Quote from: bjbear123 on January 06, 2018, 08:49:41 PM

Quote from: shamzblueworld on January 06, 2018, 12:08:51 PM

My laptop got stolen a few hours ago. It had all my data including bitcoin too.
Fortunately I had the seeds with me and I have now installed Electrum on my work machine and recovered the wallet with those keys.
It also asked for a password and I have gone with a new one. The wallet is still Synchronizing.

Now my question is, are my bitcoins safe now? Do I need to do anything else? The stolen laptop has the electrum in it, what else should I do to make sure that my bitcoins are secure?

No your funds are not safe mate because the recovery words just duplicate the old wallet. You need to physically create a new wallet and transfer all funds over, do it before the thief does, Good luck !

Yes you should be very fast so you get your coins / tokens before the thies gets. I see again how important to take full backups regularly especially for us, crypto currency investors. otherwise it can be a real catastrophe.