Quote from: Dreamchaser21 on January 23, 2018, 08:40:19 AM

Quote from: salayog01999 on January 23, 2018, 07:17:13 AM

Quote from: cjmoles on May 29, 2016, 09:01:35 AM

I'm not clear on this one point. If somebody got a hold of my private key and moved funds from an address that I claimed on the ledger, is that against the law? At what point could that be considered a crime? For example, if they hacked into my machine and stolen the private key; if they sniped the pk while snooping on a public access connection; brute forced the pk into existence; or just plane snapped a shot of my qr code over my shoulder....ect In which of those examples could I pursue prosecution for the theft of my coin?

If he/she doesn't have any permission coming from you it is called stealing and it is illegal but you don't have enough evidence to prove that he/she stole the bitcoin from you that's why make sure you have a high security in your account.

There's no law about cryptocurrency yet but in real world its illegal specially when you don't allow that person to do it but I think its hard to bring it back since this is a decentralized and its hard to find that person. There's a lot of phishing site that can easily get your private key so you better be careful if you don't want to loose your money easily.

Thief is a thief what ever name you called it hacker or what ever. once get something unauthorized to somebody it is considered thievery.but since crypto currency is anonymous, decentralized,P2P and unregulated it is difficult to seek asylum to the law if in case somebody will hack your wallet but I think in this case it is not about the crypto currency, but its all about your personal belongings in there were cyber law would come in and protect individual under the law.