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Board Electrum
Re: someone stole my bitcoin from an encrypted electrum wallet
by
Lucius
on 22/11/2017, 11:14:38 UTC
no i dont think anyone has access to my laptop

and it seems only my electrum wallet is compromissed, i had 501 BTC on a different wallet and nothing happened, none of my email accounts facebook, or any other crypto platform seems to be affected.

The last 3 months i travelled 3 times to asia and holand finland austria and some other countries and unforutatly i used public wifi alot without vpn

the weird thing is my electrum wallet was encrypted, so i dont know how the gained access to that cause i dont write down passwords anywhere

Almost there is no day to get at least one user of Electrum wallet who was hacked and lost their BTC.It seems to me that there is something specially targeted and attacking users of Electrum on all operating systems and no matter what type of protection they use.

You probably picked up something when using that public wi-fi,but it is strange that only Electrum is affected.It seems that the only correct and safe way to store BTC is hardware wallet/paper wallet/cold storage.

The conclusion is clear,regardless of the steps that we can take to secure our desktop hot wallets they simply are not safe anymore.