to do that, someone already post a link above for guidance. It will make your claim more genuine if we can all see the hacked wallet. You should also get in touch with your local authority for proper investigation. This is no small amount and I sympathise with you if this is the case.

[Shenanigan]

Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address

And what are you waiting for? Tell us the hacker's btc address. And we will send feedback to all blockchain-explorers that this is the address of scammers. Explorers will mark it as a scam address. It will be difficult for hackers to withdraw btc

[rachael9385]

I don't care if the story is true or not but it is not a good endeavor to allow people to mess with our most important stuffs, if this story is clear that means the op might be so careless interns of making things right by giving everyone there parts by telling them what to do and what not to do.
If you are really the man of the house your wife will definitely give you the kind of respect you want, so I believe that if in at the first place you told your wife not to mess up with your PC or the device you used in signing the BTC wallet, your wife would have stay far from it.
Now you see why it is not good to keep things just anyhow, although I feel so sad for this because it not far for the next halving, your 11 BTC would have yield good returns for you.

[panganib999]

Perhaps it's got something to do with you connecting your wallet over the internet. Mere logging in on sites and connecting wallets are already a recipe for disaster, and I'm guessing the attack had happened a while ago if not even years from before, just biding its time before striking. I wanna send out my condolences and all that stuff, since losing your money, let alone from a hacker is a massive gut punch. But don't beat yourself up to it bud, the one thing that you should always hold on to is your life and sanity. As long as you got these with you, you'd be able to get your 11 bitcoins back one way or another, trust me.

Couldn't be your wife since you told us she'd never know how to work her way into a bitcoin wallet anyway, but if you're sharing computers it could be something she clicked on the internet while she was surfing.

[Shenanigan]

mods, close the topic, OP is troll

no proofs, no signed messages