Hi thomas thanks fr the reply. But still they need my password to transfer money? So how they did it mate?
To add to Thomas's "Lessons Learnt":
- If you're going to invest large sums of money into something, at least learn how it works.
You should not be putting your coins in anything you don't fully understand.
The Electrum "seed" is just 16 bytes of random data (shown to you as 12 words). This random data is the "key" to all of your bitcoins.
In other words. Anyone who knows those 12 words can spend your bitcoins.
The password you set when you create a wallet does the following:
- It takes the 16 bytes of random data, aka your "key" ("seed") and it encrypts it. Encryption means that "If you don't put the password in correctly, no one can look at your random 16 byte "key.""
- This means that normally, your computer has a bunch of data that, when joined with your password, will recreate those 12 words for you.
HOWEVER.
You took those 12 words and you left them on your e-mail account.
Anyone who knows those words can spend your bitcoins.
Someone hacked your e-mail, and saw your seed. (Let me guess: did you save it as a Draft and Write something like "Electrum Seed: ...")
In fact, I'm sure there was some way to know your e-mail address, and that it was an e-mail address was connected to you, and that you had a lot of BTC.
There's another lesson learned:
- Never tell anyone how much BTC you own. You're painting a target on your back.
Take the time to learn, or learn the hard way. That's how life works.
Sorry you had to learn the hard way.
