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Re: Release the hounds : 45.8 BTC stolen - electrum-wallet.com CRIMINAL sticky pls
by
Vishnu.Reang
on 03/08/2017, 03:44:36 UTC
OK... It took me a few minutes of research to find out what happened exactly. So this guy installed a trojan from this site:

http://electrum-wallet.com/

instead of installing the electrum wallet from this website:

https://electrum.org/

A very very costly mistake instead. Also, just a few days back, Theymos had instructed us not to transfer the BTCs in very large blocks. He ignored that warning also.

Note that sending all of your BTC in a single transaction is likely to be harmful to your privacy; if you care about this, you might want to send it in several smaller transactions to several different addresses on the new wallet.