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Re: Is it illegal for someone to hack my BTC wallet?
by
Dreamchaser21
on 23/01/2018, 08:40:19 UTC
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.