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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Laptop Stolen with Bitcoin Wallet
by
fogsan
on 14/01/2018, 01:26:20 UTC
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?
There is no imminent danger if you do not keep wallet's password in the stolen PC. However, if it takes time, the possibility of decrypting the password will be high, so you need to access the wallet soon and move it to another wallet.