My Trustwallet hacked, and $43,000 BTC was stolen

[tread93]

Hello,

About three months ago, at the same time as the bad news about the security issue of Trust Wallet on iPhone, I got hacked on my Android phone, and all the money I had was stolen! I am not newbie, and I have been using Trust Wallet for more than four years, even with more significant amounts without any problem, a topic that confused me:

I installed the trust wallet app in the Samsung Secure folder with only V2ray VPN and no other app (the Samsung Secure folder is a sandbox environment with an additional security layer guaranteed by Samsung Knox); also, Kaspersky and Avast were enabled on my device! I don't understand how I got hacked!! I am sure that no one had my key phrases! I didn't connect my wallet to anything, any airdrop, any NFT ...

The strange point is that the hacker or thief still hasn't cashed out after three months. Even if he/she does, I can't do anything, but it's strange to me why he/she doesn't.

Sadly, All the wealth I had built up over the years is gone, and I don't know what to do.

OP, I am so sorry that this happened. Its devastating for something like this to happen, but if life has taught me anything is that everything happens for a reason and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You can re-build. You will re-build. As long as you believe that one day you will have more than you lost and never give up trying to get it all back and then some & do it with perseverance than nothing can stop you. I know this is a tough pill to swallow, but when times are good you thank God, & in turn when times are bad you thank God. Even now, thank God for this. He may have been protecting you from a purchase that could have resulted in a life ending incident or caused severe harm, we never know why these things happen but if you have this attitude of gratefulness in any circumstance then I believe that nothing but good things are in store for your future. God bless!

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Hello,

About three months ago, at the same time as the bad news about the security issue of Trust Wallet on iPhone, I got hacked on my Android phone, and all the money I had was stolen! I am not newbie, and I have been using Trust Wallet for more than four years, even with more significant amounts without any problem, a topic that confused me:

I installed the trust wallet app in the Samsung Secure folder with only V2ray VPN and no other app (the Samsung Secure folder is a sandbox environment with an additional security layer guaranteed by Samsung Knox); also, Kaspersky and Avast were enabled on my device! I don't understand how I got hacked!! I am sure that no one had my key phrases! I didn't connect my wallet to anything, any airdrop, any NFT ...

The strange point is that the hacker or thief still hasn't cashed out after three months. Even if he/she does, I can't do anything, but it's strange to me why he/she doesn't.

Sadly, All the wealth I had built up over the years is gone, and I don't know what to do.

What do you exactly mean by the scammer hasn't cashed out even after three months, do you mean to say that the funds are still in your wallet waiting to be withdrawn by the scammer?, or that the funds were withdrawn by the scammer to another wallet, but he or she is yet to spend it by moving it to another wallet?, if the later be the case, then the scammer sure have cashed out your funds since it's no longer on your wallet and in your custody.

But if the former be the case, then that clearly means that you've not been hacked, and you can still take possession of your fund.

Overall, your story seems to me like you are a complete crypto newbie, contrary to your claim of not being a newbie, maybe you might want consider sharing with us the transaction hash generated when the scammer withdrawed the funds out of your wallet, not as if doing this will help recover back your funds, but just to prove that you are not lying to the community here.
Up to you though.

[yudi09]

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He has not provided the BTC address that contain that much amount. I do not know what is the reason to hide it as we are not asking any private keys but the public bitcoin address 

I really doubt OP story and will only believe to some extent if he share the bitcoin address that had this amount stored on it. If this is a false story, i also do not get what could be the purpose of it 

This means that you and I can draw our own conclusions about the truth of the OP's story, which doesn't need to be opened again because other people can also judge it.
Trust Wallet is not a good wallet to use amidst the many open source wallets that can be used because Trust Wallet is a closed source wallet that users often complain about incident after incident.
From the OP's story and the opinions of everyone present here it should be an important lesson for you and me that there is no benefit in making up stories if there is no truth to them.

[franky1]

the OP should look at when the funds moved from their address to the hackers address. and look at the phone activity and what got downloaded or which emails/websites they viewed around the time of the hack to narrow down how it happened

looking at my junk mail of my disposable email i use to sign up to crap sites, i see lots of scammers mailing scams about trust wallet, trying to tempt people to pass info to scammers..

even if someone had a official wallet, stored in a safe encrypted area of phone storage can still get scammed/hacked by being redirected to a site or conversation where they are asked to reveal info like a passphrase or download an update(trojan).

other things can happen like letting someone else use your phone, and while pretending to make a call/text on your phone they are actually logging into your wallet and moving funds

blockchains are secure against funds moving from an address on the blockchain, by not allowing funds to move without a signed transaction using the keys. but that does not stop things happening where the source of the key becomes open to attack. no matter how secure a wallet is. you need to be careful about who accesses the device/person that holds the key/phrase/wallet