I was hacked (1170btc stolen) - 500btc max BOUNTY

[Amitabh S]

A remote possibility is that its someone from Dropbox itself.

[The Avenger]

Attempted a BTC tag.

You owe me $2 so far  

Nice If we could mark the transactions "coins stolen from klee", might put any innocent buyers off.

It's only when the culprits try to convert to fiat they are likely to get nailed.

[bitcodo]

From nxtforum.org

Damelon:

I have just spoken by video to klee on Skype.

He has confirmed the messages earlier were from him.

He confirms that all his Nxt and all his Bitcoin have been taken.

He acknowledges that his security measures were not as good as they should be:

1. passes kept in a plaintext file
2. On a dropbox account that was not repassworded after heartbleed.
3. Possibility of open wifi at Vienna conference (long time ago, but a possibility, as his home wifi is passworded).
4. There were also irregulatities with his FB group page, where someone could suddenly post admin level posts.
5. Apparently his other accounts have not been compromised (mail, forum etc).

I would like to ask everyone when commenting to take into account the situation here. Feel free to comment, but if it descends into personal attacks, that will have consequences, as everyone knows.

Seems like the total losses amount to $ 1,000,000.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/07/facebook-takes-down-bitcoin-stealing.html

But dates may not be right

[StarenseN]

Paper wallet anyone?

[ajareselde]

A remote possibility is that its someone from Dropbox itself.

I wouldnt go so far in guessing that happened, more likely he picked some trojan/keylogger.
Srsly, i dont see the logic in even having that amount of money in one place , let alone in an online wallet.
This just prooves my point that local wallet client + wallet.dat on a removable drive is the best option.

Hope you get your funds back

[Chef Ramsay]

This just makes me want to puke.  Xapo is looking like a solid option more and more everyday for those that want to be their own cold storage.

[spazzdla]

Wow... that's a freaking theft...  The wallet was online I assume?

Electrum - dropbox was compromised (with plain txt for the pwd, I know I know..)

You are shitting me .. you kept >1000BTC and you had a txt file with your password on a dropbox.

Very clever.


I would love to have 1BTC .... I am working hard on BTC projects and I have like 0.00000000BTC ...

You had >1000BTC nice income ... you should share some with others to gain a luck

But luck have got nothing to do when you keep your password in a plain txt file.



I wish I can track those thieves but perhaps this will be not possible for me.


Kind regards.

PM me and I'll make that 1 millibtc.

[spazzdla]

A remote possibility is that its someone from Dropbox itself.

for 1100 BTC.. this is quite possible.

[bigasic]

I know its been said, but wow, thats a tough hit. Sorry for the loss, I hope you have some luck and are able to find them. That said, you had your password on DB not encrypted for that many coins? I know you know your mistake and its been a huge lesson for you.. But, is this your only coin? If not, you should be protecting asap..

[HarryT1923]

really sorry to hear this. that is devastating.

[FeedbackLoop]

This just makes me want to puke.   Xapo is looking like a solid option more and more everyday for those that want to be their own cold storage.

But this wasn't cold storage.

People, maybe we should leave this thread just for posts that will help OP for now? He must be obviously in a very intense situation and trying to monitor this thread.

[wheresmycoin]

Dear HEADHUNTERS,

43% of any btc I will be able to get back IF you find the identity of the thief!

If the whole amount will be returned to me (1170BTC) that would be 500BTC.

https://blockchain.info/nl/address/1GwNLwoCQiobJzmURSAq54vH4BYjFkwaxr

FIND HIM!!!

hope you manage to get them back.

is this stolen pile all your btc stash or just some

[ibminer]

A remote possibility is that its someone from Dropbox itself.

for 1100 BTC.. this is quite possible.

Not intending to lecture here but this is why you do not store this type of information on an online dropbox account, or any online account for that matter. Almost anything that allows you to drop your files online has multiple unknown people behind it that may be able to access your information if they really wanted to. Some staff may have a way to query the entire database of files to search specifically for wallet.dat files, who knows
I am sure there is a DB expert somewhere at dropbox that, with a little inside effort, could pull it off. Although I would be going more with someone who knows klee, in this situation.

No amount of privacy statements or internal controls is going to stop certain types of people making XX,XXX/year from grabbing your wallet worth 700K, especially when they have a chance at remaining anonymous after stealing it.

The more exposure bitcoin has, the more these types of things could increase. In general, cloud-based services scare me for multiple reasons.

Stop storing sensitive information online!  

[achimsmile]

You had >1000BTC nice income ... you should share some with others to gain a luck

He donated millions of Nxt to the Nxt community, And 1M Nxt for brain preservation research: https://twitter.com/kLee1977/status/438639867929833472

And 500BTC bounty is a lot as well. He should have gained enough luck...

[spazzdla]

Is it possible that Dropbox could be liable for this?

If it was an inside job I cannot see how not.

[Lauda]

Is it possible that Dropbox could be liable for this?

It's possible but not necessary. My Dropbox password is weak as well, but my details were on G. Drive. I've moved all files to HDDs/SDDs and off-line.
Sorry to hear this OP, hopefully someone can do something.

[jonald_fyookball]

wow...sucks !

if you have more coins that are NOT in cold storage yet,
feel free to PM me and I can help you set up
cold storage with electrum.  I have a pretty
airtight system.

[coins101]

Has the exchange been in contact with you?

Can we get the IP address from the exchange?

Thanks.

[bitcoin_bagholder]

Ouch to the method used for password storage.

Klee, I hope you recover funds and track down the thief. I understand bter is being cooperative.

[ashish12]

HUGE MONEY