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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Just had account hacked. Please help :S.
by
mk4
on 28/03/2019, 15:18:19 UTC
This was essentially my alt coin portfolio. Was too lazy to make cold storage for all the separate coins. Paid for that laziness dearly. Value was in the 5 figure range. Not a life changing amount I would say, but given another bull run it could have been... I thought I was soo smart DCA'ing into everything as it crashed..... I am very patient and was well positioned for the next run I believe Sad
Did not have 2FA, Fucked up Sad. Attacker gained access to email and reset my exchange password. Pretty sure that makes me screwed.

Lesson learned. Unfortunately, some people really need to learn the hard way, and today was your time to do so. Don't be so careless and lazy next time, especially when talking about significant amounts of money.

The exchange was Kraken, which is in the process of requiring 2fa but not there yet. I got pwned just in time. I noticed about an hour after the attack that my funds were gone. there were notification emails sent by the exchange but for some reason the push notifications for my email have not been working and I did not notice them... The attacker attempted to delete the emails from the exchange but they are in my 'deleted folder'
Regardless if an exchange has 2fa or not, leaving funds on an exchange is still a very irresponsible thing to do.

I am wary of posting details such as the bitcoin address and IP address in case I tip off the guy that I'm following this and what I know... What do you guys think in this case?
This won't do that much unfortunately. Hacker might have been using a proxy/vpn in the first place.